The 2020 Durham County Community Health Assessment is now available on the website for the Partnership for Healthy Durham. The 2020 Durham County health priorities are affordable housing, access to health care and insurance, poverty, mental health, obesity, diabetes and food access. These, plus an overarching priority of promoting racial equity, will be the focuses of the Partnership for Healthy Durham for the next three years.

Several D-CHIPP faculty affiliates contributed to this year's assessment including Irene Felsman, assistant professor, and Michelle Hartman, assistant dean, ABSN Program, who went door-to-door in Durham neighborhoods collecting data. Those from DUSON who contributed to chapters of the assessment include: Donna Biederman, associate professor and D-CHIPP director ("4.02- Homelessness and Housing"), Callan Loflin, clinical research coordinator ("5.01- Physical Activity" and "6.04-Obesity"), Iris Padilla, assistant professor, ("6.02-Diabetes"), and Jacqueline Nikpour, PhD'21 and Heather O'Donohue, ABSN'20, ("8.02- Infectious Diseases (not sexually transmitted)/TB"). 

Special thanks to DUSON faculty, staff and now alumni who assisted in the completion of the Community Health Assessment via community canvassing, data collection and chapter writing.