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Reducing
Disease Risk in Low-income, Postpartum Women
- Principal Investigator: Karen Peterson,
Sc.D., R.D.
- Institution: 1 R01 HD37368-01
- Grant Number: Harvard School of Public Health
- Program Official: Dr. Gilman Grave
Using the existing federal WIC program, this educational
program aims to improve dietary and activity patterns among very low income, multi-ethnic
(78% minority) post-partum women over a 12-month period, followed by a 6 month maintenance
period. Six-hundered and eighty women participating in WIC will be randomly assigned to
WIC or WIC Plus. This outstanding grant application incorporates an educational program
promoting nutrition and activity for minority mothers into an existing Expanded Food and
Nutrition Program.
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Reducing
Disease Risk in Low-income, Postpartum Women
Investigators
Karen E. Peterson, D.Sc.
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
Dept. of Maternal & Child Health
and Nutrition
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
tel. (617) 432-4028 / fax. (617) 432-3755 |
Meredith Pearson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Nutrition Education Program Coordinator
University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Department
206A Chenoweth Laboratory, Box 31420
Amherst, MA 01003-1420
tel. (413) 545-1693 / fax. (413) 577-4320 |
James R. Hebert, MSPH, Sc.D.
Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Arnold School of Public Health
University of South Carolina/
Director, Statewide Cancer Prevention & Control Program
Hollings Cancer Center and South Carolina Cancer Center
Richland Medical Park #14, Suite 500
Columbia, SC 29203
tel. (803) 434-6009 / fax. (803) 434-2609 |
Rachel Levine, M.S.
Acting Scientific Director
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
tel. (617) 432-3726 / fax. (617) 432-3755 |
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