Health Disparities and Equity
Investigating and addressing the factors that increase the risk of poor health outcomes in vulnerable populations is critical to creating health equity.
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Examining the impact of a filmed dramatized story intervention for HIV prevention in Latinas
Natalia Villegas Rodriguez, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, FAAN
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Mind Your Heart Intervention for American Indian Women
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Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementia in midlife Latinos
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Megan Williams | Invest In Nursing: An Educational Redesign to Strengthen the Primary Care Workforce
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Victoria Soltis-Jarrett | Nurse Practitioner Residency: Behavioral Health Integration in Rural Primary Care using the TANDEM3-PC Model
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Victoria Soltis-Jarrett | Partners in Practice, Engagement, and Education in Rural NC: Preparing Nurse Practitioners for Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care
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Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Perimenopausal Latinas: Pilot Study of a Multi-Component Intervention
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Inflammatory Markers, Hazardous Air Pollutants, and Psychosocial Factors
Jada Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
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Promoting Stretching Exercise to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Risk in Late Pregnant Women with Obesity
SeonAe Yeo, RNC, PhD, FAAN
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Mobile Health Clinic
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NC WORKS4HEALTH: Reducing Chronic Disease Risks in Socioeconomically disadvantaged, unemployed populations
Shawn Kneipp, PhD, RN, ANP, APHN-BC, FAANP
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The HARMONY Study — A Culturally-Relevant, Randomized-Controlled, Stress Management Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk in African American
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Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention With Hispanic Mothers and Their Young Children
Recent News & Publications
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Dr. Grace Wu receives ISPN award to explore genetic risk factors for eating disorders in Taiwan
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Mobile nursing clinics serve N.C. communities: from The Well
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UNC Project-Malawi and SON present on cancer care in Malawi
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