Carolyn Voorhees, Research Associate Professor Joint appointment with Department
of Kinesiology
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College Park Office:
2358 HHP Bldg, Valley Drive
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.3466
ccv@umd.edu
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Dr. Carolyn Voorhees is a Research Associate Professor in the Department
of Public and Community Health, at the University of Maryland.
See also:
Education
- BS - University of Michigan
- MS - University of Michigan
- PhD - Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
- Fellow - National Institutes of Health
Research Interests
My projects currently relate to school and community based interventions
to increase physical activity in minority women and adolescent girls.
I take a behavioral social epidemiological perspective with an emphasis
on "social-ecologic models." Currently underway are three
national and one local study funded by NIH, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and CDC. My focus in all four studies is the relationship
between multi-level environmental factors (individual, social and
macro environment) and physical activity and obesity in adults and
adolescents. This research utilizes multiple methods both qualitative
and quantitative and employs Accelerometer, GIS, GPS/Audit technology
and sophisticated statistical modeling techniques where environmental
characteristics/risks are captured at both the individual level
and community level.
Courses Taught
- HLTH 471 Women's Health
- KNES 689T Epidemiology of Physical Activity
- HLTH 761 Environmental Health
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