duBay Horton Associates (dHA) is more than a community based research firm - it is a firm driven by a commitment to providing high quality public health and community organizing services to communities in need. dHA was founded in 2001, but has behind it more than twelve years of practical public health and community mobilizing experience. Kristin duBay Horton, the founding and principal partner, is committed to improving the communities in which she lives through the common sense application of planning and organizing principles. This firm, which is owned and operated by an African American woman, seeks to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical, and specializes in the dissemination of ideas to a wide variety of audiences.

Ms duBay Horton brings experience in such fields as community planning and organizing, group facilitation, training development and provision, meeting planning, research management, strategic planning, program evaluation, and needs assessment. Furthermore, she has developed a unique perspective with which to approach community-based research, through her experiences within a state health department, within an academic consulting firm in the Bay area, and from independent consulting in a wide variety of jurisdictions and fields.

"I believe that as an African American woman, and an anthropologist I bring an important perspective to my public health work which helps to bridge the historic gap between researchers and those that they study."
- Kristin duBay Horton

In addition to Ms. duBay Horton, ten part-time consultants and research assistants have provided a wide range of services and activities on an even wider variety of public health topics. As most of our work is supported through public funds most of our products and materials are available for review, and adaptation for your agency. Please review other pages of our site:

dHA is pleased to announce that a new staffperson Dianna Miller makes new Grantwriting packages available!

Staff and Consultants - an overview of some of our staff - with examples of the types of work they like to do for dHA.

Past dHA Projects - includes materials and information from past projects on lead poisoning, environmental health tracking, breastfeeding, perinatal depression, and random digit dial surveys, strategic planning (to name just a few).

Ongoing dHa Projects - has descriptions of projects we are completing right now. These include evaluations of gambling interventions for adolescents, underage drinking work, violence exposure in the very young and evaluation of an asthma PI campaign.

We work hard to continue to update our site and to place materials here that other communities may find helpful in doing their own public health work - if you have questions and can't find it here please contact the firm's principal - Kristin duBay Horton

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