Over the next several years, the US will become home to nearly 70,000 Bhutanese refugees who have been driven out of their country, with up to 10,000 people who will likely resettle in North Carolina. These facts, and a recent trip to Nepal by Duke faculty members, laid the foundation for an emerging partnership between the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.

In an effort to explore research and service opportunities, DGHI's John Bartlett, Suzanne Shanahan of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Fiona Terry, humanitarian leader and Kenan Practitioner-in-Residence in fall 2009, visited a refugee camp in the town of Damak in southeastern Nepal in April 2010.