Research Projects & Grants

Federal

• Scholarship Training Award for Community Resilience (STACR) Project: A Public Health Scholarship Program, Role: Co-Investigator, Bureau of Health Professions/Health Resources and Services Administration/DHHS, (09/2022 - 09/2025) Status: Awarded
• Community-based participatory research to develop environmental health emergency resilience, Role: Investigator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS, (03/2013 - 03/2014) Status: Completed
• LLU School of Public Health Traineeship, Role: PD/PI, Health Resources and Services Administration/DHHS, (07/2012 - 06/2015) Status: Closed

Internal

• The role of acculturation in breastfeeding intention and duration among Hispanic women, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention, (08/2017 - 08/2018) Status: Completed
• Leadership at the point of contact: exploring empowering leadership with frontline employees, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (06/2015 - 06/2016) Status: Completed
• Association of covered California with hypertensive risk factors in Hispanics, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (03/2015) Status: Completed
• Why urban Malawian women delay antenatal care: a qualitative study, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (07/2014 - 07/2015) Status: Completed
• Using the theory of planned behavior to predict antiretroviral medication of HIV positive women, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (09/2013 - 09/2014) Status: Completed
• Healthcare providers compliance with WHO HIV-related infant feeding guidelines in Busoga Uganda, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (07/2013 - 07/2014) Status: Completed
• Salient beliefs about the use of infant restraints in Saudi Arabia, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (05/2013 - 05/2014) Status: Completed
• Successful aging and creativity: A quasi experimental investigation on functional status in older adults, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (05/2013 - 05/2014) Status: Completed
• Improving health for all program evaluation, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (03/2013) Status: Completed
• Effects of acculturation on HIV/AIDS sexual risk behaviors among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (08/2011 - 08/2012) Status: Completed
• Effects of photovoice on youth perception of healthy food access in the built environment, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (05/2011 - 05/2012) Status: Completed
• Building capacity for community disaster resilience: The role of public environmental health departments in meeting the challenge, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (05/2011) Status: Completed
• Self-reported exercise and risk of osteoporosis in prostate cancer patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (03/2011 - 03/2012) Status: Completed
• Breastfeeding attitudes and intentions among middle eastern women, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (01/2011) Status: Completed
• An occupational-based randomized control study encouraging sun protective behaviors in teachers, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (12/2010) Status: Completed
• Revising the theory of planned behavior to predict exercise behaviors among children, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Health Promotion and Education, (11/2010 - 11/2011) Status: Completed
• Abortion history and subsequent labor time, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (12/2009) Status: Completed
• The relationship between psychological factors and support group participation in prostate cancer patients, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (12/2009) Status: Completed
• Psychosocial factors associated with nicotine dependence among college students: Are there differences between social and regular smokers?", Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (10/2009 - 10/2010) Status: Completed
• The role of unrealistic optimism in explaining preventive behaviors in high versus low endemic malaria settings in Belize, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (08/2009) Status: Completed
• Will a gratitude intervention promote compliance with health behaviors among overweight and obese Hispanics concern with Type 2 diabetes in America?, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (03/2009 - 03/2010) Status: Completed
• Predictors of intention and performance of physical activity in pregnant Hispanic women, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (03/2009 - 03/2010) Status: Completed
• The effect of an HIV/AIDS educational intervention on the sexual perceptions and practices of adolescents in Trinidad, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (02/2009 - 02/2010) Status: Completed
• Spirituality, religiosity, and weight management in Black women, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (01/2009 - 01/2010) Status: Completed
• An internal survey of LLUSN faculty members: practices and perceptions about teaching tobacco-dependence curricula, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Nursing, (11/2008) Status: Completed
• Body weight perceptions and weight control behavior among adult Bermudians, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (10/2008 - 10/2009) Status: Completed
• Religious involvement and observance of Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle practices among Blacks in Ontario, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (01/2008) Status: Completed
• Simultaneous technique of exercise and psychotherapy (STEP) as an adjunct to multidisciplinary treatment in acute impatient psychiatric hospitalized older adults with depressive symptoms, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (10/2007 - 10/2008) Status: Completed
• Psychosocial support, newborn re-admissions, and postpartum follow up, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (08/2007) Status: Completed
• Knowledge, perception, beliefs and behaviors related to the prevention of HTN among black SDAs living in London, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (07/2007 - 07/2008) Status: Completed
• Partner communication and factors influencing the decision to obtain an HIV test among Chinese/Chinese American Community College students in Northern California, Role: Investigator, LLU School of Public Health, (06/2007 - 06/2008) Status: Completed
• "U got 2 move it" pilot study: impact of an after-school interactive video entertainment program for underserved children, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (12/2006 - 11/2007) Status: Completed
• A qualitative study of the impact of perceived control within the semifixed environment on the rehabilitation process, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (11/2006 - 11/2007) Status: Completed
• The effects of an adolescent asthma education intervention on knowledge, intentions, behavior, self-efficacy, and self-consciousness, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (07/2006 - 07/2007) Status: Completed
• Predictability of coronary heart disease event rates by common carotid artery intima-media thickness alone compared to combined three-site sampling in the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (06/2006) Status: Completed
• Self-reported nurse stress, coping processes, and risk of type 2 diabetes, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (05/2006) Status: Completed
• Reliability of serial carotid IMT scanning on individual subjects, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (05/2006 - 05/2007) Status: Completed
• Attributions about postpartum smoking relapse among women who abstain from smoking during the prenatal period, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (03/2005 - 03/2006) Status: Completed
• The relationship of psychological stress to C-reactive protein levels in overweight and obese men, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (10/2004 - 10/2005) Status: Completed
• Stages of change outcomes following a diabetes education/behavior management program, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (08/2004 - 08/2005) Status: Completed
• The role of health promotion in physical therapy, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (12/2002) Status: Completed
• Unrealistic optimism about personal risk and women's perceived susceptibility to breast cancer before and after an educational computer intervention: a multicultural study, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Psychology, (01/2002) Status: Completed
• The effect of sexist discrimination on women's health, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Psychology, (04/1999 - 04/2000) Status: Completed
• Risk factors associated with very low birth weight infants of teenage mothers in San Bernardino County, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (07/1998) Status: Completed
• Neighborhood and social context factors that predict teen pregnancy risk related profile, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (01/1998) Status: Completed
• Serum ferritin, cardiorespriratory fitness and mortality from cardiovascular disease, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (11/1997) Status: Completed
• Cost effectiveness of the diabetic education program at the Beaver Medical Group in Redlands, California, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (10/1997) Status: Completed
• A cross-sectional study examining lifestyle and rheumatoid arthritis, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (06/1997 - 06/1998) Status: Completed
• Factors predicting recidivism among adult offenders in the San Bernardino correctional system, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, (03/1997 - 03/1998) Status: Completed
• Menopause, fitness, and cardiovascular disease risk factors, Role: Investigator, LLU Center for Health Research, (05/1996) Status: Completed
• Eating behavior of Korean American adolescents in Los Angeles, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (04/1996 - 04/1997) Status: Completed
• School study of snacking behavior of Korean American adolescents, Role: PI, LLU School of Public Health, (04/1996) Status: Completed
• The effects of a classrooom-based asthma education curriculum on asthma knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and quality of life among adolescents, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, Status: Completed
• Assessment of a body composition focused obesity treatment, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, Status: Completed
• Determinants of help-seeking among first-year community college students, Role: PI, LLU Center for Health Research, Status: Completed

Non-Profit Organization

• The provision of emergency contraception (EC) among California Community College (CCC) student health centers, Role: PI, Pacific Coast College Health Association, (10/2009 - 10/2010) Status: Completed
• Health beliefs and intentions of mammography screening among low-income Hispanic women in San Bernardino, Role: Investigator, Hulda Crooks Research Award, (06/2008 - 06/2009) Status: Completed
• Predicting WIC participants' intention to wean their infants from the bottle, Role: PI, California Dietetic Association, (12/2004) Status: Completed
• Lifestyle survey of General Conference 2000 Attendees, Role: Investigator, General Conference, (06/2000) Status: Completed
• The USFSA study: Understanding the scientific factors for skaters' accomplishments (USFSA), Role: Investigator, United States Olympic Committee, (10/1998) Status: Completed