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Co-Director, Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture

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Associate Director Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture (Iha) and Chief Scientific Of

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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Opach, Objective Physical Activity And Cardiovascular Health

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COVID-19 Related Protocol Considerations and Modifications within a Rural, Community-Engaged Health Promotion Randomized Trial.

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Community supported agriculture plus nutrition education improves skills, self-efficacy, and eating behaviors among low-income caregivers but not their children: a randomized controlled trial.

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Serum carotenoids are strongly associated with dermal carotenoids but not self-reported fruit and vegetable intake among overweight and obese women.

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Changes in physical activity outcomes in the Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC-2.0) community-based randomized trial.

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Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Educational Events Are Broadly Accepted and May Increase Knowledge, Self-Efficacy and Behavioral Intentions.

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Real-time Assessment of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Affective States and Glucose: Protocol for a 14-Day Observational Study.

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Cost analysis and cost effectiveness of a subsidized community supported agriculture intervention for low-income families.

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Strong Hearts for New York: A multilevel community-based randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention for rural women.

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Implementation of the Texas Community-Engaged Statewide Consortium for the Prevention of COVID-19.

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Mujeres Fuertes y Corazones Saludables, a Culturally Tailored Physical Activity and Nutrition Program for Rural Latinas: Findings from a Pilot Study.

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Feasibility of a yoga intervention to decrease pain in older women: a randomized controlled pilot study.

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Improvements and Maintenance of Clinical and Functional Measures Among Rural Women: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities-2. 0 Cluster Randomized Trial.

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Changes in diet and physical activity resulting from the Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction multilevel intervention trial.

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Rural Food and Physical Activity Assessment Using an Electronic Tablet-Based Application, New York, 2013-2014.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Recruiting experiences of NIH-funded principal investigators for community-based health behavior interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Household Food Sourcing Patterns and Their Associations with Food Insecurity in Appalachian Ohio.

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Fruit and Vegetable Intake Assessed by Repeat 24 h Recalls, but Not by A Dietary Screener, Is Associated with Skin Carotenoid Measurements in Children.

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Multilevel Interventions Targeting Obesity: State of the Science and Future Directions.

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Growing Opportunities for Equitable, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Food Systems Education: A Review of Food Systems Education at Land-Grant Institutions and Development of Open-Access Materials

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Consideration of nutrition and sustainability in public definitions of "healthy" food: An analysis of submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Gaining and Maintaining a Competitive Edge: Evidence from CSA Members and Farmers on Local Food Marketing Strategies

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Metabolic phenotype and risk of obesity-related cancers in the Women's Health Initiative.

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Examining the Associations between Walk Score, Perceived Built Environment, and Physical Activity Behaviors among Women Participating in a Community-Randomized Lifestyle Change Intervention Trial: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities.

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Identifying and Removing Fraudulent Attempts to Enroll in a Human Health Improvement Intervention Trial in Rural Communities.

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Environmental Influences on Physical Activity among Rural Adults in Montana, United States: Views from Built Environment Audits, Resident Focus Groups, and Key Informant Interviews.

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Real-time Assessment of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Affective States and Glucose: Protocol for a 14-Day Observational Study (Preprint)

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Association of neighborhood Walk Score with accelerometer-measured physical activity varies by neighborhood socioeconomic status in older women.

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Physical activity and healthy eating behavior changes among rural women: an exploratory mediation analysis of a randomized multilevel intervention trial.

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Urban-Rural Differences in School Districts' Local Wellness Policies and Policy Implementation Environments.

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Strong Hearts, healthy communities: a rural community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program.

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Associations between farmers' market shopping behaviours and objectively measured and self-reported fruit and vegetable intake in a diverse sample of farmers' market shoppers: a cross-sectional study in New York City and rural North Carolina.

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Perceptions of nutrition education classes offered in conjunction with a community-supported agriculture intervention among low-income families.

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Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors regarding Fruits and Vegetables among Cost-offset Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Applicants, Purchasers, and a Comparison Sample.

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Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities: A Community-Based Randomized Trial for Rural Women.

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A qualitative study of factors related to cardiometabolic risk in rural men.

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Spatial Considerations for Implementing Two Direct-to-Consumer Food Models in Two States

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Process Evaluation of Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities: A Rural Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program.

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The Texas Community-Engagement Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities (TX CEAL) Consortium.

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The Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities Program 2.0: An RCT Examining Effects on Simple 7.

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Effects of the Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities Intervention on Functional Fitness of Rural Women.

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Short Physical Performance Battery and Incident Cardiovascular Events Among Older Women.

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Making community-supported agriculture accessible to low-income families: findings from the Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids process evaluation.

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Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids (F3HK): An innovative community supported agriculture intervention to prevent childhood obesity in low-income families and strengthen local agricultural economies.

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Integrating Civic Engagement Into a Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Women - A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation.

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Healthy Eating and Active Living in a Post-Pandemic World.

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Perspectives on a local food access and nutrition education program from Cooperative Extension nutrition educators

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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

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Assessing the Readiness of Rural Public Librarians to Implement Public Health Programs.

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Ripple Effects of a Community-Based Randomized Trial for Rural Women: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities.

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Self-efficacy and cooking confidence are associated with fruit and vegetable intake in a cross-sectional study with rural women.

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Evaluation of a civic engagement approach to catalyze built environment change and promote healthy eating and physical activity among rural residents: a cluster (community) randomized controlled trial.

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Associations of Number of Daily Eating Occasions with Type 2 Diabetes Risk in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial.

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Helping farmers with continuation planning for cost-offset community support agriculture to low-income families

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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

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Participation in Cost-offset Community Supported Agriculture by Low-income Households in the U.S. is Associated with Community Characteristics and Operational Practices.

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Process evaluation findings from Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities 2.0: a cardiovascular disease prevention intervention for rural women.

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Knowledge and Experience Related to Community Supported Agriculture and Local Foods among Nutrition Educators

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Fruit and Vegetable Preparation Changes During and After Cost-Offset Community-Supported Agriculture Plus Nutrition Education.

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Diet Quality of Community Caf Meals Among Guests With Food Insecurity.

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Long-Term Body Weight Maintenance among StrongWomen-Healthy Hearts Program Participants.

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Improvements in dietary intake, behaviors, and psychosocial measures in a community-randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities 2.0.

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences