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Biography

Dr. Judith Aponte is a tenured Associate Professor and Specialization Coordinator of the Community/Public Health Nursing (MS) Graduate Program at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, Hunter College.

Her research has been on: prediabetes, diabetes and its risk-factors among Hispanics and Hispanic subgroups. Dr. Aponte has also conducted research on health disparities among vulnerable, monolingual (Spanish-speaking only or English-speaking only) and/or bilingual (English/Spanish) Hispanic populations. Her experience is in community-based participatory research and chronic disease management, using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Dr. Aponte's publications, presentations, and research have allowed her to educate students, clinicians, scholars, and educators about prediabetes, diabetes and its risk-factors. In her research, she has collaborated with faculty members from nursing and other disciplines. Dr. Aponte has also included undergraduate and graduate nursing and non-nursing students in her different quantitative and qualitative studies; and have been key members of her research team and have co-authored articles with her resulting from the research.