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Healthy Living

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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 head shot

Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Ph.D., R.D.N., L.D., C.S.C.S.

Associate Director, Healthy Living

Biography


Healthy Living Team

Located at the Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center

Dr. Chad Rethorst
Associate Professor 
chad.rethorst@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe
Assistant Professor
lexi.macmillanuribe@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Jacob S. Szeszulski
Assistant Professor
jacob.szeszulski@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Priscilla Ayine
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Priscilla.ayine@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Phrashiah Githinji
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
phrashiah.githinji@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Margaret Demment
Lead Data Analyst
margaret.demment@ag.tamu.edu
Meredith Graham
Research Data Scientist
meredith.graham@ag.tamu.edu
Vi Luong
Healthy Living Program
Operations Manager
vi.luong@ag.tamu.edu
Lily Benner
Healthy Living Research Specialist
lily.benner@ag.tamu.edu
Meghan Kershaw
Healthy Living Research Specialist
meghan.kershaw@ag.tamu.edu
Dr. Deyaun Villarreal
Healthy Living Research Specialist
deyaun.villarreal@ag.tamu.edu
Erika Largacha
Healthy Living Research Associate
erika.l@ag.tamu.edu
Ashlee Gardner
Healthy Living Research Specialist
ashlee.gardner@ag.tamu.edu
Anita On
Healthy Living Research Associate
anita.on@ag.tamu.edu
Lucy Xin
Healthy Living Research Associate
lucy.xin@ag.tamu.edu
Allyson Shaefers
Allyson Schaefers headshot
Healthy Living Research Associate
allyson.shaefers@ag.tamu.edu

Associate Members

The following researchers are IHA Associate Members who have active Healthy Living research projects underway:

Marco A. Palma
Department of Agricultural Economics, Human Behavior Laboratory

Project title: Implementing Nutritional Interventions to Enhance Compliance and Adoption of Healthier Lifestyles.

Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe
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.

Jacob S. Szeszulski
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.

Chad Rethorst
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.

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