Module 4
Case Study: Bridging Community and Clinic to Promote Diabetes Equity in South Asian Communities
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Description: This module features Dr. Nadia Islam, PhD, Professor and Director of Translational Research Partnerships at NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Islam discusses the importance of community health workers (CHWs), as the bridge between the community and health systems. She highlights research and interventions to improve diabetes and comorbidities prevention and management among South Asian populations.
Key Takeaways:
Research, advocacy, and community service and health are all dependent on each other.
Different subgroups have different social drivers of health needs that require culturally-tailored interventions.
Community health workers offer connections between patients to health care systems in culturally and socially-responsive ways.
Resources:
Research Team Builds Ties to Reduce Diabetes for New York City’s Bangladeshi Community
NYU Langone Division of Health and Behavior: Cardiovascular Health and Diabetes Research Track
Recorded on: June 5, 2024
Nadia S. Islam, PhD
Nadia Islam, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her rigorous research program, marked by a collaborative approach involving multiple clinical and community stakeholders, focuses on developing culturally relevant community-clinical linkage models to promote health equity in disadvantaged communities. Dr. Islam co-directs the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (PRC) and the Community Engagement and Population Health Research core of NYU’s Clinical Translational Science Institute. She is also a lead investigator in the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, the nation’s only NIH-funded research center of excellence dedicated to eliminating disparities in Asian communities. Dr. Islam is the principal investigator on several NIH- and CDC-funded initiatives evaluating the impact of community health worker (CHW) interventions on chronic disease management and prevention in diverse populations.
Dr. Islam is a medical sociologist with a doctorate in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. Her work has been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, and numerous other peer-reviewed journals.