Research opportunities are vast and may be delineated among the following three categories:
1. Intervention Research: a. Improving nutrition counseling and obesity prevention programs in clinical settings.
b. Decreasing health disparities African American and rural populations by developing community partnerships and collaborations to implement health-related strategies to improve health.
2. Methodology: Create and validate tools to better assess nutrition-related behavioral and clinical factors.
3. Self-guided cross-sectional studies: Examine many facets related to nutrition and behavior, disease risk, and social factors. |
Lemacks J, Maxwell M, Ralston PA, Ilich Ernst J. (2012) Interventions in Adult African American populations for improving nutrition and physical activity behaviors: A systematic review of the past decade. Prev Chron Dis (Accepted January 16, 2013)
O’Neal Walker C, Wickrama KAS, Ralston PA, Ilich-Ernst J, Harris CM, Coccia C, Young-Clark I, Lemacks J. Eating behaviors of older African Americans: An application of the theory of planned behavior. [published online ahead of print December 14, 2012]. Gerontologist. 2012. http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/13/geront.gns155.full. Accessed January 12, 2013.
Lemacks JL, Liu PY, Shin H, Ralston PA, Ilich JZ. Body Adiposity Index validation as a measure of obesity in postmenopausal, Caucasian American women and its comparison to BMI. Menopause. 2012;19(11):1277-9.
Wickrama KAS, Ralston PA, O’Neal Walker C, Ilich-Ernst J, Harris CM, Coccia C, Young-Clark I, Lemacks J. Life dissatisfaction and eating behaviors among older African Americans: The protective role of social support. J Nutr Health Aging. 2012;16:749-753.
Maxwell M, Lemacks J, Coccia C, Ralston PA, Ilich J. A student-led project to improve calcium intake and healthy lifestyle in African American communities. Topics of Clin Nutr. 2012;27(1). |
