On June 17, 2015, Jeff Sykes wrote about the CHCS in Yes! Weekly:
“Community groups like the Greensboro Housing Coalition, Cone Health System, and others, possess mountains of data showing a connection between substandard housing, environmental conditions and poor health, but it’s often difficult to translate the data for policy makers and grant proposals.
“A new research center formed this year in the Office of Research and Economic Development at UNC- Greensboro, however, is using an interdisciplinary team of social scientists and geographic information systems to harness the power of that information.”