Category: Researcher Spotlight
eHealth Researcher Spotlight: Temitope Erinosho
THRIVE for Health Taking center stage this month is the wonderful Dr. Temitope Erinosho, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition at UNC, and her innovative approach to obesity and cancer risk prevention in children from low-income families. Currently, she is developing a family-based life skills intervention (THRIVE for Health) to help low-income parents develop psychosocial skills to better navigate their daily challenges and promote healthy weight behaviors in their preschool aged children. Dr. Erinosho has been working with CHAI Core to complete the formative phase of her study, Understanding concerns, needs, and challenges of low-income parents of preschool children aged 3-5 … Read More »
Categories: Researcher Spotlight Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel HilleHealth Researcher Spotlight: Dianne Ward & Laura Linnan
CARE: Caring and Reaching for Health A Worksite Wellness Program for Child Care Staff UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s dynamic duo, Dianne Ward, Professor of Nutrition, and Laura Linnan, Professor of Health Behavior, have teamed up on a worksite wellness study called CARE: Caring and Reaching for Health. The 5-year NIH funded study (Co-PIs Ward and Linnan) will enroll ~100 child care centers and over 400 workers to evaluate the efficacy of a 6-month intervention to increase workers’ physical activity and other health related behaviors (Healthy Lifestyles) compared to a control arm (Healthy Finances), which will receive a parallel … Read More »
Categories: Researcher Spotlight Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill