Editorial Board Member - JNH
DAVID R. BLACK
Professor EmeritusDepartment of Health and Kinesiology
Purdue University
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. David R. (Randy) Black, PhD, MPH, HSPP, CHES, CPPE, FASHA, FSBM, FAAHB, FAAHE is a distinguished scholar. He is Associate Director of the Purdue Homeland Security Institute. He is fellow of five different health organizations and has received ~48 federal, national, state, organization, and university awards or recognitions for his contributions to public health and most recently in Homeland Security for service, scholarship, and grantsmanship. He has participated in the publication of 20 books and 34 book chapters. He has published ~150 peer-review articles, participated in ~180 and another ~50 invited regional, national, and international presentations, and has regularly submitted and been successful in receiving grant funding. He completed his doctoral degree at Stanford University in Psychology and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program and Laboratory for the Study of Behavioral Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. His primary responsibility as a post-doc was to conduct field studies for the Stanford 3 and 5 City studies for weight management to impact chronic diseases and identify determinants for successful participation in nutrition-physical activity focused “minimal” interventions. His research in the weight management nutrition-physical activity area began almost 4 decades ago. His first faculty appointment was at University of Nebraska Medical Center in the Department of Preventive and Stress Medicine and his subsequent faculty appointment has been at Purdue University where he has been since 1984. He completed his Master of Public Health degree at San Diego State University.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. David R. (Randy) Black primary research focus is on apply behavioral epidemiology and behavioral medicine concepts and principles to a variety of disciples/topics such as homeland security, service delivery programs that follow Occam’s razor, eating disorders, and “healthy” weight management (proper nutrition and age-related physical activity, development of screening tests, and psychometrically valid and reliable tests). Articles on these topics also have been used to propagate and investigate a community-based health service delivery model called the Stepped Approach Model (SAM). SAM focuses on providing community services in multiple health areas (e.g., nutrition, tobacco, alcohol, stress, high blood pressure, and physical inactivity) identified as public health priorities and to mitigate morbidity (chronic disease), mortality, injury, and disability. One of the current foci is on recruitment and program design (social marketing), social problem solving (a test translated into 9 different languages), and application of technology to deliver weight management programs and investigate catastrophic events. Most recent research focus is on social media and identifying determinants of health behavior outcomes or events by using technology (such as Radian6) to investigate social media (e.g., Twitter, blogs, Facebook) and to evaluate health behavior interventions that are media based. Trained peer helper for primary prevention intervention has been a research and scholarly focus for over 3 decades.
Research interests are listed below (keywords):
- Stepped Approach Model (service delivery models)
- Occam’s razor or minimal intervention (the simplest intervention that works) and low cost service providers (trained peer helpers)
- Weight management interventions (“healthy weight”) and eating disorder – over and under nutrition
- Social Problem Solving Inventory for Adolescents published in 9 languages and reviewed in Buros Mental Measurement Yearbook.
- Social media investigation using technology and evaluation of interventions technologically delivered
- Technology to evaluate and catastrophic events and to identify determinants
Other Editorial Board Members - JNH
Alex Kojo Anderson
Department of Foods and Nutrition
University of Georgia
United States
PUNAM OHRI-VACHASPATI
School of Nutrition and Health Promotion
Arizona State University
United States
Angela Chale
Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences
Montclair State University
United States
Edralin A Lucas
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Oklahoma State University
United States
Jurgen Konig
Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of Vienna
Austria
Antonio Sanchez-Pozo
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II
University of Granada
Spain
Mridula Chopra
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
University of Portsmouth
United Kingdom
SIBYLLE KRANZ
Department of Nutrition Science
Purdue University
United States
Carmen Cabrera Viique
Department of Nutrition
University of Granada
Spain
Jamie I. Baum
Department of Food Science
University of Arkansas
United States