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The 2018-2020 picture for Duke University Department of Population Health Sciences is a 38-PI network with 58 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (45% of slots across 32 PIs; 32 labels), Economics and Econometrics as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels), and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life as the leading topic (6% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Qingyi Wei (28.2 weighted works; Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research). The clearest collaboration lines are Matthew L. Maciejewski and Virginia Wang (13 shared works, weight 10.3); Qingyi Wei and Sheng Luo (18 shared works, weight 9.9). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 36.4, around Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nephrology, led by Matthew L. Maciejewski, Adrian F. Hernandez, Virginia Wang.