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Healthy Living
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Healthy Living
Healthy living social and behavioral research promotes health, reduces chronic disease and advances health equity through the development, evaluation, and dissemination of community-engaged intervention programs.
Mission
To engage people in the communities in which they live, work, and play to implement health promotion programs that are relevant, acceptable, and tailored to their personal, sociocultural, community, and environmental context.
Vision
To positively affect community and population-level health behavior and health outcomes using cost-effective, sustainable strategies, with particular attention to rural and other underserved groups, and to lead the translation of new discoveries from IHA’s responsive agriculture and precision nutrition hubs to community settings.
Leadership
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Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Ph.D., R.D.N., L.D., C.S.C.S.
IHA Co-Director
Associate Members
The following researchers are IHA Associate Members who have active Healthy Living research projects underway:
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Human Behavior Laboratory
Project title: Implementing Nutritional Interventions to Enhance Compliance and Adoption of Healthier Lifestyles.
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Dallas Research & Extension Center, Nutrition, IHA Healthy Living Team
Project title: Produce Rx: Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Improving Cardiometabolic Health Indicators Among Urban, Low-Income Adults and Caregiver-Toddler Dyads.
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Dallas Research & Extension Center, Nutrition, IHA Healthy Living Team
Project title: Optimizing the Effectiveness and Impact of the Healthy School Recognized Campus and Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club Programs.
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Dallas Research & Extension Center, Nutrition, IHA Healthy Living Team
Project title: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC) Digital Intervention
Project title: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC) Urban Adaptation.
Healthy Living Team
Located at the Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center