Journal of Glycomics & Lipidomics
Open Access
ISSN: 2153-0637
ISSN: 2153-0637
Judith Aponte
Associate Professor, Specialization Coordinator, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, The city university of New York, New York, USA
Dr. Judith Aponte is a bilingual Hispanic nurse, educator, researcher and speaker. She is a tenured associate professor at the School of Nursing at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her research focus is on Hispanics with diabetes. She examines diabetes and diabetes-related issues affecting Hispanics subgroups, and compares the different subgroups.
I am PI of two research projects funded internally through the CTSC at Weill-Cornell College via a subcontract to me. In the most current one (funded at $90,000), I am conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the efficacy of community health workers (CHWs) in improving physiological measures, knowledge and health-promoting behaviors among Hispanic diabetics. Upon completing the study and publishing the findings, I will be one of the few researchers to examine both the efficacy of CHWs in providing diabetes education and the cost-effectiveness of CHWs in NYC.