Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
George A. Weiss University Professor
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economies (CHIBE)
Distinguished Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC)
Faculty Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR)
Member, Skin Diseases Research Core, U Penn Skin Diseases Research Core Center
Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
Member, Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism and Diabetes (IDOM) Endocrinology Research Center (DERC)
Member, Health and Behavior Research Affinity Group (HB-RAG), CHOP Research Institute (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
Member, Center for Health Equity Research, U Penn School of Nursing
Member and Core Director, ROAR (Recruitment, Outcomes, Assessment & Retention), Abramson Cancer Center (ACC)
Member, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Graduate Group, Biomedical Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economies (LDI)
Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI)
Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
801 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: 215-898-0613
Fax: 215-573-5315
Fax: 215-573-5315
Email:
kglanz@upenn.edu
kglanz@upenn.edu
Publications
Links
Search PubMed for articles
Perelman School of Medicine
Community Engagement and Research Core
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Penn Nursing
Center for Health Behavior Research
UPenn - DBEI
UPenn Prevention Research Center
Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS)
Search PubMed for articles
Perelman School of Medicine
Community Engagement and Research Core
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Penn Nursing
Center for Health Behavior Research
UPenn - DBEI
UPenn Prevention Research Center
Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS)
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.
Permanent linkB.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.
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.