Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum | Charlotte

Researchers explain efforts to reimagine public surveys

Community & Housing

From left: Dr. Shayna Duncan, Dr. Melvin Herring and Dr. Sabina Otienoburu. Dr, Duncan is Assistant Professor of Social Work in JCSU’s Department of Social Work Dr. Herring is

 

Jan. 21, 2025

At a Forum largely focused on other matters, three Johnson C. Smith University professors were given a short time to explain a statewide effort to re-imagine how surveys of the public could be conducted. The goal, they said, is to better reflect the issues on the minds of the people surveyed, rather than the issues in the minds of those asking the surveys. The test case was a COVIC-19 Impact Study,

The JCSU team is part of an HBCU Health Equity Data Consortium funded by the N.C. Department of Health & Human Services.

The JCSU group may be invited back, but the segment from this morning’s Forum is below. And below the video are images of a two-page handout on the COVID-19 Impact Survey. The two pages may be downloaded as a PDF here.

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