Connor Randolph is an Associate Research Scientist for Take Care Durham and works with the PIRE Louisville Center in Kentucky. He graduated in May 2025 with an MPH from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) with a concentration in Health Behavior. While earning his MPH, Connor’s work primarily focused on program evaluation, implementation, and scale up.
Prior to joining PIRE, Connor worked at Project Access of Durham County (PADC), where he served as a Bilingual Enrollment Specialist and utilized both Spanish and English to help uninsured patients access donated specialty care at Duke Hospital. After two years with PADC, he began working at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center under the Carolina Cancer Screening Initiative (CCSI). As part of a large NIH funded grant focused on colorectal cancer screening, Connor served as the team’s lead patient navigator, assisting patients with positive stool based tests in obtaining recommended follow up care.
After the successful integration of the navigation program at the project’s two partner Community Health Centers (CHCs), he began working on the evaluation of the program, contributing to the project’s primary outcomes paper (published in JAMA Open) as well as collaborating on multiple papers related to the success of the navigation program. Using lessons learned from analysis and manuscript development, Lineberger began to scale up navigation efforts statewide to support CHCs in North Carolina.
Connor is passionate about improving healthcare access and reducing barriers to care for underserved communities. With expertise in program implementation and scale up, he is helping the Take Care initiative integrate a Spanish language component and adapt materials to better serve diverse populations. He is excited to support the program’s expansion in North Carolina and its continued collaboration with community based organizations.
A lifelong resident of the Triangle region (Chapel Hill), Connor recently moved back to Durham. He enjoys hiking, drawing and painting, playing board games with friends, and exploring new places to eat.
