Roxanne Mirabal-Beltran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing.
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 has been honored to be named a 2025 Nursing Science Incubator for Social Determinants of Health Solutions Fellow by the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and a 2020 Health Disparities Institute Scholar by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses and currently serves as the President-Elect for the DC-Maryland-Virginia Chapter. In 2021, she was inducted into the Georgetown University 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, prompted her to pursue a Bachelor of Nursing at The Catholic University of America to be better able to address the health inequities she witnessed and experienced first-hand. After attaining her registered nurse license, she practiced as a labor and delivery and women's services nurse at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center from 1999 to 2020. While at the Hospital Center, 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 Georgetown University School of Nursing.
Dr. Mirabal-Beltran is a dedicated educator and mentor to others in all stages of their career. She champions undergraduate students through the Georgetown University Research Opportunities Program as well as through her membership with the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. She has been especially honored to mentor the first Georgetown School of Nursing Laidlaw Scholar, the first Georgetown School of Nursing Undergraduate Fulbright recipient, and the first Georgetown School of Nursing National Association of Hispanic Nurses Conference Awardee.
In her personal sphere, Roxanne is dedicated to voting rights through her work as an Election Judge and is a member of the Silver Spring Garden Club. She enjoys walking and hiking, Latin dancing, native gardening, art exhibits and shows, meditating, and engaging with her cello, Garp.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, SON - Nursing Academic Department