Belinda Roman
St. Mary's University, TX·Social Science
Diabetes and other chronic illnesses can keep people out of work. Losing work can then cut off access to health care and insurance, so the two problems feed each other.
- Fields
Social Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
diabetes
chronic illness
uninsured
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Test whether enhanced diabetes care for uninsured residents, given through a lottery-based randomized controlled trial with community partners, increases workforce participation and improves economic outcomes over one year.
- Measure whether added diabetes education, supplies and care improve health outcomes, including diabetes control, amputations, illness and death, in uninsured adults compared with those not selected in the lottery.
- Examine how enhanced diabetes care changes how participants use health care services, and what this suggests about care-management strategies for underserved communities.
More about the research
This cycle hits hardest in regions where many residents are uninsured or underinsured. A central question is whether better diabetes care for uninsured people can improve not only their health but also their ability to work and their economic well-being.
Why it matters
The results could help public health agencies and community programs decide how to spend limited funds on diabetes care, education and health care resources. Uninsured people with diabetes in underserved communities could benefit if the trial shows that better care improves both their health, such as fewer amputations and deaths, and their ability to stay in the workforce.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Alexander Bartik
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL·Social Science
Estimate how an extra $1,000 per month changes health-related behaviors and surroundings, such as nutrition, food security, exercise, substance use, sleep and neighborhood, by comparing randomized cash transfer groups.
Laura Caccavale
Virginia Commonwealth University, VA·Psychology·Early-career
Test whether the 6-month SHIFT2 transition program improves blood sugar control, measured by HbA1c, compared with enhanced usual care in a randomized trial of 50 people with type 1 diabetes aged 16–22.
Gayenell Magwood
University of South Carolina-Columbia, SC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Refine the iCINGS FAM intervention through interviews and focus groups with rural community stakeholders, so that it fits individual, family, community and social needs for managing illness as a dyad.
The school
St. Mary's University: 1 labs on PI Pages.
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