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Affiliated PhD Student

Audrey Blewer

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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

About

Audrey L Blewer, MPH, is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and the Assistant Director for Educational Programs at the Center for Resuscitation Science. Prior to her arrival at the University of Pennsylvania, Audrey completed a master’s degree in public health at the University of Florida. Ms. Blewer’s scholarly interests lie at the intersection of resuscitation science, health disparities research, health education, and implementation science. In her current work, Ms. Blewer is examining how CPR training dissemination strategies can be expanded, and tailored, to target geographic, racial, and socioeconomic disparities in layperson CPR education and bystander CPR delivery. 

 

Affiliated PhD Student

Alison Culyba

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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

About

Alison Culyba, MD MPH, is an Adolescent Medicine Advanced Research Fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Epidemiology PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania with expertise in strengths-based approaches to youth violence prevention. She completed medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, residency training in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and fellowship training in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She obtained an MPH from Harvard University with a focus on adolescent health and injury prevention. Her clinical experiences caring for violence-affected youth in West Philadelphia motivate and inform her research efforts. Her research focuses on the role of individual, family, and neighborhood-level promotive factors in reducing violence involvement among youth in urban environments. Employing novel GIS methods, her current research examines the role of supportive adult family members in reducing the risk of severe assault injuries among male youth in urban environments. 

 

Selected Publications

Wiebe DJ, Blackstone MM, Mollen CJ, Culyba AJ, Fein JA.: Self-Reported Violence-Related Outcomes for Adolescents within Eight Weeks of Emergency Department Treatment for Assault Injury.  J AD Health. 49(4): 440-442, Oct: 2011.

 

Faculty Fellow

Karen Glanz

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George A. Weiss University Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Professor of Nursing

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

About

Karen Glanz is George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Professor of Nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences in the School of Nursing and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is Director of the UPenn Prevention Research Center and serves on the NHLBI Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. Her research seeks to understand health behavior and improve it through education, public policy, and organizational change. A globally influential public health scholar, her work spans psychology, epidemiology, nutrition, and other disciplines. Her research in community and health care settings covers healthy eating, obesity prevention, cancer prevention and control, chronic disease management and control, reducing health disparities, and health communication technologies. She has published more than 440 journal articles and book chapters. Thomson Reuters named her one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015” in general social sciences. The Institute for Scientific Information has named her a Most Highly Cited Researcher. Over the past 15 years, Glanz has received more than $45 million in research funding. 

Selected Publications

Cain KL, Gavand KA, Conway TL, Geremia CM, Millstein RA, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Adams MA, Glanz K, King AC, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Developing and validating an abbreviated version of the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS-Abbreviated).” Journal of Transport & Health.

Wang X, Conway TL, Cain KL, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Geremia C, Kerr J, Glanz K, Carlson JA, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Interactions of psychosocial factors with built environments in explaining adolescents’ active transportation.” Preventive Medicine.

Carlson JA, Mitchell TB, Saelens BE, Staggs VS, Kerr J, Frank LD, Schipperijn J, Conway TL, Glanz K, Chapman JE, Cain KL, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Within-person associations of young adolescents’ physical activity across five primary locations: Is there evidence of cross-location compensation?” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity.

James P, Hart JE, Hipp JA, Mitchell JA, Kerr J, Hurvitz PM, Glanz K, Laden F. 2017 (in press). “GPS-based exposure to greenness and walkability and accelerometry-based physical activity.” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Glanz K, Johnson L, Yaroch A, Phillips M, Ayala G, Davis E. 2016. “Measures of Retail Food Store Environments and Sales:  Review and Implications for Healthy Eating Initiatives.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 48: 280-288.

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