Prevention, Policy, and Public Health
Edited by Amy A. Eyler, Jamie F. Chriqui, Sarah Moreland-Russell, and Ross C. Brownson
Author Information
Edited by Amy A. Eyler, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, Edited by Jamie F. Chriqui, Professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Assistant Research Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, and Ross C. Brownson, Bernard Becker Professor of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis
Amy A. Eyler, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Public Health at the Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis. Her main research interests are health promotion through community policy and environmental interventions, with a focus on physical activity and obesity prevention. For over a decade, she served as Principal Investigator for the Physical Activity Policy Research Network (PAPRN), a national network of researchers to study the influence of policy on population physical activity.
Jamie F. Chriqui, PhD, MHS, is a Professor of Health Policy and Administration and a Fellow in the Institute for Health Research and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is considered a nationwide expert on public health policy surveillance and evaluation and has led or is involved with numerous nationwide studies examining public health policies and their impacts particularly on chronic disease risk factors including tobacco use, physical activity, diet and nutrition, obesity, and substance use. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She holds a B.A. in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University, an M.H.S.
Sarah Moreland-Russell, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Sarah is involved in several studies including those with national, state, and local level focus that assess public health policy implementation. Specifically, her research focuses on health policy analysis and evaluation, specifically regarding tobacco control and obesity prevention initiatives, organizational and systems science and evaluation, and dissemination and implementation of public health policies.
Ross C. Brownson, PhD, is the Bernard Becker Professor of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. He is involved in numerous community-level studies designed to understand and reduce modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, obesity, and tobacco use. In particular, he is interested in the impacts of environmental and policy interventions on health behaviors and he conducts research on dissemination of evidence-based interventions. His research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Contributors:
Gabriela J. Camberos
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Tonya Edmond
Brown School
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Robert Fields
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Roberta R. Friedman
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Shelley Golden
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC
Richard A. Grucza
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Melissa Jonson-Reid
Brown School
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Harry T. Kwon
Division of Research Education
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Rockville, MD
Janet L. Lauritsen
University of Missouri, St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Duane C. McBride
David E. Nelson
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Andrew D. Plunk
Department of Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA.
William G. Powderly
Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Jason Q. Purnell
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Christina N. Sansone
Institute for Health Research and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
F. David Schneider
Saint Louis University
St, Louis, MO
Marlene B. Schwartz
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Frederic E. Shaw
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Sarah Simon
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
David A. Sleet
Bradley Stoner
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath
Curtis W. VanderWaal
Sabrina K. Young
Emily B. Zimmerman
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Marissa Zwald
Brown School
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO