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NIA Sets Agenda for Behavioral Economics & Health Promotion Among Aging Populations
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As the summer comes to a close, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has
published the proceedings of this June's NIA Workshop on the application of behavioral economics to research on promoting the healthy behavior of older and middle-aged adults. CHIBE's Director,
Dr. Kevin Volpp, served on the workshop planning committee, and discussed the use of
Way to Health to facilitate the testing of interventions, among other topics.
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In
How Behavior Spreads: the Science of Compex Contagion, CHIBE affiliated faculty member
Damon Centola, PhD illustrates the ways in which Web-based insights can be applied to solve problems of organizational change, cultural evolution, and social innovation. Perhaps surprisingly, Centola finds that the same conditions that accelerate the viral expansion of an epidemic actually inhibit the spread of behaviors within social networks.
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What is Strategic Science?
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One of Obamacare's Big
Experiments to Lower Costs is Working Surprisingly Well
E-cigarettes Linked to Marijuana Use, Study Says
Why People Can't Resist the Viral Lure of the KiKi Challenge
Architects of Innovation
Skilled Nursing Outcomes Don’t Always Improve Along with Star Rating Gains
How Firms Can Convince Employees to Quit Smoking
Researchers Uncover Factors Behind Health Care Workplace Inclusion
Plucking Out the Heart
Pushing Doctors to Prescribe Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Triples Prescription Rate
People With More Self-Control Feel Less Hunger, Fatigue, and Stress
Florida Has One of the Worst Health Care Systems in the Nation, Report Finds
A Squirmy, Slimy, Crunchy New Potential Staple of the American Diet
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Emily Yang, MSPH recently joined CHIBE as a research coordinator in the
Psychology of Eating And Consumer Health (PEACH) lab. Ms. Yang received her B.S. in Biology from Duke and completed her M.S.P.H. at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests are centered around food access, obesity, and nutritional health improvements through environmental and behavioral changes.
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What drew you to your new position at the PEACH Lab? How does the role connect to your previous work and interests?
I have always been interested in the translation of research into real world applications. Through my master's studies and experience working at a think tank, I was able to explore many aspects of both nutrition research and policy. I was drawn to the PEACH Lab because of Dr. Roberto's "strategic science" approach, which brings researchers and policymakers together to improve the nutritional environment.
What new PEACH Lab projects are you most excited to be working on?
While I was a first-year masters student at Hopkins, I collected data in Baltimore as a research assistant for the PEACH Lab's Philadelphia Beverage Tax Evaluation. In a fun turn of events, I'm now in charge of coordinating data collection and training the incoming research assistants in Philadelphia.
Is there any particular new research in the area of healthy eating behavior change that you find especially fascinating?
A
study
we are reading for our lab's Journal Club highlighted work that has been done in ‘network nudging’, harnessing peer-to-peer transmission of behavior. Finding ways to incorporate social networks and systems thinking into behavior change research could result in innovative and interesting directions for this field.
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- Audrain-Mcgovern, J., Stone, M. D., Barrington-Trimis, J., Unger, J. B., & Leventhal, A. M. Adolescent E-Cigarette, Hookah, and Conventional Cigarette Use and Subsequent Marijuana Use. Pediatrics. 2018.
- Kral, T. V., Chittams, J., Bradley, C. B., Daniels, J. L., Diguiseppi, C. G., Johnson, S. L., Levy, S. E. Early Life Influences on Child Weight Outcomes in the Study to Explore Early Development. Autism. 2018.
- Tasian, G. E., Ross, M., Song, L., Audrain-Mcgovern, J., Wiebe, D., Warner, S. G., Furth, S. L. Ecological Momentary Assessment of Factors Associated with Water Intake Among Adolescents with Kidney Stone Disease. The Journal of Urology. 2018.
- Taylor, S. S., Olsen, M. K., Mcvay, M. A., Grubber, J., Gierisch, J. M., Yancy, W. S., & Voils, C. I. The Role of Group Cohesion in a Group-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2018.
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