Dr. Noonan is a nurse scientist, certified addictions nurse, Associate Dean for Community Engagement Science and Director of Rural Health Equity and an Associate Professor at Duke School of Nursing. She is the Treasurer of the Global Board of the Internal Nurses Society on Addictions. Her research impact has been in developing and evaluating substance use prevention programs in partnership with rural communities. Collectively, she has disseminated this work broadly, publishing over 70 publications and has both internal and external research funding, receiving multiple internal grants and external funding as a PI from Sigma Theta Tau, the American Lung Association and the National Institutes of Health.