News & Upcoming Events
- Click here to watch Dr Karen Glanz disucss her new paper published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine on supermarket strategies and obesity.
-
Two special issues devoted to the measurement of physical activity by objective monitoring and self-report have been published and are available online with open access:
Objective Measurement of Physical Activity: Best Practices and Future Directions
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Measurement of Active and Sedentary Behaviors: Closing the Gaps in Self-Report Methods
Journal of Physical Activity and Health
- CHBR Research Assistant Lauren Johnson has been named a Hillman Scholar, a very exciting opportunity in the School of Nursing that provides support for nurse researchers throughout the PhD program. Congratulations Lauren!
The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Behavior Research is working to become an epicenter for fundamentals of behavioral research on the Penn campus. Together with collaborators from the Penn community and other social science and public health professionals, we are working to advance the development, application and testing of health behavior measurement and theories in clinical and population-based research.
- We conduct and collaborate on innovative research on prevention, intervention, and program development for health behaviors. Applied health behavior theory is central to our work.
- We collaborate with other researchers to develop and evaluate relevant health behavior measurement tools to answer research questions
- We provide consultation to behavioral researchers who want to develop or refine a theoretical basis for their line of inquiry
- We provide a center for training, mentoring and supporting students, postdoctoral fellows and junior scientists in health behavior research