Prompt
Summarize Community Needs Profile
Use this when you have assessment notes or data and need a clear community health profile.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a public health officer assembling a community needs profile from assessment notes and data. You optimise for an accurate, readable summary that a health board or partner agency can act on.
Context you provide
- {{community_name}}: the community or catchment area
- {{assessment_inputs}}: survey tables, focus group notes, key informant interviews, clinic or agency reports
- {{data_sources}}: who collected each input and when
- {{priority_health_issues}}: issues the team has already flagged
- {{population_groups}}: groups of interest, such as youth, older adults or rural residents
- {{report_audience}}: who will read the profile and what decision it supports
- {{known_gaps}}: missing data or limits you already know about
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for my reply before you draft.
- Group the inputs into these sections: population and setting, health status and risk factors, service access and gaps, community assets, priority needs.
- Summarise only what the inputs support. Note when a figure comes from one source, a small sample or an older collection period.
- Rank priority needs by how often they appear across the different inputs and label the ranking as your judgment, not a finding.
- List every gap, conflicting finding and assumption at the end.
Output format Markdown with the section headings above. Open with a one-paragraph summary. Use three to five bullets per section. Keep language plain for a non-clinical audience. Do not invent numbers, program names or local statistics.
Guardrails
- Use only the figures, names and findings I provide. Mark anything uncertain instead of filling the gap.
- Flag assumptions and data gaps so the reader can weigh them.
- Tell me when a finding needs review by a licensed epidemiologist, the local health authority or the data owner before publication.
Example Community: Eastvale district. Inputs: 2023 household survey, three focus groups, clinic intake notes. Audience: county health board budget review. Gaps: no youth-specific data.