The pilot and feasibility program fosters innovative and transformative research designed to eliminate disparities in diabetes. Explore our current and past projects below.
Danielle Krobath, PhD, MS
“Building Capacity in Nutrition and Health Equity: Identifying Mechanisms Linking Multidimensional Discrimination Exposure with Type 2 Diabetes Disparities in Youth”
Dan Ferris, PhD, MPA
“From Translation to Transformation: Medically Tailored Meals and Food-is-Medicine Approaches for Equitable Outcomes in Diabetes Management”
Samuel Cortez, MD, MSCI
“Changes in Metabolic milieu after initiation of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy in Transgender Young Adults: The Snapshot Study”
Gabriella McLoughlin, PhD, MS
“Evaluation of a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to Enhance Equitable Partnerships in School Meal Implementation”
Lindsay Underhill, MPH, PhD
“Investigating disparities in geographic accessibility to health services for type 2 diabetes and hypertension in a rural Andean population in Peru”
Sarah Farabi, PhD, RN
“Development of a Prenatal Social Needs Module for Underserved Women at Risk of Diabetes”
Deborah Salvo, PhD and Carrie Howell, PhD
“Context matters: harnessing the CDTR/DRC network to examine the influence of community-level factors and the COVID-19 pandemic on diabetes-related behaviors in emerging Latino communities”
Miriam Jacome-Sosa, PhD
“Efficacy of a behavioral and plant-based dietary intervention in a Latino population with obesity”
Mary Katherine Ray, PhD
“Assessing Barriers to Diabetes Care in Real-Time in Diverse Youth with Type 1 Diabetes”
Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, MSW
“Food and Dietary Acculturation and Diabetes-Associated Risk Factors Among Immigrants and Refugees”