Education:
DrPH, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy - 2018 (Community, Society and Health)
MPH, CUNY School of Public Health - 2006 (Public Health Nutrition)
BA, Hunter College - 2000 (French Language and Literature)
BS, Ankerhus Seminarium - 1988 (Nutrition)
Areas of Expertise:
Diabetes risk among African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants
Dietary acculturation
Diabetes screening and risk criteria
Nutrition epidemiology
Survey analysis
Diabetes prediction algorithms
Books and Publications
Waldman, Z., Schenk, B., Duhuze-Karera, M.G., Patterson, A., Hormenu, T., Mabundo, L., Dubose, C.W., Whitesell, P. L., Wentzel, A., Horlyck-Romanovsky, M.F. Sumner, A.E. Sleep and Economic Status are Linked to Daily Life Stress in African-born Blacks living in America. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052562 Special Topics Issue: The Health of African Migrants: The Burden, Determinants, and Solutions. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Haley S. Increasing Obesity Odds Among Foreign-Born New Yorkers are not Explained by Eating Out, Age at Arrival, or Duration of Residence: Results from NYC HANES 2004 and 2013/2014. BMC Public Health 2021, 1453. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11351-1 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Huang TT-K, Ahmed R, Echeverria SE, Wyka K, Leung MM, Sumner AE, Fuster M. Intergenerational Differences in Dietary Acculturation among Ghanaian Immigrants Living in New York City: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Nutritional Science. 2021;10:e80. doi:10.1017/jns.2021.69 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Khosla L, Bhat S, Fullington LA, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. HbA1c Performance in African Descent Populations in the United States With Normal Glucose Tolerance, Prediabetes, or Diabetes: A Scoping Review. Prev Chronic Dis 2021;18:200365. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.200365
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 4 th Edition. Editor(s): Katz, D., Yeh, M, Levitt, J., Essel, K.D., Joshi, S., Friedman,
R.S.C. Wolters Kluwer.
* Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. Chapter 10 Diet and Cerebrovascular and Peripheral Vascular Disease
* Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. Chapter 15 Diet and Respiratory Disease
* Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. Chapter 26 Malnutrition and Cachexia
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
Hormenu T., Shoup E.M., Osei-Tutu N.H., Hobabagabo A.F., DuBose C.W., Mabundo L.S., Chung S.T., Horlyck-Romanovsky M.F., Sumner A.E. Stress Measured by Allostatic Load is Adversely Affected by Reason for Immigration, Age at Immigration, and Number of Children: the Africans in America Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020;17. https://doi:10.3390/ijerph17124533 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Mugeni M, Hormenu T, Hobabagabo A, Shoup EM, DuBose CW, Sumner AE, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. Identifying Africans with Undiagnosed Diabetes: Fasting Plasma Glucose is Equivalent to the Updated Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Diabetes Prediction Equation. Primary Care Diabetes, 2020; February 24. 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.02.007 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Shoup EM, Hormenu T., Osei-Tutu N.H., Ishimwe M.C.S., Patterson A.C., DuBose C.W., Wentzel A., Horlyck-Romanovsky M.F., Sumner A.E. Africans Who Arrive in the United States before 20 Years of Age Maintain Both Cardiometabolic Health and Cultural Identity: Insight from the Africans in America Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Dec 15;17(24):9405. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17249405. PMID: 33333954; PMCID: PMC7765413. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Briker S, Aduwo J, Mugeni R, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Dubose C, Mabundo L, Hormenu T, Chung ST, Ha J, Sherman A, Sumner AE. A1C Underperforms as a Diagnostic Test in Africans even in the Absence of Nutritional Deficiencies, Anemia and Hemoglobinopathies: Insight from the Africans in America Study. Front. Endocrinol., 2019;07. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00533 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Fuster M, Echeverria SE, et al. Black Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean Have Similar Rates of Diabetes but Africans Are Less Obese: the New York City Community Health Survey 2009-2013. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Sumner AE. Treating T2DM by ensuring insulin access is a global challenge. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 2019;15(3):135-137. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Horlyck-Romanovsky MF, Wyka K, Echeverria SE, Leung MM, Fuster M, Huang TT. Foreign-Born Blacks Experience Lower Odds of Obesity but Higher Odds of Diabetes than US-Born Blacks in New York City. J Immigr Minor Health. 2019;21(1):47-55. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Mugeni M, Aduwo J, Briker SM, Hormenu T, Sumner AE, Horlyck-Romanovsky MF. A Review of Diabetes Prediction Equations in African Descent Populations. Front. Endocrinol., 2019;10(663). https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00663 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
