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Apache Healthy Stores
Team * Baltimore Healthy
Stores Team * ZA: TPD Team * Marshall Islands Healthy Stores
Team
APACHE HEALTHY STORES
RESEARCH TEAM
Joel
Gittelsohn, PhD, (Principal Investigator), is an Associate
Professor at
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Division of
Human
Nutrition. Dr. Gittelsohn has extensive experience in developing
community-based interventions to prevent obesity and chronic disease
in low
income and minority populations. He was the co-PI of the Johns Hopkins
component of Pathways, a multi-site obesity prevention trial, and
served on
several Committees and Working Groups (Formative Assessment (Chair),
Intervention, Process Evaluation, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors,
Dietary Assessment, School Climate), and is currently a co-investigator
in
TAAG, a multi-center intervention trial to increase physical activity
in
adolescent girls, where he also serves in several ways (Formative
Assessment (Chair), Formative and Process Evaluation, Intervention,
Promotions). He is also a co-investigator in an intervention trial
using
home visits to prevent obesity in African American children in Baltimore
City.
Benjamin
Caballero, MD, PhD (Co-Investigator), is Director and Professor
at the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health. His areas of research include childhood obesity and
amino acid and protein metabolism. He was the Principal Investigator
of the Pathways
project and has led other studies which seek to identify risk factors
for obesity in children at different ages, including dietary patterns,
physical activity, and growth patterns during early life. He is
interested in the primary prevention of obesity in both the developed
and developing world. His current work includes the Nutrition Transition
in China Project, which is documenting the impact of socio-economic
changes in China on nutrition and health by assessing dietary intake,
body composition, physical activity, insulin receptor sensitivity,
and lipoprotein, leptin and homocysteine levels in 6,000 children
and adults from rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Jean Anliker, PhD, RD, LD (Consultant), is a Research Associate
Professor
with the Department of Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts.
She
has over 25 years experience on community-based interventions for
culturally diverse populations. She played a major role in the development
and delivery of the food service interventions for Pathways and
supervised
that component at all elementary schools in the White Mountain and
San
Carlos Apache reservations. As Co-Principal Investigator and Director
of
Interventions for two NCI-funded projects, she developed successful
interventions to improve dietary behaviors of culturally diverse
WIC
participants. She has also worked with other culturally diverse
populations
through home and school-based interventions.
Sangita Sharma, PhD (Consultant), is a Research
Assistant Professor at the Cancer Research Center of Hawai’i.
She has significant experience developing quantitative food frequency
questionnaires for African origin peoples, including those living
in urban settings. Dr. Sharma is currently a consultant on the Apache
Healthy Stores project, where she took the lead in developing the
food frequency questionnaire and in training the data collectors
in its use. She will develop the quantitative food frequency for
use in the inner city population for the Baltimore Healthy Stores
project, conduct training of data collectors in the use of the instrument,
and will contribute to the analysis and writing up of these data.
Becky Ethelbah, MPA (Field Coordinator) is a member of the
White Mountain
Apache Tribe, with a strong record of community work in the areas
of health
and education. She was Project Coordinator of the Pathways study,
supervising a research staff of over 15 field workers.
Sarah Brett Farmer, Graduate Research Assistant
Amy Vastine, Graduate Research Assistant
Kelly Blake
is the Communications/Publications Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins
Center for Human Nutrition. She brings skills in writing, graphic
design and website development to the Healthy Stores projects and
is interested in the power of effectively-designed messages and
materials to promote social and behavioral change. She designs brochures,
posters, and educational displays for the Apache Healthy Stores
and Baltimore Healthy Stores projects and oversees the development
of the Healthy Stores website.
BALTIMORE HEALTHY STORES
RESEARCH TEAM
- Joel Gittelsohn, PhD
- Hee-Jung Song, MS
- Sonali Suratkar, MPH
- Cris Franceschini
- Kevin Frick, PhD
- Sharla Jennings, MS
ZHIIWAAPENEWIN AKINO’MAAGEWIN: TEACHING TO PREVENT DIABETES RESEARCH TEAM
REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL
ISLANDS HEALTHY STORES RESEARCH TEAM
- Joel Gittelsohn, PhD
- Neal Palafox, Md, MPH
- Julia Alfred
- Heather Haberle, MHS
- Malia K. Boggs, MPH
- Kevin Frick, PhD
- William Dyckman, MHS
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