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Afdhal, Nezam H.
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Austin, S. Bryn
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Christiani, David C.
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Cook, E. Francis
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S. Bryn Austin, ScD
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Department of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston
Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine
300 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: 617-355-8194
Fax: 617-730-0185
Email: bryn.austin@tch.harvard.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Austin is Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Childrens Hospital in Boston. Her primary research is in the behavioral sciences and social epidemiology, addressing social and physical environmental influences on eating disorders risk, nutritional patterns, and physical activity in school and community settings. In addition, her research interests include sexual orientation and health disparities and media and health communications. She received her doctorate from the Department of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Austin is lead author of studies on the role and challenges multidisciplinary teams face in implementing nutrition and physical activity policy and environmental change initiatives in schools and on the role of fast food outlets in school neighborhood environments. She is also lead author on two studies demonstrating the protective effect of the Planet Health curriculum on the development of eating disordered behaviors in early adolescent girls.
Selected Publications
Austin SB, Melly SJ, Sanchez BN, Patel A, Buka S, Gortmaker SL. Clustering of fast food restaurants around schools: a novel application of spatial statistics to the study of food environments. Am J Public Health 2005; 95(9): 1575-1581.
Austin SB, Fung T, Cohen-Bearak A, Wardle K, Cheung LYW. Facilitating change in school health: a qualitative study of schools experience using the Centers for Disease Controls School Health Index. Prev Chronic Dis (serial online) 2006; 3(2). Available at: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/apr/05_0116.htm.
Austin SB, Kim J, Wiecha J, Troped PJ, Feldman HA, Peterson KE. School-based overweight preventive intervention lowers incidence of disordered weight control behaviors in early adolescent girls. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (in press).
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