Sabrina Noel
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Diet, stress and social conditions shape chronic disease. Yet reliable data are often missing for groups at high risk.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Physiology
- Topics
people living with HIV
type 2 diabetes
prediabetes
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Jun 2029
What they work on
- Test whether tailored nutrition education with complementary food provision reduces food insecurity and improves diet, blood glucose and HIV outcomes, in a randomized pilot trial of 100 people with HIV and prediabetes.
- Engage patients and providers using the EPIS implementation framework to identify barriers and facilitators to the Project GLOW intervention and to refine it for sustained clinic use.
- Quantify bone mineral density and trabecular bone score in about 1,000 PROSPECT adults in Puerto Rico and compare osteoporosis prevalence with national and US mainland Puerto Rican data.
- Assess how dietary intake, dietary biomarkers and measures of psychophysiological stress relate to bone density and bone quality among adults in Puerto Rico.
More about the research
The lab's projects address two such gaps. One is diabetes prevention among aging people living with HIV (PLWH) who face food insecurity. The other is osteoporosis, a disease of fragile bones, among adults living in Puerto Rico. Both projects ask how diet and structural or psychosocial factors affect health. One tests a nutrition intervention, and the other builds the population data needed to design prevention strategies.
Why it matters
Aging people with HIV who struggle to afford healthy food could benefit if education combined with food provision proves to lower diabetes risk and improve HIV control. This could give clinics a non-drug prevention approach. Adults in Puerto Rico face poor dietary quality, high stress and disaster-related hardship. New osteoporosis data could guide culturally relevant clinical and public health strategies to prevent bone loss and fractures.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University of Kentucky, KY·Medicine & Clinical Research
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Anne Fehrenbacher
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Model barriers and facilitators for adopting a digital PrEP implementation strategy within India's National AIDS Control Organization Targeted Intervention programs, guided by the EPIS implementation science framework.
The school
University of Massachusetts-Lowell: 7 labs on PI Pages, $121M a year on research, 149 research doctorates a year.
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