Our aim is to serve ISBNPA members as a ‘community’ with an interest in exchanging and advancing knowledge into the socioeconomic inequalities in nutrition, physical activity and sedentary behaviours.
This SIG was established to:
Provide a forum for researchers with shared interests and expertise in socioeconomic inequalities in nutrition, physical activity and sedentary behaviours to exchange views, disseminate information, provide support, promote research, and encourage and organise activities such as symposia or workshops at the annual meeting.
SIG Team (see short bios after the affiliations section)
Lua Perimal-Lewis (CHAIR)
Focus Area: Newsletter
Dr Lua Perimal-Lewis (PhD, FAIDH)
Associate Professor
Palacký University Olomouc
Full Academic Status, College of Science and Engineering
Full Member, College of Science and Engineering, Medical Device Research Institute
Associate Member, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Caring Futures Institute
Associate Member, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders Digital Health Research Centre
M: +61 413 303 363
W: http://www.flinders.edu.au/digitalhealth/
W: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/lua.perimal-lewis
Chien Ju Ting (CO-CHAIR)
Focus Area: Newsletter
Dr Chien Ju Ting (PhD, MAppLangSt, BA, CELTA)
Research Officer -School of Sport and Recreation, School of Education
Copy editor -Te Kaharoa Journal
Auckland University of Technology
W: https://academics.aut.ac.nz/chien.ting
Salma Musaad (SOCIAL MEDIA)
Focus Area: Social Media
Dr Salma Musaad, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Nutrition and Biostatistics
USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
1100 Bates Street
Houston, TX 77030
713-798-7058
Mary Hearst
E: [email protected]
Focus Area: Workshops
Professor Mary O. Hearst, MPH, PhD
Pronouns: She/her
St. Catherine University | 2004 Randolph Avenue | St. Paul, MN 55105
Lua Perimal-Lewis
My research flagship area is in the area of Digital Health Supporting Our Ageing Society. I am the principal investigator on the Flinders Assistant for Memory Enhancement (FAME) study and project coordinator for the Dementia and Aged Care Services project. My expertise and experience are in the area of Health Informatics, Biostatistics, Data Science, Living lab, Hospital Patient Flow, Process Mining, Modelling and Simulation. I manage a team of junior researchers. As a team we conduct digital health intervention pilots with community dwelling individuals.
Chien Ju Ting
Chien is an early-career researcher who completed her PhD in 2021. Her PhD was related to Indigenous language revitalization and language policy analysis. She thrives on cross-disciplinary research. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to New Zealand in 2004. She is a Research Fellow at the Auckland University of Technology, The School of Sport and Recreation. She hopes to have the opportunity to catch up with the wider ISBNPA community next year.
Salma Musaad
I am currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biostatistics, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine. After obtaining my M.D. I developed a love for research and completed an NIEHS-funded Ph.D. fellowship in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, with an emphasis on Children’s Environmental Health. I was trained by a mathematical statistician and have amassed extensive expertise in statistical theory, advanced methods, and the skill to tailor or combine methods to solve real-world analytical challenges. I have greater than 13 years of experience conducting clinical research in academia and clinical research organizations (industry). I am establishing an independent line of research in the social, environmental and molecular determinants of childhood obesity. As part of that effort, I plan to use and develop big data analytical methods to advance health equity in obesity research. In addition to my growing interest in the use of AI/ML in the field of obesity, I am interested in understanding the mechanisms that promote change in interventions designed to encourage healthy lifestyle or obesity prevention in minority populations.
Mary Hearst
I am a Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Minnesota. My areas of research are focused on early life integrated interventions to optimize lifelong well-being, community engaged research, and advancing research instruments to be culturally inclusive. My long term goals are to seek health equity for typically marginalized communities and interrupt the structural and social factors that influence health equity.