Devon Noonan

Dr. Noonan is a nurse scientist, certified addictions nurse and an Associate Professor in the Duke School of Nursing. She received her BSN at Boston College, her MS in Nursing at Georgetown University, her MPH and PhD at the University of Virginia and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. 

Dr. Noonan is the Associate Dean for Community Engagement Science and Director of Rural Health Equity and an Associate Professor at Duke School of Nursing.  She is a nationally recognized expert in prevention science, community engagement, rural public health and advocacy to improve health and prevent disease in rural communities. Dr. Noonan’s research program uses principles of community engagement to develop and implement health behavior change interventions in rural communities that significantly decrease chronic disease risk, with the majority of these interventions focusing on tobacco cessation. Collectively, she has disseminated this work broadly and has an impressive record of both internal and external research funding, receiving multiple internal grants and external funding as a PI from Sigma Theta Tau, the American Lung Association and the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Noonan has a longstanding rural academic health department collaboration with Granville Vance Public Health in North Carolina, where she is a researcher in residence. She established the Health Promotion and Wellness Research Incubator at the Duke School of Nursing to serve as a platform to support innovation between academic and community partners. This platform has led to the development of multiple co-created innovations to decrease chronic disease risk an supported the recent funding of a Rural Health Equity Hub/Center at Duke University, supporting interdisciplinary research to address rural chronic disease inequities in North Carolina. Dr. Noonan also sits on the board of directors of the Green Rural Redevelopment Group a rural micro farming CBO and has worked with this group for over five years to build community capacity to implement chronic disease prevention programs with an emphasis on sustainable and scalable practices that support local economic development and investment.

Dr. Noonan Co-Directors of the NCSP postdoctoral fellowship program at Duke. Dr. Noonan teaches and mentors students across all programs at DUSON and holds various leadership positions for the International Nurses Society on Addiction, editorial board member for the International Journal of Addictions Nursing, FNINR Ambassador, an advocacy role supported by the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research and a member of the Rural Health Congress for the National Rural Health Association.