Jennifer Campbell
University at Buffalo, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Type 2 diabetes affects 13% of US adults. African Americans are more likely to have it, pay more for it, face more complications and die earlier than non-Hispanic Whites.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
type 2 diabetes
health disparities
African Americans
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Nov 2026
What they work on
- Test the preliminary efficacy of a diabetes-tailored conditional cash transfer, tied to biweekly nurse-led virtual education and stress-coping sessions, versus unconditional cash on blood sugar control and quality of life in a randomized trial.
- Compare the effects of conditional versus unconditional cash transfers on diabetes self-care behaviors and psychological health in 100 inner-city African Americans with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes.
- Estimate the cost of delivering the conditional and unconditional cash transfer interventions, in preparation for a future cost-effectiveness analysis.
More about the research
The project points to structural racism as an emerging driver of these gaps. Historical redlining and restrictive housing covenants pushed many African Americans into under-resourced inner-city neighborhoods. A prior community case study by the team in Milwaukee suggested that incarceration, segregation, violence, housing instability, food insecurity and poverty create chronic stress. That stress harms health and makes it hard to manage a disease like diabetes. This project asks whether giving people money can ease that poverty-related stress and improve diabetes care.
Why it matters
The results could show whether cash support, paired with nurse-led diabetes and stress-coping education, helps inner-city African Americans with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes manage their disease. Cost estimates from the trial would lay the groundwork for judging whether such programs are affordable for health systems and policymakers. Together, these findings could help reduce racial gaps in diabetes complications and early death.
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.
Aprill Dawson
Medical College of Wisconsin, WI·Medicine & Clinical Research
Determine whether a health educator-led smart speaker program is feasible and acceptable for adults aged 50 and older with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes (HbA1c ≥8%), measuring recruitment, retention and interview feedback.
Gabriel Frietze
University of Texas at El Paso, TX·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify barriers to and facilitators of joining diabetes self-management programs among Mexican-origin Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes and their healthcare providers, to guide the design of an online intervention.
The school
University at Buffalo: 32 labs on PI Pages, $542M a year on research, 316 research doctorates a year.
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