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Join us for a lunchtime talk with Nadia Islam, PhD who will present on Integrated Community-Clinical Linkage Models to Advance Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Prevention and Management for Asian Americans. Dr. Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine. She serves as the Deputy Director of the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health and Research Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center. She is also the Principal Investigator of a CDC-funded Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health grant focused on implementing policy, systems, and environmental approaches to hypertension control and management in Asian American communities in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Islam specializes in community based participatory methods and health disparities research within Asian American and immigrant communities. She serves as the principal investigator on several NIH- and CDC-funded initiatives evaluating the impact of community health worker intervention on chronic disease management and prevention in diverse populations.

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