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.

Related Projects

Research Project

Examining the impact of a filmed dramatized story intervention for HIV prevention in Latinas 

Natalia Villegas Rodriguez, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC, FAAN
Research Project

Mind Your Heart Intervention for American Indian Women

Jada Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
Research Project

Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementia in midlife Latinos

Yamnia Cortés, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, FAHA
Practice and Service

Megan Williams | Invest In Nursing: An Educational Redesign to Strengthen the Primary Care Workforce

Practice and Service

Victoria Soltis-Jarrett | Nurse Practitioner Residency: Behavioral Health Integration in Rural Primary Care using the TANDEM3-PC Model

Practice and Service

Victoria Soltis-Jarrett | Partners in Practice, Engagement, and Education in Rural NC: Preparing Nurse Practitioners for Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care

Research Project

Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Perimenopausal Latinas: Pilot Study of a Multi-Component Intervention

Yamnia Cortés, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, FAHA
Research Project

Inflammatory Markers, Hazardous Air Pollutants, and Psychosocial Factors

Jada Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
Research Project

Promoting Stretching Exercise to Reduce Cardiovascular Health Risk in Late Pregnant Women with Obesity

SeonAe Yeo, RNC, PhD, FAAN
Practice and Service

Mobile Health Clinic

Research Project

NC WORKS4HEALTH: Reducing Chronic Disease Risks in Socioeconomically disadvantaged, unemployed populations

Shawn Kneipp, PhD, RN, ANP, APHN-BC, FAANP
Research Project

The HARMONY Study — A Culturally-Relevant, Randomized-Controlled, Stress Management Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk in African American

Research Project

Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention With Hispanic Mothers and Their Young Children