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 also incorporate novel engagement strategies that foster social support and community engagement to address the social and environmental factors that influence health.
Project: Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC) Urban Adaptation.
This project addresses disparities in health experienced by Black and Hispanic residents in Dallas through the tailoring an evidence-based program – Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities (SHHC). SHHC uses a multisectoral approach to target individual, social, environmental, regional, and cultural challenges that uniquely impact the cardiovascular disease risk of Black and Hispanic urban Texans. Effective adaptation of the SHHC program will result in an evidence-based program uniquely designed to improve the health of Black and Hispanics urban Texans, and our adaptation process will be replicable so that we can continue to adapt health promotion programs that address the needs of underrepresented and disadvantaged populations across Texas.