Her work has focused on Hispanic health issues such as AIDS and Hispanic women, acculturation effects on health outcomes, community health/home care, and health policy issues for Hispanics. She is currently director of the HIV Advanced Practice Nurse Education Program, co-director of the International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing, and director of a pre-service nursing project with the School of Nursing, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (Tanzania), a HRSA-sponsored Twinning Center with the American International Health Alliance.