Current Research Interests

• Community-based Prevention Marketing approach to bring about social change
• Building community capacity to design and implement behavioral interventions
• Psychosocial determinants of health behavior

Grant Support

The Florida Prevention Research Center at the University of South Florida

Support to develop and evaluate a community-based prevention marketing intervention model for preventing disease and disability. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, approximately $1 million dollars per year. Principal Investigator and Co-Director.

Community-Based Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity through the VERB Program. 

Support to assist state and local health departments to implement a community-based prevention marketing intervention to promote physical activity.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $128,451 for 2005-2006. Co-Principal Investigator.