Cherlie Magny-Normilus

Cherlie Magny-Normilus, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, and an NIH-funded behavioral nurse scientist. She leads a program of research focused on optimizing cardiometabolic health self-management among marginalized and understudied populations. Her work examines how
sociocultural factors, psychological determinants, and structural conditions interact to shape type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevention and self-management behaviors and downstream health outcomes. Grounded in community-based participatory research, she is designing and pilot-testing targeted interventions to improve diabetes self-management while simultaneously targeting the social and structural drivers of cardiometabolic inequity.
 

The flagship of her portfolio is An Santé ak Dyabèt (ASAD), “Let’s Live Healthy with Diabetes,” the first known multilevel, culturally and linguistically responsive T2D self-management education program developed specifically for Haitian American adults. Supported by a NIH-funded K99/R00, ASAD integrates behavioral theory, community-engaged design, and pragmatic implementation strategies to strengthen T2D self-care behaviors, improve glycemic control, and reduce T2D-related complications. A distinctive methodologic signature of this work is the use of continuous glucose monitoring paired with ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to phenotype, and sociocultural and environmental factors translate into measurable glycemic variability. This behavioral-physiologic profile, not previously documented in this population, reframes the standard A1c-only paradigm of diabetes monitoring in marginalized communities.

Magny-Normilus is equally committed to building durable nursing infrastructure globally. As co-director of the Regis College Haiti Project, an international nurse faculty partnership funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, she helped advance the credentials of 37 nurse educators across every region of Haiti. Her work was formally recognized by the Government of Haiti and acknowledged in the United States with the City of Boston’s Citation for Unwavering Commitment to Immigrant Health.
 

Magny-Normilus regularly presents her work at the American Diabetes Association, American Public Health Association, Eastern Nursing Research Society, and Transcultural Nursing Society conferences. Her research appears in peer-reviewed journals spanning nursing, public health, and patient safety. Prior to joining NYU Meyers, she completed postdoctoral training at Yale School of Nursing and held faculty positions at Boston College Connell School of Nursing and Regis College.