Research Projects

Our research program explores the dynamic effects of the economic and built environment on dietary and physical activity patterns. Basic elements of all projects include:

• Measures of population-wide environment, e.g., recreation facilities, food stores and restaurants, climate, weather, land use patterns
• Measures of income, education, demographic, and other socio-economic data
• Measures of body composition, physical activity and inactivity, and dietary intake
• Measures of many other intermediate health-related behaviors and outcomes

Projects

• Diet, Activity, Obesity & the Built Environment Dynamics
• Obesity Environment Transition
• Young Adult Environmental & Physical Activity and Diet Dynamics
• Determinants and Consequences of Alcohol Consumption
• Moving Beyond Race: Explaining Health Inequality Manifested as Obesity in the US