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Emily Smith is an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine/surgery at Duke University and at the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI). During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also became known as the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist through her social media outlets which reached 10 million people during 2020-2021.

Before joining the faculty at Duke University, Dr. Smith spent four years at Baylor University in the department of public health and was a research scholar at DGHI for two years. Dr. Smith received her PhD in epidemiology from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill and a MSPH from the University of South Carolina.

Emily has been married to her pastor-husband for twenty years and they have two fan ...more

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Neighboring was on the ballot - and won!

a large sign on the side of a building that says love your neighbor

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Like many of you, I watched the Midterm election results roll in on Tuesday night. I was prepared for ‘neighboring’ and ‘hope’ to win with the American people pushing back on empire-like-politics. I was hopeful that ‘neighboring’ would barely win. But, I wasn’t prepared for the wave of hope that happened. It caught me by surprise and made me cry several time

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The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 (The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, #3)

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