Nicole has a broad background in designing and implementing projects, many of which are e-enabled and use large electronic health record (EHR) datasets, that incorporate the social context for underserved populations, including overseeing state-wide and multi-site care management programs to address health inequities in Diabetes, Asthma and Behavioral Health. Nicole’s experience includes successfully implementing and evaluating telehealth and clinic-based interventions to engage and empower people to better manage their conditions. After many years as a health care administrator, Nicole pursued a PhD in Epidemiology so that Nicole could be better prepared to develop evidence around interventions to address health inequities. As a faculty member at Nova Southeastern University, Nicole taught epidemiology, clinical informatics, and research methods extensively and supervised numerous undergraduate, masters-level, medical students and physician residents in scholarly activity that resulted in over 100 poster presentations at international, national, and local conferences. Though research funding and publication was not a requirement of Nicole’s faculty role, Nicole successfully developed and was awarded numerous research grants, service grants and contracts. Some highlights include serving as lead evaluator on a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community Transformation Grant where Nicole conducted research on patient experience and smoking policies among underserved populations; successfully developing a Retirement Research Foundation award to test a caregiver education intervention to improve sleep among lower-income adults with dementia; securing two PCORI awards to develop a consortium and comparative effectiveness portfolio to improve treatment and management of bowel incontinence in primary care, and, securing Florida Blue Foundation funding to developed a remote health promotion program designed to improve behavioral health literacy among low-English speaking parents of school-aged children in Broward County, FL. Through June 2021, this program successfully engaged more than 4000 parents whose primary language is Haitian Creole, Spanish or Portuguese. Prior to Nicole’s recent career change to OCHIN, Nicole co-wrote and served as the co-Principal Investigatoron a CDC funded study to understand therisks and causes of post-COVID-19 illness among a racial and ethnic diverse population in South Florida.