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Emily Isabel Shipley Granados, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow

Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville 807 Children's Way Jacksonville, FL 32207

Biography

Isa Granados, PhD, MS, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nemours Children's Health in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science in Jacksonville, Florida. She is trained in population health sciences with a concentration in implementation science from Duke University School of Medicine and is committed to advancing research that improves health outcomes across the lifespan. Her work broadly focuses on designing, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based interventions that promote health among both children and adults. Her research interests include obesity and chronic disease prevention, health equity, and strengthening connections between healthcare systems and community settings. She is particularly interested in leveraging electronic health record (EHR) data and conducting rigorous cohort studies to generate real-world evidence that informs clinical care, policy, and population health strategies. Dr. Granados applies mixed-methods approaches to examine how interventions can be effectively adapted, scaled, and sustained in diverse populations. She has contributed to multiple federally funded projects, including NIH-supported work through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to develop and evaluate sustainable pediatric obesity interventions in partnership with community organizations. Her current and emerging research explores how family- and system-level factors influence health behaviors and outcomes, with a growing emphasis on sustainability and long-term impact across populations. Her scholarly work includes peer-reviewed publications and presentations at national conferences such as AcademyHealth, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and ObesityWeek. She is actively engaged in interdisciplinary collaboration and welcomes partnerships that bridge research, clinical care, data science, and community engagement. Through her work, Dr. Granados aims to translate research into meaningful, scalable solutions that improve population health and advance equity.

Education

  • PhD - Duke University, Population Health Sciences, 2024
  • Master of Science - Duke University, Population Health Sciences, 2021
  • Bachelor of Science - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology and Global Studies (History Minor), 2017

  • Chronic Disease Prevention
  • Cohort Studies
  • Community-Clinic Partnerships
  • Community-Engaged Research
  • Diabetes Prevention And Management
  • Dissemnation And Implementation Science
  • Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Data
  • Family Health And Behavior
  • Food Insecurity
  • Health Equity
  • Health Services Research
  • Healthcare Delivery Science
  • Implementation Science
  • Intervention Sustainability
  • Mixed-Methods Research
  • Nutrition
  • Obesity Prevention And Treatment
  • Observational Research
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Policy-Relevant Research
  • Population Health
  • Real-World Evidence
  • Social Determinants Of Health
  • Translational Research

  • Assessing Implementation of Clinic-Community Partnerships Treating Pediatric Obesity.; Childhood obesity (Print); (2026).

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  • Disparities in Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity Medication Dispensing: A Retrospective Linked EHR‐Pharmacy Cohort, 2020–2025; Obesity; (2026).

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  • Nutrition and obesity in under-represented population (NOURISH): study protocol to examine the effect of restricted and unrestricted financial benefits on infant food insecurity, growth, and nutrition; BMC Pediatrics; (2026).

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  • Produce Prescription Subsidy for Patients With Diabetes; JAMA Internal Medicine; (2026).

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  • The roadmap for community engagement: co-design and evaluation of a toolkit to strengthen community–academic research partnerships; Journal of Public Health; (2026).

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  • Community partnership lessons learned from the You & Me: Test and Treat study; BMC Public Health; (2025).

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  • Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023–2024; American Journal of Public Health; (2025).

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  • A feasibility pilot study testing a new transition of care model from hospital to the community for Hispanic/Latino adults with diabetes to reduce emergency department visits and hospital re-admissions.; Unknown Source; (2024).

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  • A pilot study testing a new transition of care model from hospital to the community for Hispanic/Latino adults with diabetes to reduce emergency department visits and hospital re-admissions; Pilot and Feasibility Studies; (2024).

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  • Addressing cost barriers to healthy eating with Eat Well, a prescription produce subsidy, for patients with diabetes and at risk for food insecurity: Study protocol for a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation pragmatic randomized controlled trial; Contemporary Clinical Trials; (2024).

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  • Implementation of NCCARE360, a Digital Statewide Closed-Loop Referral Platform to Improve Health and Social Care Coordination: Evidence from the North Carolina COVID-19 Support Services Program; North Carolina Medical Journal; (2024).

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  • Neighborhood Public Transportation Access and Adolescent Body Mass Index: Results from the FLASHE Study; Childhood Obesity; (2024).

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  • Patients' and Providers' Perspectives of the Transition of Care from Hospital to Community for Hispanic/Latino Adults with Diabetes; Hispanic Health Care International; (2024).

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  • If You Build It, They Will Come: Physical Educators' Perceptions Regarding How to Design an Optimal Online Physical Education Resource; The Physical Educator; (2023).

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  • LATIN-19: A Grassroots Coalition to Mitigate the Effect of COVID-19 on the Latinx Community in North Carolina.; Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action; (2022).

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  • Self-Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to DASH Diet Adherence Among Black Americans with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Qualitative Study; Journal of Renal Nutrition; (2022).

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  • Barriers and Facilitators to DASH Diet Adherence Among Black Adults with CKD: A Qualitative Study; Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; (2021).

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  • Cue-based treatment for light smokers: A proof of concept pilot; Addictive Behaviors; (2021).

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  • The Association Between Neighborhood Public Transportation Usage and Youth Physical Activity; American Journal of Preventive Medicine; (2021).

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