Area: Healthy Living
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Chad Rethorst
Associate Professor, Nutrition Project: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC) Digital Intervention. This project will develop a digital version of the evidence-based health behavior change intervention – Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities – leveraging cutting-edge technologies and intervention delivery approaches to optimize intervention effectiveness. The resulting digital intervention will not only target individual behavior change but will…
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Jacob Szeszulski
Assistant Professor, Nutrition Project: Optimizing the Effectiveness and Impact of the Healthy School Recognized Campus and Strong Teens for Healthy Schools Change Club Programs Partners with Extension educators to empower middle school teachers, administrators, and students to create transformative change in their school’s food systems and/or nutrition environments, improve food equity, and increase the school’s…
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Alexandra MacMillan Uribe
Assistant Professor, Nutrition Project: Produce Rx: Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Improving Cardiometabolic Health Indicators Among Urban, Low-Income Adults and Caregiver-Toddler Dyads. This project will test an incentive model in which healthcare providers “prescribe” fruit and vegetable boxes paired with cooking and nutrition education among low-income and disadvantaged adults with cardiovascular disease and toddlers…
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Rebecca Seguin-Fowler
Rebecca Seguin-Fowler is Associate Director for the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture at Texas A&M University. As a public health scientist with expertise in community-based nutrition and physical activity intervention research, she provides leadership for the organization’s social and behavioral intervention research initiatives via the Healthy Living program. She is also chief scientific officer for the Healthy Texas Institute, professor in…
