David Xavier Marquez in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition is completing a pilot study that uses Latin dance forms to increase physical activity.
The grant sustains the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, directed by Richard Warnecke and Elizabeth Calhoun, to test two strategies to improve breast cancer screening and treatment among African American and Latina women and to examine the biology of aggressive breast cancer.
The ImpacTeen project has been awarded a four-year, $16 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study policy and environmental factors that influence youth behaviors related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity and tobacco use.
