Rahma Mkuu
University of Florida, FL·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Cervical cancer can largely be prevented through regular screening, yet some groups still die from it at much higher rates. People with obesity or type 2 diabetes, and people living in poverty or rural areas, are more likely to miss screening and more likely to die of the disease.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
cervical cancer
cancer screening
cancer prevention
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2029
What they work on
- Determine which combinations of obesity, type 2 diabetes, poverty and rurality are associated with cervical cancer diagnosis risk, using latent class analysis of OneFlorida+ electronic health record and claims data.
- Adapt the PINPOINT patient navigation intervention for people with obesity or type 2 diabetes living in poverty or rural areas, guided by Intervention Mapping and the Health Belief Model.
- Pilot test whether the adapted PINPOINT program is feasible and acceptable for supporting cervical cancer screening, evaluated with Proctor's Framework for Implementation Outcomes.
More about the research
More than 41% of U.S. adults have obesity, and obesity and type 2 diabetes often occur together, so reaching these patients could have broad effects.
Why it matters
People with obesity or type 2 diabetes who live in poverty or rural areas frequently miss cervical cancer screening and die of the disease at higher rates. A navigation program adapted to their circumstances could help more of them get screened, so cancer is found earlier or prevented. Mapping the highest-risk subgroups in routine health data could also help health systems decide whom to reach first.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Sarah Miller
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Refine the eNav Toolkit, a web app for colorectal cancer screening decisions, reminders, bowel-prep instructions and education, through two rounds of field testing with 10 federally qualified health center (FQHC) patients each.
Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin
Wake Forest University, NC·Medicine & Clinical Research
Strengthen consultation on using continuous glucose monitors in diabetes research, including advanced study design, analytic methods and practical concerns.
Joyce Lee
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
Facilitate access to real-world data, including electronic health records, insurance claims and pharmacy claims at health-system, state and national levels, to study nutrition and obesity outcomes across the life course.
The school
University of Florida: 65 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 795 research doctorates a year.
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