First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Hart,Blanton,Professor,"My primary emphases are (a) health psychology & health communication, (b) social, normative and media influence, (c) attitude change and attitude-behavior modeling, and (d) psychometrics, assessment and research methodology. Much of my current and forthcoming research focuses on social influence processes occurring within immersive virtual reality environments, with a particular emphasis on utilizing virtual gaming worlds to deliver health communications. My applied areas are health-risk prevention, science communication, and implicit and explicit bias assessment and modeling",Professor and Department Head||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0647e950
Nancy,Fahrenwald,Professor and Dean,"As a board certified advanced public health nurse, Dr. Fahrenwald has worked in collaboration with local, state, regional and national organizations and groups to translate research evidence into sustainable programs that support tobacco cessation and prevention, improve access to primary health care, and impact chronic disease prevention and control. She has led or provided consultation to 30 funded research or training projects. Her extensive experience with multiple federal agencies focuses on rural health care access and the needs of underserved populations, especially organ and tissue donation education for American Indians.",Dean||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||School of Nursing,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0cb1b858
Rafael,Lara-Alecio,Professor,,Faculty Fellow||Professor,Educational Psychology||Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0cbb5fde
Daniel,Howard,Professor,Dr. Howard's research interests include the examination of epidemiologic patterns of health outcomes that disproportionately affect African Americans; minority health and health disparities; health policy and health services.,Affiliated Professor||Faculty Fellow||Professor||PPRI Professor and Fellow||Affiliated Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Public Policy Research Institute||Sociology||Africana Studies,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n338db2d5
Richard,Street,Professor,,Faculty Fellow||Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4a965e69
Zhipeng,Lu,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Zhipeng Lu's interests include (1) physical environment design for older people, especially those with Alzheimer's diseases, (2) safety in healthcare setting, (3) telemedicine for behavioral health, (4) advanced technologies to measure human-environment interactions (e.g., VR, eye-tracking, EEG, fNIRS and fMRI), and (5) healthy community to promote physical activities and healthy eating. He has served as PI, Co-PI and Co-I for multiple projects supported by Robertwood Johnson Foundation, NIH and the American Institute of Architects.",Associate Director||Assistant Professor,Center for Health Systems and Design||Architecture,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n620af405
Chanam,Lee,Professor,"Dr. Lee's research focuses on linking the built environment with public health outcomes. Her expertise is in 'active living research,' a transdisciplinary area of research that deals with environmental and policy approaches toward promoting physical activity.
Dr. Lee's contributions to this relatively new area of scholarship is significant in: (a) developing methodological and theoretical foundations, (b) bringing attention to high-risk populations, and (c) translating research into tools/guides to facilitate evidence-based policy/design interventions.",Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6d51b108
Courtney,Suess Raeisinafchi,Assistant Professor,,Assistant Professor||Faculty Fellow,"Center for Health Systems and Design||Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na6a3bef4
Jennifer,Lueck,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Lueck's research tests message effects and effectiveness by integrating strategic health communication principles and psychology. In order to motivate audiences to engage in particular health behaviors, her research aims to better understand the target audience of health messages by investigating attention, biased cognitive and affective processes, and memory of individuals affected by mental illness.",Assistant Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na90f316c
Richard,Kreider,Professor,"Director of the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab.
We study the role of exercise and nutrition on health, performance, disease and rehabilitation.","Faculty Fellow||Professor and Head||Director||DIrector, Human Clinical Core||Professor",Center for Health Systems and Design||Kinesiology and Sport Management||School of Education and Human Development||The Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory||Nutrition,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbc81b4e0
William,Mcintosh,Professor,Current research of the choices row farmers make regarding soil erosion; the willingness of feedlot operators and dairies to reduced antibiotic use earlier before cattle goes to slaughter; how parents' and children's affects one anothers use of time.,Profesor||Professor||Faculty Fellow||Professor,"Center for Health Systems and Design||Sociology||Nutrition||Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism",https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nc0988f9a
Mark,Benden,Professor and Head,,Professor and Department Head Environmental & Occupational Health||Director||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Ergonomics Center||School of Public Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf26a74d0
Jay,Maddock,Professor,My research focuses on social ecological approaches to increasing physical activity and the effect of spending time in nature on human health.,Professor||Faculty Fellow,Center for Health Systems and Design||Environmental and Occupational Health,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf33a34f7