Dr. Suzanne Daly
Civic Science Fellow at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute

Suzanne Daly is the Civic Science Fellow at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute where she is part of the team supporting the work of Duke’s Interdisciplinary Hub for 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.

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Suzanne’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 our rural communities face, and how we can work together to create solutions to improve health and health care for all of our 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, NC as part of a team at Duke University’s Rural Health Equity Hub that is focused on advancing rural health and rural health equity.

Suzanne earned a PhD (Nursing), Bachelor of Science in Biology, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.