Ferranti Lab

Emory University

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Atlanta · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2025

Hermanas de Corazón: A Community Health Worker Initiative for improving Heart Health in Migrant Farmworker Women?

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death of U.S. women with CVD mortality is increasing in reproductive-age women. Rural, migrant farmworker women have high CVD risks and CVD morbidity and mortality during reproductive years and later in life. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are major drivers of health risks, health-related behaviors, and health outcomes across the lifespan. Migrant farmworker women have multiple adverse SDOH and unmet social needs, compounding their CVD risk and negatively affecting cardiovascular health (CVH). The long-term goal of this project is to mitigate adverse SDOH of rural, migrant farmworkers and to improve their CVH, thus decreasing their…

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