Faculty and Research Interests
CHE faculty members are involved in many different research studies. A list of the CHE faculty members is included below. To view more information on a faculty member, just click on their name.
Primary Community Health Education Faculty
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| Sonya Brady, PhD | Health risk behavior during adolescence and young adulthood; Developmental influences on risk taking; Mechanisms linking stressful life circumstances to health risk behavior and factors promoting resiliency; Promotion of health protective behavior; Public policies affecting adolescent health. |
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Media communication and public health; community campaigns; the "Knowledge Gap" and health outcomes; digital information technology and its impact on public health |
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Jean Forster, PhD |
Public health policy as a prevention strategy; Community-based strategies for chronic disease prevention; Tobacco policy |
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Social and environmental influences on eating and physical activity behaviors; Community-based strategies for eating behavior change; Adolescent nutrition and physical activity |
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Social Epidemiology; Health Program and Policy Evaluation Alcohol; Tobacco and Illicit Drugs |
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Smoking cessation; Reducing environmental tobacco smoke exposure; Health education in clinical settings |
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| Keith Horvath, PhD | Internet-based Public Health Interventions; HIV Prevention Interventions; Online Survey Methodology; Minority Sexual Health |
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Health behavior change; Dietary intervention; Obesity epidemiology, treatment, and prevention |
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Alcohol studies; Alcohol policy as a prevention strategy; Minority health issues; Behavioral epidemiology |
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Global issues in tobacco reduction; Smoking cessation; Treatment of medically compromised smokers |
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Obesity prevention and intervention, Weight control behaviors, Weight loss goals, Public health messages |
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Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention; Health behavior; Community trials; Clinical trials |
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Leslie Lytle, PhD |
Planning and evaluating eating behavior change interventions in children; Youth health promotion research; Theories of health behavior |
| Toben F. Nelson, ScD | Health policy; organizational change; health behavior during developmental transitions; influence of sports participation on health; social determinants of health; program evaluation; prevention of alcohol-attributable harm; physical activity promotion; obesity prevention; motor vehicle safety |
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Adolescent health and nutrition; Obesity and eating disorder prevention; Health behavior change; Nutrition education program design and evaluation |
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Quantitative Methods; Social Epidemiology; Research Ethics |
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Child and family adaptation to childhood chronic illness and disability; Prevention of mental health problems in children; Family health promotion |
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| Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH, LP | HIV/STI prevention; sexual health; sex; male homosexuality; prevention for HIV+ persons; religious and sexual identity formation; Internet sex; Internet-based-Public Health surveys and interventions; virtual community health |
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Undergraduate health education; AIDS; Chemical use and dependency; Dying and death |
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| Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD | Obesity prevention and treatment in children and adults. |
| John Sirard, PhD | Assessment of physical activity; the role of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity in children and adolescents |
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Child and adolescent nutrition; Obesity prevention; Eating behaviors |
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Policy research; Community organizing; |
ADJUNCT CHE FACULTY
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Community organizing |
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| Donald B. Bishop, PhD | Diabetes; obesity; asthma; physical activity; nutrition; tobacco use |
| Marla Eisenberg, MD, MPH | Influences on adolescent sexual behaviors; health issues of gay, lesbian and bisexual youth; body image and weight control behaviors; teasing and bullying |
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Health of college students: Urban health |
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Behavioral geriatrics: Pharmacoepidemiology; Research methods |
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Sara Rybicki, MPH |
HIV/AIDS |
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Health behaviors, and health outcomes; Provider behavior; Race/ethnicity disparities in treatments received. |
