Donna J. Biederman

Donna Biederman, DrPH, MN, RN, CPH, FAAN received her BSN and MN degrees from the University of Washington, Tacoma and her DrPH from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her expertise and scholarly focus include health disparities, social determinants of health, and housing policy. Her clinical experience includes 17 years in Emergency Department nursing and management and case management for persons experiencing homelessness. Dr. Biederman is the Director of the DUSON Community Health Improvement Partnership Program (D-CHIPP) and Director of the Mobile Prevention and Care Team (M-PACT) Clinic (HRSA Cooperative Agreement UK1HP46054-01-00) where she and her team are developing nurse led models of care in urban underserved and rural communities. Dr. Biederman is a co-founder of Durham Homeless Care Transitions, a transitional care program for persons experiencing homelessness which received Edge Runner recognition from the American Academy of Nursing. She was a fellow in the inagural Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program where her focus was on Medicaid policy funding for tenancy support services for permanent supportive housing residents. Prior to her faculty appointment, Dr. Biederman was a Community Health Clinical Nurse Educator at DUSON.