Healthy Living
Healthy Living
Social and behavioral healthy living research, which seeks to advance health equity for underserved populations, is the development, evaluation, and dissemination of community-engaged health promotion and chronic disease prevention intervention programs that integrate individual, sociocultural, environmental and policy/system-level factors.
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
Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Ph.D., R.D.N., L.D., C.S.C.S.
Associate Director, Healthy Living
Healthy Living Team
Located at the Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center
Dr. Chad Rethorst
chad.rethorst@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe
lexi.macmillanuribe@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Jacob S. Szeszulski
jacob.szeszulski@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Priscilla Ayine
Priscilla.ayine@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Phrashiah Githinji
phrashiah.githinji@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Margaret Demment
margaret.demment@ag.tamu.edu
Meredith Graham
meredith.graham@ag.tamu.edu
Vi Luong
Operations Manager
vi.luong@ag.tamu.edu
Lily Benner
lily.benner@ag.tamu.edu
Meghan Kershaw
meghan.kershaw@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Deyaun Villarreal
deyaun.villarreal@ag.tamu.edu
Erika Largacha
erika.l@ag.tamu.edu
Ashlee Gardner
ashlee.gardner@ag.tamu.edu
Anita On
anita.on@ag.tamu.edu
Lucy Xin
lucy.xin@ag.tamu.edu
Allyson Shaefers
allyson.shaefers@ag.tamu.edu
Associate Members
The following researchers are IHA Associate Members who have active Healthy Living research projects underway:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Human Behavior Laboratory
Project title: Implementing Nutritional Interventions to Enhance Compliance and Adoption of Healthier Lifestyles.
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.
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.
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.