Association of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake with Maternal Postpartum Weight Retention.
Mahabamunuge J, Simione M, Hong B, Horan C, Ayala SG, Davison K, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Public Health Nutr. 2020 Dec 18. 1-23. PMID: 33336643
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Nutrition
Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition
Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Family-centered interventions for obesity prevention
2. Parenting effects on youth physical activity and screen-based behaviors
3. Development and application of conceptual models for obesity prevention
4. Program evaluation; longitudinal research designs
My research primarily focuses on family- and community-level factors that influence children's lifestyle behaviors (diet, physical activity, screen-based activities) and risk of obesity. Key topics that I have researched to date include familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls’ physical activity. More recently, my work has focused on the development and evaluation of family-centered interventions for obesity prevention in low-income children, including children enrolled in WIC and Head Start. A primary emphasis of these programs is the need to consider the family unit as a whole and address factors beyond the family (e.g., community resources, media factors) that impact on intrafamilial interactions around healthy lifestyles.
A secondary focus of my work is the development and application of conceptual models that foster a stronger understanding of the contextual, developmental and behavioral origins of obesity in children and adolescents. Examples include the Ecological Model of Childhood Obesity (Davison & Birch 2001), the Family Ecological Model (Davison & Campell, 2005) and the Family Action-based Model of Intervention Layout and Implementation (FAMILI)) (Davison, Lawson, & Coatsworth, in press).
Mahabamunuge J, Simione M, Hong B, Horan C, Ayala SG, Davison K, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Public Health Nutr. 2020 Dec 18. 1-23. PMID: 33336643
Neri Mini F, Saltzman JA, Simione M, Luo M, Perkins ME, Roche B, Blake-Lamb T, Kotelchuck M, Arauz-Boudreau A, Davison K, Taveras EM.
Glob Pediatr Health. 2020. 7:2333794X20975628. PMID: 33294495
Figueroa R, Gago CM, Beckerman-Hsu J, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Yu X, Davison KK, Jurkowski JJ.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 11 20. 17(22). PMID: 33233860
Davison KK, Haneuse S.
Contemp Clin Trials. 2020 12. 99:106205. PMID: 33152514
Quante M, Hong B, Ash T, Yu X, Kaplan ER, Rueschman M, Jackson C, Haneuse S, Davison K, Taveras EM, Redline S.
Sleep. 2020 Oct 24. PMID: 33098646
Yu X, Quante M, Rueschman M, Ash T, Kaplan ER, Guo N, Horan CM, Haneuse S, Davison K, Taveras EM, Redline S.
Sleep. 2020 Oct 15. PMID: 33057653
Passarelli S, Ambikapathi R, Gunaratna NS, Madzorera I, Canavan CR, Noor AR, Worku A, Berhane Y, Abdelmenan S, Sibanda S, Munthali B, Madzivhandila T, Sibanda LM, Geremew K, Dessie T, Abegaz S, Assefa G, Sudfeld C, McConnell M, Davison K, Fawzi W.
J Nutr. 2020 10 12. 150(10):2806-2817. PMID: 32652012
Ash T, Taveras EM, Redline S, Haneuse S, Quante M, Davison K.
Ann Behav Med. 2020 Sep 11. PMID: 32914840
Beckerman-Hsu JP, Aftosmes-Tobio A, Gavarkovs A, Kitos N, Figueroa R, Kalyoncu ZB, Lansburg K, Yu X, Kazik C, Vigilante A, Leonard J, Torrico M, Jurkowski JM, Davison KK.
Trials. 2020 Jul 23. 21(1):674. PMID: 32703293
Figueroa R, Saltzman JA, Kang A, Mini FN, Davison KK, Taveras EM.
BMC Public Health. 2020 Jul 06. 20(1):1071. PMID: 32631291
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