Results for "behavioral health"

Projects

PAID FACILITATOR POSITIONS AVAILABLE - Juntos Podemos (Together We Can)

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. The 4th year of the JUNTOS…

PAID RESEARCH ASSISANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE - JUNTOS School

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS…

PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE - JUNTOS PODEMOS

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS Familia Study…

UPDATED: The Family Asthma Study - Community-Based Intervention Research Study

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The Family Asthma Study is seeking undergraduate research assistants (RAs) with an interest in community-based research, health disparities, and behavioral interventions among low-SES Latinx families. The Family…

Faculty

Anton Avanceña

Affiliated Departments:
College of Pharmacy, Health Outcomes and Pharmacy Practice, Dell Medical School, Internal Medicine
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I am a decision scientist and health policy researcher who studies how efficiency and equity in health can be improved globally. My main area of research involves (1) understanding the health, economic, and social…

Richard Allen Brown

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Dell Medical School, School of Nursing
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Dr. Brown’s research has been focused across a variety of areas related to health behavior change, including the development of efficacious tobacco cessation treatments, specialized tobacco cessation treatments for…

Sae Hwang Han

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Human Development and Family Sciences
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Dr. Sae Han is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. His research interest is Social Determinants of Aging, Health, and Mortality:
• Couple dynamics, health behaviors…

Heather Leidy

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Dell Medical School, Dell Medical School
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Heather Leidy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences. She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics - Dell Medical School.  Dr. Leidy examines the effects of…

Brad Love

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, College of Communication, Advertising, Public Relations, Dell Medical School, School of Undergraduate Studies
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My research investigates the interplay of mass media and public health, particularly as it relates to combating disparities.
Recent work focuses on how young adults affected by cancer can use digital media (…

Deborah Parra-Medina

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Kinesiology & Health Education
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Dr. Parra-Medina is professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Latino Research Institute. Dr. Parra-Medina’s research and teaching focuses on…