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D-CHIPP Director's Note
Greetings! The change of season from spring to summer may not be recognizable in the South, but there are other transitions we do want to recognize.
First, and foremost, we want to say thank you to outgoing Dean Marion Broome who is retiring at the end of June. We are so very grateful for her leadership and vision for community health becoming a strategic pillar at DUSON. D-CHIPP was launched during Dean Broome's tenure. Her constant promotion increased D-CHIPP's visibility and importance within the DUSON and Duke communities. Dean Broome will be remembered as a key D-CHIPP founder and supporter of the community health movement at DUSON. We wish Dean Broome a very happy retirement and look forward to our continued work under incoming Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos on July 1st.
As we plan on transitioning back to our DUSON offices on campus, Durham Housing Authority (DHA) is preparing McDougald Terrace residents to transition to meaningful employment through education and skills training. You can read more about the DHA Jobs Plus Program in this newsletter issue.
Finally, two of our D-CHIPP faculty affiliates are transitioning into new positions. Read below about Drs. Schenita Randolph and Devon Noonan and their recent promotion and appointment into more prominent leadership roles.
We wish you all a healthy and safe summer. We will send out the next D-CHIPP Newsletter as we transition into the fall.
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Center for Nursing Research Update
RESPECT NC
On June 18th, RESPECT NC hosted a financial readiness workshop for community partners and researchers. This event was planned and coordinated in partnership with UNC-CH NC TRaCs Institute and the Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CaSE) Program. Dr. Lori Carter-Evans, Associate Professor at UNC's Gillings School of Public Health and Director of the CaSE program, and her colleague MaryBeth Grewe led the workshop. DUSON's Christin Daniels and Robbin Thomas presented about the pre- and post-award steps to take for both community partners and researchers. You can view the workshop here.
RESEARCH RACIAL JUSTICE SUB-TASK FORCE
The Research Racial Justice Task Force is committed to raising awareness of racial justice and equity at each component of the research lifecycle. For the past six months, 14 Task Force members have worked on a stakeholder-informed comprehensive implementation plan to ensure equity in research practices at DUSON.
The Task Force continues to work toward its goals of:
1. Generating new knowledge on interventions to prevent health disparities,
2. Developing strategies to engage community members,
3. Embedding a racial equity lens throughout the research lifecycle, and
4. Building anti-racist and health equity processes into research systems.
The Research Racial Justice Task Force has accomplished the following:
1. Members of Research Racial Justice Task Force and additional DUSON faculty and staff submitted an abstract for the 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I), co-hosted by AcademyHealth and National Institutes of Health (NIH), to share efforts regarding Breaking Research Barriers: Conversations to Ensure Racial Justice and Equity in Research Practices – Monthly Podcast Series.
2. The Breaking Research Barriers team began scheduling speakers for the monthly podcast series with a proposed launch of September 2021.
3. Task Force members and DUSON subject matter experts finalized content for the Research Equity Checklist Tool to be used in grant process to address administration, data, language, innovation, budget, etc. The task force is working to ensure the Tool is user-friendly and preparing a pilot in the coming months.
4. Task Force leadership met with a representative from DUSON’s Racial Justice Task Force Faculty Advancement and Retention Committee to identify potential opportunities for collaboration
To learn more about the Sub-Task Force or to be become engaged, contact jacqueline.brown@duke.edu or jessalyn.byrd@duke.edu.
Beyond the Shelf: Five Steps for Sharing Research Findings
Maralis Mercado Emerson, MPH, Clinical Research Coordinator for the SER Hispano and SER Communidad Projects and D-CHIPP staff affiliate, created this YouTube video about how researchers can share their findings with participants.
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Durham Housing Authority's Jobs Plus Program Making Strides
Durham Housing Authority (DHA) is diligently working to engage residents at McDougald Terrace in the Jobs Plus Program. The program, funded by Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is designed to provide education and job training to residents in public housing. While the goal was to enroll 100 residents in the first year, 90 individuals are already signed up within just a couple of months of launching the program. Once enrolled, participants complete an assessment that helps the Jobs Plus case manager determine the services needed. Most individuals begin with computer literacy classes by the Kramden Institute. Upon completion of the classes, participants receive a laptop to keep and they celebrate with a graduation ceremony. They then move on to other education classes such as studying for their high school equivalency diploma or skills training courses. A big congratulations to the DHA staff on successfully launching the program and working to improve the lives of residents at McDougald Terrace.
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Summer QI Scholars
The Quality Improvement (QI) Scholars Program continues during the summer semester with five ABSN students participating. Diana Bennett, Kitzia Diaz, Hayley Goell, Natalie Hartmond, and Alesha Pressley are working with Dr. Holly Biola and Nurse Manager Awanya Caesar at Lincoln Community Health Center. The projects focus on colorectal cancer screening follow up and diabetes management. The QI Scholars program gives students experience working in community health nursing and with providers at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
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Final Durham County Community Health Assessment 2020 - 2023 Now Available
The 2020 Durham County Community Health Assessment (CHA) has been released. The CHA focuses on health equity and has a new chapter on climate control. The CHA focus areas are: health and housing, mental health, access to care, and obesity, diabetes, and food access. These are unchanged from the 2017 CHA and remain the focus areas of the Partnership for Health Durham. Click here to read more.
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Schenita Randolph Promoted to Population Health RAE Lead
Dr. Randolph has a long history of engaging the community in conducting research and has an exciting vision to move this Research Area of Excellence (RAE) to the next level. She will be an excellent resource for our faculty conducting Population Health research. Below is a brief summary of Dr. Randolph’s research.
Dr. Randolph is advancing nursing science by addressing the root causes of sexual health inequities for Black male adolescents and women. The impact of Dr. Randolph’s work addresses sexual health inequities among Black male adolescents and young adults (AYA) and Black women in the United States through community and stakeholder engagement approaches. Dr. Randolph’s research is shifting the approach to sexual health among Black AYA with the first nurse-led, parent-adolescent intervention providing tools for parents to address HIV risk transmission and racial discrimination as interrelated public health issues. She is also addressing sexual health inequities among Black women by addressing barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) (a medication if taken consistently decreases HIV risk) such as PrEP stigma and distrust, as PrEP uptake among Black women is low, and interventions are limited. Her work has received national attention in the popular media and has been supported by public and private funders. She has publications in peer-reviewed journals that highlight population health and community and stakeholder engagement in education and research. As Co-Director of the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core at the Duke Center for REACH Equity, a NIMHD-funded health disparities research center, she provides consultations and trains career development scholars and researchers on community engagement principles and evidence-based strategies to better engage community stakeholders in research projects. She has provided technical consultations to researchers for numerous clinical trials that have increased participation in community engaged research and vulnerable populations. She co-developed a Community and Stakeholder Engagement course for the Duke CTSI and a COVID-19 Community Conversations series which has been utilized as a model for other researchers to engage their populations of study during the global pandemic.
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Devon Noonan appointed Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair in Nursing 2021-2024
Devon Noonan has built a program of research in health promotion and decreasing the risk of chronic diseases in vulnerable populations. The focus of her work spans three primary areas: alternative tobacco product use (i.e., waterpipe and smokeless tobacco); tobacco cessation interventions in underserved populations; and understanding multiple health behaviors and intervention approaches – all well aligned with our population health and health innovations strategic priorities. As a PI, she has been successful in obtaining both R15 and R01 grant awards during a time when federal funding is extremely competitive. For the past five years she has been continually funded by the NIH NCI for her work to develop and test text-based tobacco cessation interventions, and she is also site PI on an NIH NINR R01 that tests a text-based diet intervention for pregnant women. Her early work on water pipe smoking informed the American Lung Association’s policy recommendations to decrease waterpipe smoking, and her paper on biochemical verification of smoking cessation was highlighted on the national Veterans Administration Research Currents website. Dr. Noonan assumes the Program Director role of Duke’s National Clinical Scholar’s Program this summer.
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Upcoming Events
D-CHIPP CHAT (Community Health Academic Talk)
Faculty Featured: Stephanie Ibemere, PhD, RN
Date: Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
Time: 3:45 p.m.
Community Partner Recognition Event
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: DUSON, Classroom 1140 & Zoom option will be available
Third Annual Community Health Lecture
Keynote Speaker: Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN Drexel University Vice President of Health and Health Equity
Date: Monday, October 25, 2021
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: DUSON 1014 & Zoom
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