Faculty

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

George A. Weiss University Professor

Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
801 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021

Office: 215-898-0613
Fax: 215-573-5315

Email:
kglanz@upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
B.A. (With Distinction, in Spanish)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974.
M.P.H. (Health Behavior and Health Education)
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, 1977.
Ph.D. (Health Behavior and Health Education)
University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Ann Arbor, 1979.

Links
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UPenn - DBEI
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Perelman School of Medicine
Penn Nursing
Center for Health Behavior Research
Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS)
Community Engagement and Research Core
UPenn Prevention Research Center

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Selected Publications

Glanz K, Kather C, Chung A, Choi JR, Volpp KG, Clapp J.: Qualitative study of perceptions of factors contributing to success or failure among participants in a US weight loss trial of financial incentives and environmental change strategies. BMJ Open 14: e078111, Mar 2024.

Glanz K, Fultz AK, Sallis JF, Clawson M, McLaughlin KC, Green S, Saelens BE.: Use of the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey: A Systematic Review. Am J Prev Med 2023.

Glanz K, Chen J, Joffe S.: Understanding risk factors for cancer: What's new and how can it help reduce the cancer burden? Cancer 128: 3443-3445, Oct 2022.

Glanz K, Kwong PL, Avelis J, Cassel K.: Development of a Survey of Sunscreen Use and Attitudes among Adults in Two Coastal States, 2019. Int J Environ Res Public Health 19: 2677, Feb 2022.

Guerra CE, Kelly S, Redlinger C, Hernandez P, Glanz K.: Pancreatic cancer treatment trials accrual: A closer look at participation rates. Amer J Clin Oncology. 44: 227-231, 2021.

George M, Bruzzese JM, Lynn S Sommers M, Pantalon MV, Jia H, Rhodes J, Norful AA, Chung A, Chittams J, Coleman D, Glanz K.: Group-randomized trial of tailored brief shared decision-making to improve asthma control in urban black adults. J Adv Nurs 2021.

Vapiwala N, Miller D, Laventure B, Woodhouse K, Kelly S, Avelis J, Baffic C, Goldston R, Glanz K.: Stigma, beliefs and perceptions regarding prostate cancer among Black and Latino men and women. BMC Public Health 21: 758, Apr 2021.

Guerra CE, Kelly S, Redlinger C, Hernández P, Glanz K.: Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Treatment Trials Accrual: A Closer Look at Participation Rates. Am J Clin Oncol 44: 227-231, Jun 2021.

Glanz K, Shaw PA, Kwong PL, Choi JR, Chung A, Zhu J, Huang QE, Hoffer K, Volpp KG.: Effect of Financial Incentives and Environmental Strategies on Weight Loss in the Healthy Weigh Study: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open 4: e2124132, Sep 2021.

Heckman CJ, Riley M, Khavjou O, Ohman-Strickland P, Manne SL, Yaroch AL, Bhurosy T, Coups EJ, Glanz K.: Cost, reach, and representativeness of recruitment efforts for an online skin cancer risk reduction intervention trial for young adults. Transl Behav Med 11: 1875-1884, Oct 2021.

Glanz K, Chung A, Morales KH, Kwong PL, Wiebe D, Giordano DP, Brensinger CM, Karpyn A: The Healthy Food Marketing Strategies Study: Design, baseline characteristics and supermarket compliance. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 10(6): 1266-1276, Dec 2020.

Bleakley A, Jordan AB, Strasser AA, Lazovich D, Glanz K.: Testing General Versus Specific Behavioral Focus in Messaging for the Promotion of Sun Protection Behaviors. Ann Behav Med 54: 108-118, Jan 2020.

Jordan AB, Bleakley A, Alber JM, Lazovich D, Glanz K.: Developing and Testing Message Strategies to Reduce Indoor Tanning. Am J Health Behav 44: 292-301, May 2020.

Karpyn A, Young CR, Collier Z, Glanz K.: Correlates of Healthy Eating in Urban Food Desert Communities. Int J Environ Res Public Health 17: 6305, Aug 2020.

Karpyn A, McCallops K, Wolgast H, Glanz K.: Improving Consumption and Purchases of Healthier Foods in Retail Environments: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health 17: 7524, Oct 2020.

Bleakley A, Tam V, Orchinik J, Glanz K.: How individual and neighborhood characteristics relate to health topic awareness and information seeking. SSM Popul Health 12: 100657, Aug 2020.

Bleakley A, Tam V, Orchinik J, Glanz K.: How individual and neighborhood characteristics relate to health topic awareness and information seeking. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health. 12: 100657, 2020.

Glanz K, Fenoglio C, Quinn R, Karpyn A, Giordano DP. : Consumers’ ability to distinguish between milk types: results of blind taste testing. Family and Community Health. Oct 2020.

Glanz K, Green S, Avelis J, Melvin CL: Putting Evidence Academies into Action: Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Tobacco Control Science. Preventive Medicine. 129: 105848, 2019.

Glanz K, Shaw P, Hoffer K, Chung A, Zhu J, Wu R, Huang Q, Choi J, Volpp K.: The Healthy Weigh Study of Lottery-based Incentives and Environmental Strategies for Weight Loss: Design and Baseline Characteristics. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 76: 24-30, 2019.

Glanz K, Jordan A, Lazovich DA, Bleakley A: Frequent Indoor Tanners’ Beliefs About Indoor Tanning and Cessation. American Journal of Health Promotion. 33(2): 293-299, 2019.