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Recent Scientific Accomplishments Voorhees’s research focuses on the social and environmental determinants that impact the health behavior of urban adolescents, primarily physical activity, nutrition and smoking. Over the past 2 years Dr Voorhees has been lead or coauthor on various papers investigating: social networks (American Journal of Health Behavior, 2005); adult supervision after school (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2006); reliability and validity of testing instruments (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, In Press); scale development for school climate (American Journal of Health Behavior, 2005); and family intimacy and crime (American Journal of Public Heath, In Press). These were all related to physical activity outcomes from a national sample of adolescent girls. Dr. Voorhees received a three year grant in 2005 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate social and neighborhood environmental factors related to physical activity and nutrition in 375 urban adolescents (Diversity Supplement 2006). This study builds on her earlier work from an NIH funded RO1 (Cohen DA, Rand Corporation P.I.; Voorhees CC UMD P.I.) ancillary study to a national clinical trial investigating community characteristics and physical activity, and a CDC study (Young DR P.I.) investigating social and environmental correlates of physical activity in African American and Latino women. Voorhees also has an R01 pending review at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study obesity and the transition between home and college. During the next 2 years, Voorhees?research will continue to focus on neighborhood environment and physical activity, nutrition and obesity in adolescents and children as manuscripts are written from the Robert Wood Johnson Funded study data. This includes a dissertation study grant looking at parks and recreation center access in urban areas, and completes data collection on a diversity partnership grant investigating food purchase and consumptions patterns and access to healthy foods in urban settings using multiple sources of data. Primary data collection includes student web-based survey, travel diary, 3 day recall, objectively measured physical activity, height and weight. Secondary data sources and analyses used in her research include census and GIS, Spatial and Multilevel analysis. | ||||||||
Maryland Population Research Center
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