Obesity and health inequities
What are the most effective weight loss/weight gain prevention strategies for high risk groups?
What are the most effective weight loss/weight gain prevention strategies for high risk groups?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
What knowledge about health behavior change can be leveraged to design innovative and effective strategies for behavior change among the most vulnerable individuals?
Will sensitivity to the psychological aspects of obesity, including lifestyle priorities and motivations, improve the efficacy of long-term effectiveness of weight loss and obesity prevention interventions?
What approaches can utilize current knowledge on health literacy/health communications as a research development tool and/or strategy to enhance obesity prevention and treatment efforts?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
There is a need to identify effective interventions for heart, lung, blood, and sleep diseases that could have a transformative population level impact on health inequities if expanded at the national level.
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
Since most people know that there are behaviors that they need to do to be healthy, can we leverage peer or family pressure or use social media to create a “grass roots” groundswell of health-promoting behaviors?
How might social media platforms such as Facebook and Meetup.com be leveraged for designing low-cost research studies and interventions that promote sustainable healthy lifestyle and behaviors?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
What is the secret behind the “resilience” some people have to heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
From various publications and reports, we have characterized the risks associated with sickle cell disease (SCD) and understand many of the barriers for treatment of SCD in LMICs. How can implementation science research be used to reduce the negative outcomes of SCD in low/middle income countries?
Goal 3: Advance Translational Research
How can we most effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular disease among persons with serious mental disorders?