Faculty

PhD Prepared Faculty

Maithe Enriquez

PhD, APRN, FAAN

  • Professor
  • Potter-Brinton Distinguished Professor of Nursing
  • Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Participatory Health Research

Faculty Mentoring Status / Research & Teaching Emphasis Areas

Maithe Enriquez, APRN, PhD, FAAN is a nurse researcher with an active clinical practice as an adult nurse practitioner. She has expertise in participatory research methods and serves as the Coordinator of the Participatory Health Research Graduate Certificate program at the University of Missouri-Sinclair School of Nursing.  She is Editor-in-Chief for Hispanic Health Care International, official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.

Dr. Enriquez completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill focused on the prevention and management of chronic health conditions. Her research and clinical endeavors have focused on global and domestic projects that aim to enhance health outcomes for under-resourced populations. Her work has included the prevention and management of infectious diseases, such as HIV and COVID, and the prevention and management of chronic health conditions, such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus.  She has mentored undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of research and clinical endeavors that use a participatory, or collaborative, approach.

  • ‘From the Ground Up’: A farming and nursing partnership to address the high burden of chronic disease in Missouri” – Ben and Gloria Gambaro Faculty Endowment in Entrepreneurial Nursing, Sinclair School of Nursing (McCormick, Shahan, Enriquez, Weston, Albrecht &Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture [community partner]), 1/2026-12/2026
  • Building capacity for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research on diabetes in Missouri – Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI), (Enriquez, M., PI), 11/1/25 – 10/31/2027
  • Effectiveness of and implementation strategies for ‘Disfrutando’: A tailored, bundled intervention to address type 2 diabetes mellitus in high-burden populations –  Washington University Center for Diabetes Translation Research Pilot & Feasibility Program, (Enriquez, PI), 04/01/2025 – 03/31/2026
  • Viviendo Bien: Development of a Community-Partnered Research Agenda with Under-Resourced Hispanic Communities in Two Missouri Counties – Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (Wash Univ ICTS) Clinical & Translational Sciences Research Funding Program, (Enriquez, PI), 03/01/2025 – 02/28/2026
  • Disfrutando la Vida con Diabetes: Development and pilot testing of a community-partnered intervention to enhance health outcomes for Hispanic adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – The Research Foundation, (Enriquez, PI), 2023-2024
  • Feasibility, acceptability and pilot of a real-time electronic adherence monitoring intervention for antiretroviral therapy – NIH/NIAID/R34 (Dworkin, PI; Enriquez, Consultant), 2023 – 2026
  • A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Remdesivir (GS-5734) Treatment of COVID-19 in an Outpatient Setting – Gilead Sciences (VanHise/Metro Infectious Disease Consultants, PI; Enriquez, Sub-investigator/Site PI), 2020-2021
  • Automated version of the Centers for Disease Control’s COVID-19 test, a polymerase chain reaction or PCR-based test which detects the genetic material for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 – Stowers Institute for Medical Research and MRIGlobal – 1287975 (Gerton/Stowers Institute, PI; Enriquez, Sub-investigator/Site PI, Research Medical Center), 2020-2021
  • Community Engagement Award, Population and Community Health RIIG, Midwest Nursing Research Society, 2026
  • Fellow, Cambio Center, University of Missouri, 2025
  • Potter-Brinton Distinguished Professor of Nursing, 2024
  • Outstanding PhD Faculty Award, Sinclair School of Nursing Graduate Students, 2020
  • Editor, Hispanic Health Care International, 2018-Present
  • Barbara Kleist Distinguished Alumni Award, St. Luke’s College of Nursing, 2017
  • Inducted as Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2013
  • Enriquez, M. (2025). Half-century milestone: National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN). Hispanic Health Care International, 23(4), 194–194. https://doi.org/10.1177/15404153251379202
  • Enriquez, E. (2025). The power of promotoras. Hispanic Health Care International, 23(1), 2-3.
  • Enriquez, M., Molina, R., Alvarez, N., Barbosa, M., Cheng, A., Collette, J., Kelly, P.J., Luna, D., Mora, W., Mourad, W., Saxton, S. & Midgett, J.(2025) A community-partnered approach to address excess type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Midwestern community, Journal of Community Health Nursing; doi:10.1080/07370016.2025.2522172.
  • McKinsey D, McKinsey JP, McKinsey, JR, & Enriquez, M (2025). Optimizing Missouri’s preparation for the next pandemic: lessons learned from COVID-19: part 2. Missouri Medicine; 122(1):12-18. PMID: 39958600.
  • Traylor, D. O., Enriquez, M., Thompson-Robinson, M., Yu, M., Bloom, T., & Bullock, L. (August 14, 2024). Barriers and Facilitators That Influence HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)-Prescribing Behaviors Among Primary Care Providers in the Southern United States. Cureus, 16(8): e66868 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.66868
  • *Rabbitte, M, Enriquez M (2024) Factors that Impact Assigned Female Sexual Minority Individuals Health Care Experiences: A Qualitative Descriptive Study. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 19(1): 97-120.
  • *Molina R & Enriquez M (2023).  Enhancing diabetes health outcomes among Haitian migrants living in Dominica bateyes.  Science of Diabetes Self-Care Management, 49(4):281-290. 
  • *Glenn LE, Thurlow CB, Enriquez M (2022). The ‘ups and downs’ of living with type 2 diabetes mellitus among working adults in the rural south.  Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 13:21501319221143715. 
  • *Emezue CN, Dougherty DS, Enriquez M, Bullock L, & Bloom TL (2022).  Perceptions of risk for dating violence among rural adolescent males. American Journal of Men’s Health 16(5). 
  • *Conley P, Ohnuotka D, & Enriquez M (2022).  Perception of gratitude among new nurse graduates: a mixed-methods study.  Nursing Management, 53(7): 36-42. 
  • *Shaw AR, Enriquez M, Bloom T, Berkley-Patton J, VIdoni ED (2022).  We are our sister’s keeper: the experience of Black female clergy responding to intimate partner violence. Journal Interpersonal Violence. 
  • McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB, Enriquez M. (2022) COVID and the Tenth Amendment Response. Missouri Medicine. 119(4):336
  • *McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB & Enriquez M (2022). COVID-19 in Missouri: Perspective on origins, spread and controversies Part I.  Missouri Medicine 119 (2): 98-105.
  • *McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB, & Enriquez M (2022). COVID-19 in Missouri 2021-2021:  A perspective on origins, spread and controversies Part II.  Missouri Medicine 119 (3): 176-184. 
  • *McKinsey DS, Enriquez M (2022).  Reactivation histoplasmosis manifested by lymphocutaneous fistula with cervical drainage of stones. Private Practice Infectious Disease, www.ppidjournal.com.
  • Emezue, C. N., Enriquez, M., Dougherty, D. S., Bullock, L. F., & Bloom, T. L. (2021). Rural young males’ acceptance & receptiveness to technology-based interventions for dating violence prevention: A qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Adolescence, 92, 137-151.
  • Lambert, C. C., Galland, B., Enriquez, M., & Reynolds, N. R. (2021). A systematic review of nurse-led antiretroviral medication adherence intervention trials: How nurses have advanced the science. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 32(3), 347-372.
  • Enriquez, M., Remy, L., & Dickson, E. (2021). Two years in: The COVID-19 pandemic and hispanic health. Hispanic Health Care International, 19(4), 210-211.
  • Bertrand, P., Scott, S. D., Enriquez, M. (2025). Success and Sustainability of Peer Support Programs for Healthcare Workers: Review. [Poster Presentation]. 2025 MU Health Sciences Research Day, November 15, 2025, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Guida, D., Albrecht, F., & Enriquez, M. (2025). Participatory Group Discussion of the Viviendo Bien Study: Methods and Lessons Learned. [Poster Presentation]. 2025 MU Health Sciences Research Day, November 15, 2025, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Albrecht, F. D.C., Guida, D., & Enriquez, M. (2025). Participatory group discussions of the “Viviendo Bien” study: Focus on methods. [Poster]. MU Graduate & Professional Council Research and Creative Activities Forum, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 24, 2025.
  • Enriquez, M. (2025) Enhancing health outcomes for Hispanic people through participatory research. National Association of Hispanic Nurses 50th annual conference, Dallas, Texas, July, 2025.
  • Enriquez, M., Molina, R., Alvarez, N., Barbosa, M., Cheng, A., Collette, J., Kelly, P.J., Luna, D., Mora, W., Mourad, W., Saxton, S. & Midgett, J. (2025) Let’s end the ‘epidemic’ of type 2 diabetes mellitus in our Midwestern Hispanic community: a participatory approach. HPBL RIIG Symposium, Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2025.
  • Ruppar, T., Miller, E., Pickler, R. & Enriquez, M. (2025). Editor’s Panel: Ethical Publishing. Symposium, Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2025.
  • Bertrand, P., Scott, S., Merandi, J. & Enriquez, M. (2025). From consensus to change: harnessing the Delphi method in peer support team research. Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, Indiana. (poster)
  • Enriquez, M. (2024) Community-Partnered interventions to address social determinants of health and advance health equity; Collaborative Health Researchers Interdisciplinary Seminar Series; April 9, 2024, University of Missouri
  • Enriquez, M. (2024) Getting started (and publishing) your manuscript; National Association of Hispanic Nurses, 49th annual conference, Atlanta, GA, July, 2024.
  • Enriquez, M. (2024). Injectable cabotegravir + rilpivirine in viremic adults, Metro Education Center, Chicago, IL (webinar) November, 2024
  • Enriquez, M. (2024). Advances in HIV treatment and prevention, St. Olaf College / School of Nursing, Northfield, MN, November, 2024.
  • Enriquez, M., Miller, E., Ruppar, T., Pickering, R. Editor’s Panel, Midwest Nursing Research Society (2023).  Des Moines, Iowa. 
  • Enriquez, M. Building COVID-19 vaccine confidence: perceptions of an unvaccinated Latinx community (2022). Invited Speaker, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. 

In the news

Sugar Cane Field

July 27, 2023

SSON study examines struggles of Haitian migrants self-managing diabetes on Dominican Republic sugar cane fields

Mizzou Nursing findings have implications for impoverished people struggling to self-manage their diabetes worldwide.

March 5, 2019

Effectively Treating Hypertension in Underserved Communities

Associate Professor, Maithe Enriquez has partnered with the Dominican Light a Candle Foundation, Kansas City non-profit Dominican Republic Medical Partnership and American non-profit Jonas Philanthropies to pilot a hypertension care program in underserved communities of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. So far, the results of this program indicate that it is both effective and sustainable. Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a major health concern worldwide, affecting an estimated 31 percent of the world’s population. Low and middle-income countries, such as the Dominican Republic, are disproportionately affected. “Communities of migrant workers in the Dominican Republic…

April 18, 2018

Students, Faculty and Alumni Represent SSON at MNRS Conference

The Sinclair School of Nursing (SSON) showed off its research prowess at the Midwest Nursing Research Society’s (MNRS) 42nd Annual Research Conference. The SSON team gave 16 research presentations and took home three awards from the conference, themed “The Future of Nursing Research: Economic Realities and Creative Solutions.” The team also took on new leadership roles. PhD alumna Briana Snyder was elected as co-chair of the MNRS Emerging Scholars Network (ENS) while current PhD student Jennifer O’Connor was elected ENS treasurer. In addition to networking and presenting research, students, faculty and alumni networked with other professionals to discuss online course…

Nov. 27, 2017

Students Present at Health Sciences Research Day

Each year, MU Health Sciences Research Day is organized and sponsored by the MU Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, who also partners with the School of Medicine, the SSON, the School of Health Professions and the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital.

July 18, 2017

2017-2020 NINR Funded T32 Health Behavior Science Pre-Doctoral Fellows Selected

The MU Sinclair School of Nursing is pleased to announce Laura Remy, MPH, RN, of Kansas City, Mo., and Maureen Varty, BSN, RN, of Washington, D.C., have been selected as National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) funded T32 Health Behavior Science Pre-Doctoral Fellowship recipients for 2017-2020. As a PhD student, Laura is studying the development of behavioral interventions to enhance the outcomes in vulnerable populations living with chronic health conditions, such as HIV. She is mentored by Maithe Enriquez, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN, Associate Professor of Nursing. As a PhD student, Maureen is studying health behavior interventions related to improving…

July 12, 2017

SSON Helps Launch New Online Graduate Certificate in Participatory Health Research

The University of Missouri is working to increase the number of researchers who use a patient-centered and community-engaged approach to their work by launching a new online graduate certificate in participatory health research.  “When researchers, community members, social welfare experts and health care administrators work as partners to conduct research projects, there is an increase in meaningful change and forward progress,” says Maithe Enriquez, SSON associate professor. “Former U.S. Surgeon General David Stacher has said this type of research methodology holds the key for getting to the root cause of health disparities.” The program will create more health care professionals…

Oct. 28, 2013

Associate Professor Inducted as AAN Fellow

Oct. 28, 2013 Columbia, Mo. — Maithe Enriquez, an associate professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (MU SSON), was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing Oct. 19 at the Academy’s 40th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Enriquez, a nurse practitioner, volunteers one day a week at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, where she provides primary care for adults living with HIV disease. She has focused her research and clinical career on enhancing health outcomes for underserved low-income individuals of color and individuals living with HIV disease. Her research largely centers…