DGHI Faculty

Box 90086 229 Soc Psy Durham, NC 27708

(email)

Education

Ph.D.

Duke University

2002

Areas of Research

obesity

Professional Experience / Employment History

Harvard University School of Public Health

Assistant professor, Society, Human Development and Health, 2003 - 2010

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant professor, Center for Community-Based Research, Division of Population Sciences, Department of Medical Oncology, 2003 - 2010

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Great Place to Work Award, Harvard School of Public Health, January, 2007
Health Disparities Scholar, NCMHD, National Institutes of Health, 2005
Career Opportunities in Research “COR-Star” Award, NIM, NIH, 2004
Ten Outstanding Young Leaders of Boston Award, Boston Jaycees, 2004

Recent Grant Support

• Cell phone Intervention Trial for Young Adults, National Institutes of Health, U01HL096720, 2009/09-2014/08.      
• Community-based obesity prevention among Black women, National Institutes of Health, R01 DK078798, 2008/09-2013/08.      
• Weight loss among Chinese adults, 2010/12-2012/12.      
• Assessing the impact of grassroots community-wide environmental changes on encouraging children to be physically active, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2010/12-2012/12.      
• Cancer risk factors and vitamin D supplementation in Blacks, None, 2007/09-2012/08.      
• Using a new media weight loss intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes, National Diabetes Education Program, 2011/07-2012/06.      
• Integrated technologies for weight and blood pressure control in urban community health centers, National Institutes of Health, U01HL087071, 2006/09-2011/08.      
• Provider delivered interventions in primary care, National Cancer Institute, P50CA148596, 2010/07-2011/06.      

Selected Recent Invited Talks

eHeath methods in dissemination and implementation research, NIH Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health, 28 December 2011  

Obesity disparities., NHLBI Invited Workshop on Sleep Disparities, Bethesda, MD, 28 December 2011  

The Duke Obesity Prevention Program: Local solutions, global reach., DGHI 5th Anniversary Celebration. Durham, NC, 28 December 2011  

Using a new generation of tools for characterizing the personal environment in broadly based epidemiological studies, Exposure Biology Program, NIEHS, 28 December 2011  

Using new media technologies for weight loss in disadvantaged primary care settings, Carolina Seminar on Behavioral Research with Minority Populations. Chapel Hill, NC, 28 December 2011  

Discrimination, context and obesity: The Pitt County Study, American Psychosomatic Society, Portland, OR, 30 December 2010  

Doing, feeling, and being better: Obesity basics, Women’s Health Symposium, Raleigh, NC, 30 December 2010  

Obesity: What we [think we] know, Piedmont Health Services, Carrboro, NC, 30 December 2010  

To treat or not to treat: Obesity treatment among socially disadvantaged populations, North Carolina Association of Nutrition Directors, Raleigh, NC, 30 December 2010  

What divide? Use of new media technologies for weight loss in disadvantaged primary care settings, University of Illinois Chicago Cancer Center, Chicago, Il, 30 December 2010  

Designing sustainable cancer prevention interventions for populations of low socioeconomic status, American Association of Cancer Research, 13 January 2009  

Use of new media technologies for weight loss in the primary care setting, Boston Obesity Working Group, 2009  

Internet interventions for obesity, Washington University Siteman School of Medicine, 2008  

Obesity and cancer disparities: A population health approach, American Association of Cancer Research, 2008  

Use of eHealth technology to promote weight loss in the primary care setting, Harvard School of Public Health, 2008  

When is advantage and advantage: Future directions in the study of SES and obesity among Blacks, African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network Bi-Annual Invited Workshop, 2008  

Best practices for physical activity measurement in diverse samples, American College of Sports Medicine, 2007  

Engaging “communities” in obesity prevention: Best practices and practical strategies, Commission to Lower Childhood Obesity in Chicago, 2007  

Multilevel approaches to understanding physical activity among racial/ethnic minority populations, Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2007  

Affective response to mental stress and the John Henryism hypothesis, 2006  

Community-based obesity prevention research, Boston University School of Public Health, 2006  

Context matters: the social epidemiology of obesity among Blacks, Morehouse College, 2006  

Physical activity promotion and obesity reduction among low income Blacks: the benefits and challenges of community-based research, University of North Carolina Minority Health Conference, 2006  

Strategies for building effective community collaborations, 2006  

When knowing isn't enough: Physical activity among low income, multiethnic housing residents, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006  

Policy approaches to ending cancer disparities, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Legislative Breakfast, 2005  

The contribution of social and behavioral factors to prostate cancer disparities, African American Prostate Caner Disparity Summit, 2005  

The impact of racial discrimination on racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare, Commission to Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Health Care Disparities. Massachusetts State Legislature, 2005  

Publications (listed separately)