Suzanne Brown Daly

Project focus: The Fellow will strengthen connections between rural communities and academic partners to advance rural health equity through community engagement, collaborative problem-solving, applied research, and translation of knowledge into practical resources and action.  
 
Suzanne Daly’s research areas include health disparities, rural health, access to care in rural areas, and equity in rural health and health care. She is passionate about educating others, including students, about the health and health care challenges rural communities face, and how to work together to create solutions to improve health and health care for all of rural residents. Suzanne’s dissertation examined racial disparities in the quality of health care. She has focused her research over the last several years on access to rural health care, specifically the new Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Program. She is excited to return to her longtime hometown of Durham, N.C. as part of a team at Duke University’s Rural Health Equity Hub that is focused on advancing rural health and rural health equity.  
 
Prior to coming to Duke, Suzanne was Research Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Rural Health and Nursing. Suzanne earned a Ph.D. in nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.