Research Project Archive

2008

2008 fall - Lloyd Kolbe is appointed to chair the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Coordinating Center for Health Promotion. For the next four years, Dr. Kolbe will chair a 15-member board of the nation's top scientists who advise the DHHS secretary and the CDC director about strategies and goals for programs and research within the national centers that comprise the Coordinating Center. These include the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention.
2008 fall - School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation is broadening its work in the Dominican Republic to include a new field laboratory at which students and faculty will work with local communities to address critical health needs. Zobeida Bonilla, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science, will begin this work in February, 2009, when she engages community leaders in a village near the Haitian border in a strategic planning process geared toward addressing their health and medical needs. Many Haitians cross the border into the Dominican Republic seeking better economic opportunities, putting pressure on existing resources. Dean Goodman said HPER is working with a non-profit, private organization called Batey Relief Alliance to support and build upon health-oriented work in impoverished border areas.
2008 fall - Michael Reece has been elected to serve as Chair of the HIV/AIDS Section of the American Public Health Association. The HIV/AIDS Section has a membership of over 1,200 public health professionals and scholars and plays a significant role in shaping HIV-related policy for the nation’s largest public health professional association.
2008 fall - Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin is working with the Indiana Department of Education on the implementation of workshops across the state of Indiana for health and physical education teachers, administrators, and school nurses. The workshop is titled, “What do Teachers Want to Know.” Two of her colleagues on this program are AHS Alum Lisa Angermeier, PhD (Assistant Clinical Professor at IUPUI) and Denise Seabert, PhD (Associate Professor at Ball State University).
2008 fall - Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin is also working with Volunteers in Medicine on a project to plan, implement, and evaluate a patient wellness program. Students from the AmeriCorps program , Emily Brush and Peggy Sullivan, are assisting her with this project.
2008 fall - Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin is working with St. Vincent of Jennings County on their Community Health Needs Assessment project. She is responsible for analyzing the data and presenting the results to their Hospital Leadership and Administrative team. Peggy Sullivan, MPH student, is assisting her with this project.
2008 fall - Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin and Jennifer Staab, MS, MCCSC Healthy Schools Coordinator (and AHS Alum) presented at the 2008 American School Health Association meeting in Tampa, FL on the MCCSC sexuality survey, specifically discussing the process of including community members, parents, students, school administrators, religious leaders, and health care providers in the development and implementation of the survey.
2008 fall - Mary Boutain, MPH student, presented data at APHA from the Bloomington Hospital of Orange County Community Health Needs Assessment project, on which she assisted Dr. Lesa Lorenzen-Huber and Dr. Catherine Sherwood in the data collection and analysis. Data were collected at the Indiana Rural Health Association meeting in French Lick, IN.
2008 fall - Ashley Skooglund, MPH student, received the Best Student Abstract Award from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) Section at APHA in San Diego for her paper entitled “Monroe County Drug Treatment Court: Identifying and Examining Factors that Promote Social Functioning.”
2008 fall - Noy Kay presented a paper, ”Barriers in Teaching Sex Education in Thailand” at the American School Health Association Conference in Tampa, Florida, November 12-15, 2008.
2008 fall - Debra Herbenick has signed a contract with Rodale Press to write a book about sexual pleasure and enjoyment that will be research-backed but written for a general audience. Dr. Herbenick is a widely read sexual health columnist and contributor/host for Kinsey Confidential, a sexuality information service sponsored by the Kinsey institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and reproduction.
2008 fall - Fernando Ona and the Monroe County Health Department are conducting a participatory health assessment for the county. The resulting Monroe County Health Assessment (MoCHA) Project is a collaboration of community partners including Dr. Ona's HPER research team, the MCHD, Bloomington Hospital, Monroe Hospital, the Center for behavioral Health, and the City of Bloomington Community and Health Family Resources Department. They have held a series of town hall meetings to assess health needs, develop health priorities, and recommend programming for each of Monroe County's 11 townships.
2008 fall - Debby Herbenick and the Center for Sexual Health Promotion found that young, female breast cancer survivors often suffer from sexual and intimate relationship issues and are interested in using sexual enhancement products to treat these problems. The study, "Young Female Breast Cancer Survivors: Their sexual function and interest in sexual enhancement products and services," was published Nov. 4 in the journal Cancer Nursing. The study was funded by The Patty Brisben Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering research related to women's sexual health.
2008 fall - Leila Dabbagh was one of 4 recipients of a HPER Faculty Research Support Grant for 2009 for her study of aphasia. Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage caused by a sudden stroke or unexpected head injury or a slow growing tumor to portions of the brain that are responsible for language.
2008 fall - Several researchers from the Department are participating in the American Public Health Association's annual meeting on Oct. 25-29 in San Diego. The following studies are examples: "Caregivers in a pickle" by Dong-Chul Seo et al. and "Eating in a grab and go world" by Alice K. Lindeman et al.
2008 fall - David Lohrmann conducted needs assessment and planning workshops based on “Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card” for school professionals in Arkansas, New Mexico, Idaho, Michigan, Indiana, and Tennessee as well as at the mid –year meeting of SOPHE. He also provided a presentation on the MICHIANA Coordinated School Health Program Leadership Institute at the Annual Conference of the American School Health Association.
2008 fall - Trent Applegate, along with doctoral students Lauren Boyle and MPH student Adam Karcz, presented at the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) Meeting Oct.23-25 in San Diego, CA. Their presentation was titled “CPR/AED Skill Retention among College Students.” Others involved in the research but not attending the conference were Kristin Skala (MS in School and College Health , Dec. 2008) and Eric Holton (Doctoral student in Human Performance).
2008 fall - Lloyd Kolbe spoke at the 2008 INShape Indiana Health Summit on the IUB Campus, October 15.
2008 fall - Cecilia Obeng has won an outstanding paper award for her article on "Culture and Dental Health among African Immigrants School-aged Children in the United States" published in Health education.
2008 fall - David Lohrmann published an article entitled “A Complimentary Ecological Model of the Coordinated School Health Program” in Public Health Reports and an article co-authored with alumnus Swati Raychowdhury entitled “Oral Cancer Risk Behaviors Among Indiana College Students: A Formative Research Study” in the Journal of American College Health.
2008 fall - Shahla Ray, who teaches both Human Nutrition HPER-N 231 and Obesity and Health HPER-H 235 for AHS, has been conducting research with Nutrition Science senior Amanda Wood on the “Freshman Fifteen,” a term for the weight students gain in college. Their study was presented at the 2008 Obesity Society’s annual meeting and mentioned in USA Today.
2008 fall - Susan Middlestadt is the recipient of the 2008 School of HPER Outstanding researcher Award. Dr. Middlestadt's work includes theory and decision-based research to design and evaluate communication and behavior change programs in health, as well as psychosocial and behavioral issues underlying health behaviors, such as HIV/STD and pregnancy prevention, immunization, school health, health care seeking, physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco.
2008 fall - Mohammad Torabi co-authored a textbook chapter: Torabi, M.R., Perera, P.B., & Seo, D.C. , “Attitudes as an Important Predisposition to Health Behavior,” in New Perspectives on Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Health, Chapter X, pp.217-229, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008.
2008 fall - Mohammad Torabi is named recipient of the 2009 Alliance Scholar Award by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD). Dr. Torabi's research focuses on measurement and evaluation of school and public health education programs, health promotion, and factors associated with health behavior. He will give Alliance Scholar presentations during the 2008-09 academic year.
2008 fall - William Yarber and the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention conducted a survey regarding whether vaccination against the human papillomavirus should be mandatory for middle school students. Results showed that Hoosier adults were three times more likely to oppose a mandatory vaccination if they also believed it would encourage youth to have sex.
2008 fall - Aaron Jones and the Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP) of IPRC conducted 6,625 unannounced inspections of retail outlets across Indiana in 2007. Results showed that efforts to reduce tobacco sales to minors in Indiana lost ground slightly in 2007, returning to the 2005 rate of 12.7% and ending six consecutive years of reduced sales.
2008 summer – Lloyd Kolbe has been asked by the Chinese government to help it implement new national guidelines requiring the country's 1.6 million schools to provide students with daily physical activity. The move is an attempt to reverse a burgeoning obesity problem in China. The Chinese initiative, aimed at the nation's 320 million school children, is called "Sunny Sports China." Kolbe said government officials want their sports universities to continue producing elite athletes. But they also want them to focus more on helping citizens to incorporate physical activity into their daily routines through programs such as "Sunny Sports China," which will also include a recreational component for leisure time.
2008 summer – Millicent Fleming-Moran, PhD, presents her study entitled "Promoting Active Living: Four Indiana Communities Improve Local Environments for Physical Activity" at 2008 IPHA Conference.
2008 summer – Erick Amick, Ariane Hollub, M.Ed., Michael Reece, PhD, MPH, Mabel Nangami, PhD, Karin Lane, Andreia Alexander, MPH, & Mallory Metzger present their study entitled "Indiana University’s Role in International Family Health: An Assessment of Male Spousal Involvement in HIV-related Services in Western Kenya" at 2008 IPHA Conference.
2008 summer – Christopher M. Fisher, MA, Nathan Stupiansky, MS, Kristen Joskowski, MS, Sonya Satinsky, MPH, Lindsay Briggs, MPH, Brian Dodge, PhD, and Michael Reece, PhD, MPH present "Sexual Health in Indiana: A Research Update from the IU Center for Sexual Health Promotion" at 2008 IPHA Conference.
2008 summer – Noy Kay and doctoral student Kaigang Li presented a paper entitled, “Using WHOQOL – BREF in Predicting Suicidal Behaviors,” at the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, April 30 – May 3, 2008, Montreal, Canada.
2008 spring – Mohammad Torabi received the 2009 Alliance Scholar Award, which is the highest honor for research bestowed by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Each year only one Alliance Scholar is chosen from within the organizations that form the Alliance. Dr. Torabi is only the fifth health educator to receive this honor.
2008 spring – March 27 Herald Times features a front page article on the local rise in teen STD’s quoting Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin.
2008 spring – Brian Dodge was selected as one of three recipients for the School of HPER Faculty Research Support Program grants. He will serve as Co-Principal Investigator of “A Pilot Study to Evaluate Field Collection of Rectal Samples for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Diagnostics,” together with Dr. Barbara Van Der Pol of the Department of Infectious Disease at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The project is a collaborative effort among the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, the Indiana University School of Medicine, and The Bell Flower Clinic of the Marion County Health Department. The data from this pilot study will be directly integrated into a developing grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health.
2008 spring - Brian Dodge has been invited as a keynote speaker for "Discussions on HIV/AIDS Among Gay and Nongay Identifying African American Men Who Have Sex with Men & Men Who Have Sex with Both Men and Women: Addressing Pertinent Psychosocial Issues" at the University of California at Los Angeles in May 2008. This community collaborative think tank event (co-sponsored by The UCLA AIDS Institute, The UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma & Mental Health Disparities, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science) is hosted by Gail E. Wyatt, Ph.D., (Director, The UCLA AIDS Institute) and funded by Gilead Pharmaceuticals.
2008 spring – Dong-Chul Seo, Carolin Requiz, and Mohammad R. Torabi present their study entitled "Impact of Black and Minority Health Fair and 15-Month Delayed Follow-Up Health Counseling on Health Behavior" at the 2008 Annual Conference of the American Academy of Health Behavior.
2008 spring – Maresa Murray is one of recipients of Summer Instructional Development Fellowships. The grant will allow her to expand the existing pilot research project titled "Media Usage as a Pedagogical Strategy for Building Classroom Resiliency among Ethnic Minority Professors." This instructional research project examines the perceptions and negotiations of ethnic minority professors in university classrooms.
2008 spring – Center for Sexual Health Promotion has entered into a unique 3-year agreement with one of the world's leading sexual health products companies, Church & Dwight, maker of Trojan brand condoms. The agreement establishes the center as a strategic research, education and consulting partner with Trojan.
2008 spring – Center for Sexual Health Promotion collaborates with the Damien Center, Bethlehem House, and the Bellflower Clinic on UNISON project to respond to the lack of academic-community partnerships focused on HIV prevention and care in Indiana.
2008 spring – Center for Sexual Health Promotion has new partnership with industry partners in the Netherlands, Germany, England, Slovenia, Belgium, and Malaysia associated with advancements in condom manufacturing.
2008 spring – Indiana University and its partner, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, have been selected as one of eight new education centers to provide training for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Cheryl Holmes will be the program director for the new Heartland Safety and Health Education Center which is required to offer OSHA's Outreach Education Program in construction and general industry standards but also can expand to address other safety and health topics.
2008 spring – "Conversations in the Abbey: Senior Monks of Saint Meinrad Reflect on Their Lives," by Ruth Clifford Engs, Prof. Emeritus, is coming out in early January. Dr. Engs interviewed 11 monks, born before 1931, who discuss their early years at the monastery, their work and spiritual experiences, and their view of various changes in society over the past sixty years.

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