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. 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.