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Dr. Rebecca Lee conducts translational research emphasizing innovative, fun, participatory interventions and contextual factors (e.g., policy, built environment, group dynamics) to increase physical activity and improve dietary habits in Hispanic and Latino children and adults in the US and Mexico. Her research is anchored in the Ecologic Model of Physical Activity and incorporates community based participatory research strategies. She employs a transdisciplinary approach to combine theory and techniques drawn from behavioral medicine, community psychology, geography, nursing research, policy science, social ecology, social justice and social marketing to enhance sustainability of successful, multilevel interventions.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS: ONGOING
Back to ECE Safely with SAGE: Reducing COVID-19 Transmission in Hispanic and Low-income Preschoolers
NIH OT2HD108101-01
2021-2023
This will test young children (age 3-5 years) and their parents using a COVID-19 saliva test. Testing will be done as part of a coordinated strategy to get kids back to in-person learning safely. The strategy also includes open-air education leveraging school gardens to increase physically active time and improve healthy eating. Read more...
NIH OT2HD108101-01
2021-2023
This will test young children (age 3-5 years) and their parents using a COVID-19 saliva test. Testing will be done as part of a coordinated strategy to get kids back to in-person learning safely. The strategy also includes open-air education leveraging school gardens to increase physically active time and improve healthy eating. Read more...
Food Environment Measurement with People with Mobility Impairments (FEAST)
R21 HD095380-01
2018-2023
Role: Principal Investigator
This study is funded by NIH/NICHD to define and describe the nutrition ecology of people with mobility impairments. Working together with an national team of experts and community advisory board members, this study team will develop a measure of the food environment such as stores, restaurants and food delivery services from the perspective of people with mobility impairments. Then, this team will test the measure for usefulness and feasibility with a multiethnic sample of adults with mobility impairments to help inform future research and policy
R21 HD095380-01
2018-2023
Role: Principal Investigator
This study is funded by NIH/NICHD to define and describe the nutrition ecology of people with mobility impairments. Working together with an national team of experts and community advisory board members, this study team will develop a measure of the food environment such as stores, restaurants and food delivery services from the perspective of people with mobility impairments. Then, this team will test the measure for usefulness and feasibility with a multiethnic sample of adults with mobility impairments to help inform future research and policy
Partnering for PA in Early Childhood: Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE)
U01 MD010667-01
4/2016-11/2020
Role: Principal Investigator
SAGE is a free, garden-based physical activity and nutrition program that works with early care and education centers to teach healthy habits while meeting national guidelines for child health. SAGE’s child safety curriculum educates young children on fire, pedestrian, water, household, neighborhood and playground safety.
U01 MD010667-01
4/2016-11/2020
Role: Principal Investigator
SAGE is a free, garden-based physical activity and nutrition program that works with early care and education centers to teach healthy habits while meeting national guidelines for child health. SAGE’s child safety curriculum educates young children on fire, pedestrian, water, household, neighborhood and playground safety.
research grants and contracts: completed
Investigating mHealth Capacity in Mexico to Aid Policy Implementation in the Control Obesity and T2D
Fulbright Scholar Grant
2019-2021
This project will (1) explore the capacity for mHealth implementation in Mexico to reduce obesity and T2D, (2) investigate the nature and scope of mHealth technologies that follow national health policies about obesity and T2D, (3) document how national strategies may have changed under the new administration and the impact on implementation of mHealth strategies, and (4) create a knowledge translation plan to disseminate the findings to key contacts to aid in health policy implementation via mHealth strategies.
SleepWell24: An Innovative Smartphone Application to Improve PAP Adherence
R21NR016046
8/2016-7/2018
Role: DSMB Member (Buman M/Petrov M (MPI))
This exploratory study will test the feasibility and initial efficacy of a mobile health smartphone intervention to increase adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy in newly diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients treated at the Mayo Clinic Arizona Center for Sleep Medicine and associated outpatient clinics.
Best Evaluation Tools & Techniques for Effective Recommendations for Policies (BETTER Policies)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9/2011-8/2016
Role: Co-Investigator, Chair of Sustainability Workgroup (D.P. O’Connor (PI))
Development of a Virtual Reality Weight Management Intervention for Women with Mobility Impairments
H133G120192 (NIDRR); Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine (via National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
9/2012-8/2016
Role: Consultant (of sub-award from Baylor College of Medicine, Nosek, PI)
A Faith-based partnership to address obesity in African American families
1R13HD080934-01 (NIH)
9/2014-5/2017
Role: Consultant (L. McNeil (PI))
Physical Activity for Healthy Weight in Breast Cancer Survivors
ASU/Mayo Clinic
9/2014-12/2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Science and Community: Partnering to prevent early childhood obesity
R21HD073685-01; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
7/2012-6/2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Pausa Laboral
CIHR GIR 127075; Sponsor: Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), CIHR Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada – Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (PHAC-CCDP)
2013-2015
Role: Co-Investigator/Consultant (L Lévesque, PI)
Social Contextual and Environmental Predictors of PA in Sedentary Minority Adults
R01NR011453; Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)
7/2009-12/2014
Role: Principal Investigator (of sub-award from MDA, McNeill, PI)
Interactive Garden Nutrition Education in Preschools
University of Houston, Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR)
9/2012 – 8/2013
Role: Principal Investigator
Predicting PA Adoption among Minority Women Using SEM and Participatory Research
1F31NR013349-01; Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)
6/2012-8/2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor (S K Mama, PI)
Multinational Collaboration to Increase PA in Hispanics
1R13CA162816; Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
11/2011-10/2013
Role: Principal Investigator
The Influence of Neighborhood Environment on Risk Factors for CVD in African American Women
Sponsor: Texas American College of Sports Medicine
6/2012-5/2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor (H J Leach, PI)
Connecting Wii to SL Technology to Promote Physical Activity
Sponsor: University of Houston Small Grants Program
1/2011-8/2011
Role: Principal Investigator
Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity of Hispanic-American Preschoolers
R21HD060925; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
4/2010-3/2012
Role: Principal Investigator (of sub-award from Baylor College of Medicine, Cerin, PI)
Science and Community: Ending Obesity Improving Health
1U13HD063190; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
01/2010-12/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Maintaining Physical Activity in Ethnic Minority Women
1R01CA109403; Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
5/2005-4/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Interactive Gaming Technology to Prevent and Treat Obesity
College of Education, UH
6/2009-5/2010
Role: Principal Investigator
Mechanisms of Physical Activity Behavior Change
1R01DK070553
7/2004 – 6/2009
Role: Principal Investigator (of UH subaward from Virginia Tech University) (P A Estabrooks, PI)
Second Life and the Public Good, Network Culture Project
USC Annenberg School for Communication; Texas Obesity Research Center in Second Life: The International Health Challenge
2008
Role: Principal Investigator
Environmental Correlates of Leisure and Transportation Walking of Residents of Public Housing
CPF3 52468; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research
1/2005-6/2008
Role: Principal Investigator
An Analysis of Environmental Risk Factors for Obesity
1RO1 DK064284; National Institutes of Health (NIDDK)
6/2003-5/2007
Role: Co-Investigator (W C Poston, PI)
Social Cohesion Strategy to Promote Sustainable Weight Loss in Overweight Ethnic Minority Women
Grant to Enhance & Advance Research, UH
9/2005-8/2006
Role: Principal Investigator
A Social Cohesion Strategy to Increase Walking in Ethnic Minority Women
College of Education, UH
1/2005-12/2005
Role: Principal Investigator
Monitoring University Students Tackling Diabetes and Obesity (MUST-DO)
American Heart Association Heartland
7/2003-6/2005
Role: Co-Investigator (T Huang, PI)
Environmental Barriers to Maintaining a Healthy Weight in Urban Housing Developments
Sandra A. Daugherty Foundation
7/2002-6/2004
Role: Principal Investigator
Defining Neighborhood Structures the Contribute to Overweight and Obesity
American Heart Association Heartland
7/2002-6/2004
Role: Principal Investigator
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Training Program
5T32HLO7034
9/1998-6/2001
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow (S P Fortmann, PI)
Fulbright Scholar Grant
2019-2021
This project will (1) explore the capacity for mHealth implementation in Mexico to reduce obesity and T2D, (2) investigate the nature and scope of mHealth technologies that follow national health policies about obesity and T2D, (3) document how national strategies may have changed under the new administration and the impact on implementation of mHealth strategies, and (4) create a knowledge translation plan to disseminate the findings to key contacts to aid in health policy implementation via mHealth strategies.
SleepWell24: An Innovative Smartphone Application to Improve PAP Adherence
R21NR016046
8/2016-7/2018
Role: DSMB Member (Buman M/Petrov M (MPI))
This exploratory study will test the feasibility and initial efficacy of a mobile health smartphone intervention to increase adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy in newly diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients treated at the Mayo Clinic Arizona Center for Sleep Medicine and associated outpatient clinics.
Best Evaluation Tools & Techniques for Effective Recommendations for Policies (BETTER Policies)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9/2011-8/2016
Role: Co-Investigator, Chair of Sustainability Workgroup (D.P. O’Connor (PI))
Development of a Virtual Reality Weight Management Intervention for Women with Mobility Impairments
H133G120192 (NIDRR); Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine (via National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
9/2012-8/2016
Role: Consultant (of sub-award from Baylor College of Medicine, Nosek, PI)
A Faith-based partnership to address obesity in African American families
1R13HD080934-01 (NIH)
9/2014-5/2017
Role: Consultant (L. McNeil (PI))
Physical Activity for Healthy Weight in Breast Cancer Survivors
ASU/Mayo Clinic
9/2014-12/2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Science and Community: Partnering to prevent early childhood obesity
R21HD073685-01; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
7/2012-6/2015
Role: Principal Investigator
Pausa Laboral
CIHR GIR 127075; Sponsor: Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), CIHR Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada – Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (PHAC-CCDP)
2013-2015
Role: Co-Investigator/Consultant (L Lévesque, PI)
Social Contextual and Environmental Predictors of PA in Sedentary Minority Adults
R01NR011453; Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)
7/2009-12/2014
Role: Principal Investigator (of sub-award from MDA, McNeill, PI)
Interactive Garden Nutrition Education in Preschools
University of Houston, Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR)
9/2012 – 8/2013
Role: Principal Investigator
Predicting PA Adoption among Minority Women Using SEM and Participatory Research
1F31NR013349-01; Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)
6/2012-8/2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor (S K Mama, PI)
Multinational Collaboration to Increase PA in Hispanics
1R13CA162816; Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
11/2011-10/2013
Role: Principal Investigator
The Influence of Neighborhood Environment on Risk Factors for CVD in African American Women
Sponsor: Texas American College of Sports Medicine
6/2012-5/2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor (H J Leach, PI)
Connecting Wii to SL Technology to Promote Physical Activity
Sponsor: University of Houston Small Grants Program
1/2011-8/2011
Role: Principal Investigator
Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity of Hispanic-American Preschoolers
R21HD060925; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
4/2010-3/2012
Role: Principal Investigator (of sub-award from Baylor College of Medicine, Cerin, PI)
Science and Community: Ending Obesity Improving Health
1U13HD063190; Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
01/2010-12/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Maintaining Physical Activity in Ethnic Minority Women
1R01CA109403; Sponsor: National Cancer Institute
5/2005-4/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Interactive Gaming Technology to Prevent and Treat Obesity
College of Education, UH
6/2009-5/2010
Role: Principal Investigator
Mechanisms of Physical Activity Behavior Change
1R01DK070553
7/2004 – 6/2009
Role: Principal Investigator (of UH subaward from Virginia Tech University) (P A Estabrooks, PI)
Second Life and the Public Good, Network Culture Project
USC Annenberg School for Communication; Texas Obesity Research Center in Second Life: The International Health Challenge
2008
Role: Principal Investigator
Environmental Correlates of Leisure and Transportation Walking of Residents of Public Housing
CPF3 52468; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living Research
1/2005-6/2008
Role: Principal Investigator
An Analysis of Environmental Risk Factors for Obesity
1RO1 DK064284; National Institutes of Health (NIDDK)
6/2003-5/2007
Role: Co-Investigator (W C Poston, PI)
Social Cohesion Strategy to Promote Sustainable Weight Loss in Overweight Ethnic Minority Women
Grant to Enhance & Advance Research, UH
9/2005-8/2006
Role: Principal Investigator
A Social Cohesion Strategy to Increase Walking in Ethnic Minority Women
College of Education, UH
1/2005-12/2005
Role: Principal Investigator
Monitoring University Students Tackling Diabetes and Obesity (MUST-DO)
American Heart Association Heartland
7/2003-6/2005
Role: Co-Investigator (T Huang, PI)
Environmental Barriers to Maintaining a Healthy Weight in Urban Housing Developments
Sandra A. Daugherty Foundation
7/2002-6/2004
Role: Principal Investigator
Defining Neighborhood Structures the Contribute to Overweight and Obesity
American Heart Association Heartland
7/2002-6/2004
Role: Principal Investigator
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Training Program
5T32HLO7034
9/1998-6/2001
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow (S P Fortmann, PI)
teaching related
Improving Learning about the Obesogenic Environment via Mobile Course Content
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2010-7/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $4,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Use of a Technology-based Intervention for Pain-fear Reduction in Older Adults with Arthritis
PI: J. Hook
Edson College PhD Program Seed Grant
2021-
Role: Mentor
Leveraging Implementation Science to Promote Behavior Change and Reduce Cancer Health Disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native Older Adults
PI: M. Pedersen
NIH/NCI 1F99/4K00CA253791-01
2020-2024
Role: Co-Mentor
Growing Older Staying Strong: A social ecological and intergenerational approach to promote walking for exercise among American Indian and Alaska Native older adults
PI: M. Pedersen
NIH/NIA 1F31AG064828-01A1
2020-2020
Role: Consultant and Mentor
Physical Activity in Underserved Populations: Using Epidemiologic Assessments to Inform Sustainable Intervention
PI: K.R. Ylitalo
NIH/NIA 1K01AG058754-01A1
2019-2023
Role: Co-Mentor
Growing older staying strong. Promoting physical activity among rural AIAN older adults
PI: Diane King
M. Pedersen
NIGMS U54GM115371
2019-2020
Role: Consultant and Mentor
Examining Socioecological Factors that Influence the Development of Cardiovascular Fitness and Gross Motor Skills in Preschool-aged Children
PI: J. Szeszulski
ASU Graduate College (Graduate Completion Fellowship)
2019
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Linking Active Transportation Use and Neighborhood Walkability to Cardiometabolic Outcomes
PI: E.L. Lorenzo
NIH/NINR 1F31NR017560-01
2018-2019
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Predicting PA Adoption among Minority Women Using SEM and Participatory Research
PI: S.K. Mama
NIH/NINR 1F31NR013349-01
2012-2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
The Influence of Neighborhood Environment on Risk Factors for CVD in African American Women
PI: HJ Leach
Texas American College of Sports Medicine
2012-2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Improving Learning about the Obesogenic Environment via Mobile Course Content
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2010-7/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $4,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Using Virtual and Real, Immersive Technologies to Enhance Learning in Obesity Studies
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2009-7/2010
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $25,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Technology and Retention Research, The Office of Educational Technology & University Outreach, UH
Department of Health and Human Performance in Second Life
2008
Role: Co-Investigator (C S Layne, PI)
Direct Costs: $30,000; Indirect Costs: $0
School of Medicine Clinical Research Curriculum Program
5K30HL04541-02
1/2002-12/2003
Role: Fellow (J S Ahluwalia, PI)
Direct Costs: Information not available; Indirect Costs: Information not available
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2010-7/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $4,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Use of a Technology-based Intervention for Pain-fear Reduction in Older Adults with Arthritis
PI: J. Hook
Edson College PhD Program Seed Grant
2021-
Role: Mentor
Leveraging Implementation Science to Promote Behavior Change and Reduce Cancer Health Disparities among American Indian and Alaska Native Older Adults
PI: M. Pedersen
NIH/NCI 1F99/4K00CA253791-01
2020-2024
Role: Co-Mentor
Growing Older Staying Strong: A social ecological and intergenerational approach to promote walking for exercise among American Indian and Alaska Native older adults
PI: M. Pedersen
NIH/NIA 1F31AG064828-01A1
2020-2020
Role: Consultant and Mentor
Physical Activity in Underserved Populations: Using Epidemiologic Assessments to Inform Sustainable Intervention
PI: K.R. Ylitalo
NIH/NIA 1K01AG058754-01A1
2019-2023
Role: Co-Mentor
Growing older staying strong. Promoting physical activity among rural AIAN older adults
PI: Diane King
M. Pedersen
NIGMS U54GM115371
2019-2020
Role: Consultant and Mentor
Examining Socioecological Factors that Influence the Development of Cardiovascular Fitness and Gross Motor Skills in Preschool-aged Children
PI: J. Szeszulski
ASU Graduate College (Graduate Completion Fellowship)
2019
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Linking Active Transportation Use and Neighborhood Walkability to Cardiometabolic Outcomes
PI: E.L. Lorenzo
NIH/NINR 1F31NR017560-01
2018-2019
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Predicting PA Adoption among Minority Women Using SEM and Participatory Research
PI: S.K. Mama
NIH/NINR 1F31NR013349-01
2012-2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
The Influence of Neighborhood Environment on Risk Factors for CVD in African American Women
PI: HJ Leach
Texas American College of Sports Medicine
2012-2013
Role: Faculty Sponsor and Mentor
Improving Learning about the Obesogenic Environment via Mobile Course Content
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2010-7/2012
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $4,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Using Virtual and Real, Immersive Technologies to Enhance Learning in Obesity Studies
Faculty Development Initiative Program, UH
8/2009-7/2010
Role: Principal Investigator
Direct Costs: $25,000; Indirect Costs: $0
Technology and Retention Research, The Office of Educational Technology & University Outreach, UH
Department of Health and Human Performance in Second Life
2008
Role: Co-Investigator (C S Layne, PI)
Direct Costs: $30,000; Indirect Costs: $0
School of Medicine Clinical Research Curriculum Program
5K30HL04541-02
1/2002-12/2003
Role: Fellow (J S Ahluwalia, PI)
Direct Costs: Information not available; Indirect Costs: Information not available