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Winter 2019 Newsletter
Jan 16, 2019
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Letter from the Director
Suzanne Phelan introduces a number of new initiatives for the Center and looks forward to what's to come in 2019.
New Seminar Series on Science of Health Disparities Brings Experts to Campus
A new seminar series focused on understanding race and its impact on public health will bring nationally recognized researchers and medical professionals to campus.
New Studies Aim to Give Babies Their Healthiest Possible Start
With $2 million in multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, Alison Ventura and her students are studying how interactions between mothers and babies may affect the risk for infant overfeeding and later obesity.
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Mobile Health Unit Finalizes Service Hours for Patrons
The Mobile Health Unit has been providing referral services twice a week in Guadalupe and Santa Maria since November. Medical practitioners will be on site on a regular basis starting early in 2019.
Read more about the unit and see the schedule ›
Faculty Investigators Receive New Grants and Begin Pilot Studies
Investigators affiliated with the Center for Health Research (CHR) received a number of grants to continue or begin new research projects. In addition to these funded projects, researchers have launched new pilot studies in preparation for larger grant submissions.
Read more about the new grants and studies ›
Two New Staff Members Work with Participants and Their Data
The Center welcomed two new staff members: Jasmine Rubalcava, pictured at left, an interventionist and Nickolas Katsantones, a data manager.
Read more about the new staff members ›
Staff and Students Present at Recent Obesity Society Conference
Stephanie Gomez-Rubalcava, a research assistant, and kinesiology and public health student Kaitlin Stabbert presented their work at The Obesity Society national conference in Nashville in November.
Read more about the research presented ›
Publications Include Papers on Religion and Stimulant Use, Pregnancy Weight Gain
Investigators affiliated with the Center had a busy fall quarter, with publication topics ranging from gestational weight gain to the relationship between religious coping and the misuse of prescription stimulants.
Read the full list of publications ›
Center for Health Research Reported in the New York Times and by NPR
Readers may have seen center researchers’ work in the New York Times, NPR and over national news publications during the last several months.
See a list of news articles about the Center ›
Sarah Keadle Grant Announcement
Jan 14, 2019
Dr. Sarah Keadle, PhD, Kinesiology & Public Health professor, and colleagues will be researching the best ways to reduce the amount of sedentary screen time for adults outside of work and school as part of a new NIH grant. While sedentary screen time (SST; i.e., television viewing and/or video streaming outside of work and educational pursuits) consumes more than half of available discretionary time and is the single most prevalent use of time for Americans outside of work and sleep, past studies have largely focused on reducing workplace sitting.
Keadle will be working with Co-Principal Investigator Matt Buman, a mHealth behavioral interventionist at Arizona State University along with Cal Poly CHR researchers Suzanne Phelan and Todd Hagobian to develop and test approaches to reduce SST. The core intervention will include self-monitoring and behavioral target to reduce SST by 50%. Researchers will also test three different behavioral components for reducing sedentary screen time in adults ages 23-64 with overweight or obesity.
This is one of two new studies Keadle is currently overseeing. The second study, ACT24, looks at the accuracy of a mobile-based survey about daily activity, ACT24.
Letter from the Director Winter 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Happy New Year to the growing number of community members, students and investigators affiliated with the Center for Health Research (CHR). We look forward to more opportunities to connect with you in the coming months.
We hope that you are able to attend some of the talks in our Science of Health Disparities seminar series. As you’ll read in the newsletter, we have a series of outstanding investigators and practitioners coming to Cal Poly to present their research on how and why health disparities exist and steps we can take to enact positive change.
CHR investigators are also launching several new projects in the area of minority health, including studying the health consequences of immigrant enclaves and the use of a mobile health clinic to increase access to care among low income women and infants.
We are grateful for your collaboration and efforts to promote access to health for all in our community and beyond. Best wishes for a healthy and productive 2019.
-Suzanne Phelan, Director, Center for Health Research
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