Roxanne Mirabal-Beltran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing (GUSON).
Her research interests include reproductive health inequities with a focus on patient-provider communication. She is particularly interested in the use of Community-Based Participatory Research to facilitate access to health and health education in underserved and minoritized communities. Dr. Mirabal-Beltran was honored to be named a 2020 Health Disparities Institute Scholar by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is a member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses and the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. In 2021, she was inducted into the GU Medical Center Teaching Academy as an Associate Member. Dr. Mirabal-Beltran’s teaching interests are in reproductive health and health inequities related to race, ethnicity, and language.
After graduating from Duke University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science and a concentration in Neuroscience, Dr. Mirabal-Beltran worked in the nonprofit clinic sector in Washington, DC. Her work with Zacchaeus Free Clinic and La Clínica del Pueblo, free medical clinics committed to improving the health of the underserved in DC, kindled her interest in health disparities and inequities, prompting her to pursue a Bachelor of Nursing at The Catholic University of America. She practiced as a labor and delivery and women's services nurse at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center from 1999 to 2020. While practicing as an RN in DC, she pursued a Master of Science in Health Services Leadership and Management and a Post-Master's Certificate in Education from the University of Maryland, School of Nursing, Baltimore. Dr. Mirabal-Beltran received her PhD in Public Health from the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation examined the relation between ethnicity, race, and repeat cesarean birth among Hispanic and non-Hispanic birthing persons with a previous cesarean birth.
Dr. Mirabal-Beltran joined the faculty at Georgetown's School of Nursing & Health Studies in 2019 after a post-doc at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, funded through the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health in Education, Science and Practice Program, Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration. In 2021, she became an NCATS
CTSA Program KL2 scholar, the first to receive this award from the GUSON.