NRHA announces 2019 Rural Health Award recipient: Susan Kunz

NRHA announces 2019 Rural Health Award recipient: Susan Kunz

The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is proud to announce its 2019 Rural Health Award recipients to be honored at the largest gathering of rural health professionals in the country May 9 in Atlanta, Ga. Amongst those honored was Arizona Prevention Research Center Community Action Board member Susan Kunz.

Susan Kunz, MPH, has been named NRHA’s Volunteer of the Year. In addition to serving as chief of program development at Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales, Ariz., Kunz has volunteered to chair NRHA’s Health Equity Council for the last two years and has been instrumental in helping the council and the Health Equity Conference grow. Kunz is also a member of the association’s Border Health Initiative group and has presented at many NRHA events. She’s always willing to help NRHA’s Government Affairs and Program Services teams, and she is an unwavering advocate of the association’s mission.