Cherlie Magny-Normilus

Cherlie Magny-Normilus, PhD, FNP-BC, FNYAM, FAAN, FAHA is an Assistant Professor at the 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 advancing health equity and optimizing cardiometabolic self-management among underrepresented, low- income, and safety-net populations. Her work examines how sociocultural factors, psychological determinants, and structural conditions interact to shape chronic disease prevention, self- management behaviors, and downstream clinical outcomes. Grounded in community-engaged methodologies and implementation science, she designs and evaluates scalable behavioral interventions that improve chronic disease self-care simultaneously addressing structural drivers of health inequities.

The flagship of her portfolio is Living Empowered and Staying Active with Diabetes (LEASA), a culturally and linguistically responsive, core-plus-adaptable T2D self-management intervention engineered for diverse adults receiving care across community health centers and safety-net settings. Building upon proof-of-concept foundations established in her NIH-funded K99/R00 research, LEASA integrates behavioral science, real-time biofeedback, and implementation frameworks (e.g., CFIR/ERIC) to strengthen self-care behaviors, improve glycemic targets, and dismantle systemic barriers to chronic disease care in historically underserved communities. A distinctive methodological signature of her work is pairing digital health tracking devices (e.g., continuous glucose monitoring [CGM] and actigraphy) with actionable behavioral feedback to capture real-world glycemic and behavioral patterns. This integrative behavioral-physiologic approach reframes the standard HbA1c-only paradigm of diabetes monitoring in safety-net settings. 

Magny-Normilus is equally committed to building durable nursing infrastructure globally. As former 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 nurse educators across every region of Haiti. This transformative initiative successfully elevated national nursing education to the university level and enabled the implementation of the State University of Haiti’s first baccalaureate nursing (BSN) curriculum. Her global and domestic contributions have been formally recognized by the Government of Haiti and acknowledged with citations from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the City of Boston for her unwavering commitment to health equity and immigrant health. 

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