Publications

The Healthy Immigrant Families study was a randomized controlled trial with delayed intervention control group, with families as the randomization unit, to evaluate a socioculturally appropriate intervention to enhance dietary quality and improve physical activity with and for immigrant and refugee families.

The purpose of this pilot feasibility study was to examine the potential effectiveness of a digital storytelling intervention designed through a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach for immigrants and refugees with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). 

Persons from Somalia constitute the largest group of immigrants and refugees from Africa among whom diabetes-related health disparities are well documented.

Immigrants experience an escalation of negative health behaviors after arrival to the United States.

Lack of treatment fidelity can be an important source of variation affecting the credibility and utility of outcomes from behavioral intervention research.

Ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in clinical trials despite efforts to increase their enrollment.

Immigrants and refugees are affected by diabetes-related health disparities, with higher rates of incident diabetes and sub-optimal diabetes outcomes.

US immigrants often have escalating cardiovascular risk. Barriers to optimal physical activity and diet have a significant role in this risk accumulation.

Surveys are frequently implemented in community-based participatory research (CBPR), but adaptation and translation of surveys can be logistically and methodologically challenging when working with immigrant and refugee populations.

Human subject protection training (HSPT) is a requirement of Institutional Review Boards for individuals who engage in research.

Immigrants and refugees to the United States exhibit lower dietary quality than the general population, but reasons for this disparity are poorly understood.

Immigrants and refugees to the United States exhibit relatively low levels of physical activity, but reasons for this disparity are poorly understood.

Immigrants and refugees arrive to the United States healthier than the general population, but this advantage declines with increasing duration of residence.

Tuberculosis disproportionately affects immigrants and refugees to the United States.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emphasizes collaborative efforts among communities and academics where all members are equitable contributors.

Immigrant and refugee populations arrive to the U.S. healthier than the general population, but the longer they reside, the more they approximate the cardiovascular risk profiles of the country.

We used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to plan and implement free TB skin testing at an adult education center to determine the efficacy of CBPR with voluntary tuberculosis (TB) screening and the prevalence of TB infection among immigrant and refugee populations.

English as a Second Language programs serve large foreign-born populations in the US with elevated risks of tuberculosis (TB), yet little is known about TB perceptions in these settings.