Postdoctoral Fellows
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| Banda, Jorge A., PhD | Prevention and treatment of obesity; promotion of physical activity and healthful eating; neighborhood environment determinants of health; the role of community parks in promoting physical activity; environmental and policy interventions targeting physical activity, healthful eating, and obesity. | |
| Dr. Grieco’s research focuses on the design, development and clinical testing of new technologies for improving behavioral health outcomes; and design of innovative, evidence-based programs to optimize health and productivity among individuals and in the workplace. |
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| Patel, Chirag, PhD | Develop methods to reason over large genomic and environmental datasets to address problems relevant to chronic disease. Interests include personalized medicine, environmental health, genomics, and bioinformatics. | Contact Info |
To investigate how the well-known quality of life instrument (SF-36) interacts with the established lifestyle risk factors (such as poor diet, obesity, and physical inactivity) in the prediction of prognosis for various chronic diseases (cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases). To compare the prevalence/incidence of various chronic diseases (cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases) and their associated risk factors between the native vs. immigrants (to the US) Bangladeshis. |
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International women’s health; chronic disease prevention with diet and physical activity; health behavior change; complementary and alternative medicine. Currently investigating dietary habits, physical activity, and barriers to weight management in urban Bangladeshi women. |
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Dr. Sheats interest include psychosocial, behavioral and environmental determinants of physical activity and healthy eating; food choice; the impact of contextual factors on the health outcomes of minority and aging populations, respectively; the development of technology-based physical activity and nutrition interventions; settings-based health promotion; health-related implications of Smart Growth; nutrition and physical activity-related policy. |
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| Winter, Sandra, PhD | Community informed participatory research intervention studies aimed at preventing chronic disease through the promotion of physical activity and healthful diet. Target populations include mid-life and older adults, Latinos, adolescents and individuals and communities of low socio-economic status. Interventions include the use of technology and community empowerment through advocacy and leadership skill-building. Assessing the impact of the built and social environments on physical activity and nutrition. |
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| Young-Wolff, Kelly, PhD, MPH | Dr. Young-Wolff’s research focuses on understanding the mechanisms through which environmental and genetic factors increase risk for the development of addictive behaviors and substance use disorders. She received a PhD in Clinical Psychology and an MPH from the University of Southern California in 2012. A three-year predoctoral NRSA Fellowship from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), supported her dissertation research, and she has worked extensively with large datasets in the fields of stress, addiction, substance use comorbidity and policy. She completed her predoctoral clinical fellowship at Yale University and is currently an NHLBI T32 postdoctoral fellow with the Stanford Prevention Research Center working with Drs. Jodi Prochaska and Lisa Henriksen on clinical trials and environmental studies of tobacco use in high-risk populations. Dr. Young-Wolff is currently assisting with the start up of a clinical trial for smoking cessation at the Stanford School of Medicine inpatient psychiatry unit, and conducting research to examine the relation between secondhand smoke exposure and smoking severity among adult smokers with mental illness. In 2012, she received the Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Trauma Psychology and the Anastasi General Psychology Recognition Award from the American Psychological Association, the Gordis Graduate Student Research Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the PhD Achievement Award Honorable Mention from the University of Southern California. |