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UTEP Awarded Grant to Expand Men's Diabetes Program

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. Hispanic health disparities
  2. cultural health beliefs
  3. stress
  4. mental health
  5. type 2 diabetes
  6. Global Health
  7. Community Engaged Scholarship
  8. Food Insecurity
  9. Poverty
  10. Political and Civic Behavior
  11. Social Assistance and Health Policy

Featured Researcher(s):

Concha, Jeannie
College: Health Sciences
Department: Public Health Sciences
Schober, Gregory
College: Health Sciences
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
UTEP Awarded Grant to Expand Men's Diabetes Program
Date: June 12, 2019



The Diabetes Garage, a men’s diabetes management and self-care program, will offer men in Texas who have the disease the gift of health to last a lifetime. With support from a $324,800 grant, Jeannie Concha, Ph.D., assistant professor in UTEP’s Department of Public Health Sciences, will implement the program in El Paso and in two other Texas cities by 2021.


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