About Us
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, particularly in the commercial marketplace. Our obesity research is based in a number of settings, including community health centers and public housing. 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.
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I am currently on academic leave from HSPH and DFCI to develop a new area of intervention research. While I am gone, I will not be regularly checking my Harvard email, so please contact 