Posted on October 6, 2008
We recently received a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK; 1R01DK078798) designed to test the efficacy of an intervention to prevent the transition to obesity among overweight women. The grant will use a socioculturally-appropriate approach, delivered to participants through several new media modalities over an 18-month period.
Read more about the study here.
Posted on September 1, 2008
Those of you who’ve sent emails will be happy to know that we’re finally updating the site. To prepare for the move down South, we’ll be adding new content over the next few weeks. Subscribe to the site to keep up with the changes.
Posted on August 30, 2008
We’re seeking a full-time project director for an NIDDK R01-funded trial of a new media obesity prevention intervention for Black adult women in the primary care setting. The project director will manage all day-to-day aspects of study implementation, including personnel management. This position will require knowledge and experience in intervention research, excellent management and communication skills, and comfort with new media technologies. The project director will be based at Duke University and some local travel may be required. The position will be fully funded for a five-year term (ending August 30, 2012).
Download a pdf version of the job announcement.
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Posted on August 30, 2008
Over the next few months, we’ll be hiring for a number of positions at our new home at Duke University. If you’re interested in working (and playing) hard while discovering new approaches for curbing the obesity epidemic, drop us a line. We’ll post specific job announcements as they emerge. In the meantime, send your cover letter and resume/cv to us at jobs@bennettlab.org
I am very pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position at Duke University, to begin in January 2009. This is a very bittersweet moment for me, as I’ve really enjoyed my time at HSPH and DFCI. Moving to Duke however, represents a major opportunity for the BennettLab to expand our work investigating strategies to reduce obesity among those most affected.
If you have any questions about the move, please let us know!
The bennettlab is based at the Harvard School of Public Health and in the Center for Community-Based Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Our work is focused on developing strategies to prevent obesity in high risk populations. Our research program has three major themes: 1) use of new media technologies to deliver obesity interventions; 2) examining the impact of social contextual factors on obesity and physical inactivity, and; 3) exploring the dissemination of evidence-based interventions. Many of our ongoing research studies are based in the primary care setting, where efficacious obesity intervention approaches are particularly necessary. A major focus of our work is health disparities and we're heavily invested in understanding why rates of obesity vary by a range of demographic characteristics. Underlying all of our research is the goal of developing empirically supported solutions that can be used to reduce obesity in the US population.