Obesity Research Interest Group-Sponsored Workshop
“What Investigators Need to Know about
Dissemination and Implementation Research”
Alice Ammerman, DrPH, University of North Carolina
2:00 – 4:00pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
Human Development & Family Studies
Marketing Department
UConn Health School of Medicine
School of Business
UConn Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Location
Colloquium Room (1st floor)
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ammerman is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (a CDC Prevention Research Center or PRC). She completed undergraduate work at Duke and graduate training at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the design, testing, implementation, and dissemination of innovative clinical and community-based nutrition and physical activity intervention approaches for health promotion in primarily low income and minority populations. Current projects focus on behavioral economics, school nutrition, the interface between healthy food access and sustainable local food systems , and social entrepreneurship as an approach to addressing public health concerns.
For more information, contact:
Megan Zhou at megan.zhou@chip.uconn.edu or Kim Gans at Kim.Gans@chip.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Megan at 860-486-5079