Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living

Founded in 2006, the vision of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living is healthy children in a healthy world, with a mission to serve as a state, national and international leader in the promotion of healthy living. We seek to achieve this through prevention and control of childhood obesity through healthy eating and physical activity, promotion of healthy living behaviors in youth, policy and environmental change, and professional education and community service.


 Dell Center 2009 Year in Review 

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4th Annual Child Health LectureshipSave the Date! - March 17, 2010
 2010 Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health and Social and Environmental Solutions to Obesity Conference 


Featured Program 

 


CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health)

CATCH logoInformation for CATCH grant proposals:

Grant Application: CATCH Can Be A Successful Part of Your "Communities Putting Prevention to Work"

CATCH Success Stories 

 


 

Featured Faculty

 

Dr. Melissa Stigler

 Melissa Stigler, Ph.D. 

Young Investigators Awards 2009


Featured Publications

Springer AE, McQueen A, Quintanilla G, Arrivillaga M, Ross M.  Reliability and validity of the Student Perceptions of School Cohesion Scale in a sample of Salvadoran secondary school students.  BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2009; 9:30.

Springer AE, Lewis K, Kelder SH, Fernandez ME, Barroso CS, Hoelscher DM.  Physical activity participation by parental language use in 4th, 8th and 11th grade students in Texas, USA.  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2009 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print]. 

Harrist RB , Dai S. Analytic Methods in Project Heartbeat! Am J Prev Med 2009;37(1S),S17-S24. PMID: 19524151 [PubMed - in process]

Perry CL, Stigler MH, Arora M, Reddy KS.  Preventing tobacco use among young people in India: Project MYTRI.  Am J Public Health. 2009 May;99(5):899-906. Epub 2009 Mar 19.

Babar AA, Stigler MH, Perry CL, Arora M, Shrivastav R, Reddy KS.  Tobacco- use psychosocial risk profiles of girls and boys in urban India: Implications for gender-specific tobacco intervention development.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2009; Epub 2009 Dec 11. 

Evans AE, Greenberg-Seth J, Smith S, Harris KK, Loyo JJ, Spaulding C, Gottlieb N. Parental feeding practices and concerns related to child underweight, picky eating, and using food to calm differ according to ethnicity/race, acculturation, and income. Maternal and Child Health Journal, Sept 2009; PMID:19771501 (10.1007/s10995-009-0526-6)

Roberts R.  The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(4), 2009, 405 – 415.


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