Turning Data To Action With Community Needs Assessments

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of community needs assessments in public health and the necessity of including community voices in the process.

How often do public health organizations decide what a community needs — without actually asking them? This episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast sees Gordon sit down with Alexandra Piatkowski, epidemiologist and founder & CEO of Piat Public Health, to unpack one of public health's most foundational — and often misused — tools: the community needs assessment. They explore why existing quantitative data is never enough on its own, how health equity moves from buzzword to practice,...

People in this episode

Host: Gordon

Guest: Alexandra Piatkowski

Topics covered

• community needs assessment
• public health
• health equity
• data analysis
• epidemiology

Keywords

• community needs assessment
• public health
• health equity
• data
• epidemiology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Piat Public Health, public health organizations

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