HEALTH Dissemination and Implementation
HEALTH Dissemination and Implementation will extend the findings from HEALTH with a controlled trial to evaluate the dissemination and implementation of HEALTH across three levels – to a mother directly; through a parent educators who comes into the home; and through Parents as Teachers.
Project Staff
Principal Investigator: Rachel Tabak, PhD
Co- investigators: Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD; Kenneth Schechtman, PhD
Research Team: Adriana Aramburu, MPH; Ronni Byrth, BS; Abygail Martinez, BS; Cindy Schwarz, MPH, MS, RD; Vianca Cuevas Soulette, MPH; Karen Steger-May, MA; Jinli Wang, MS
External Collaborators: Allison Kemner, MPH; Kerry Caverly, Donna Hunt-O’Brien
Graduate Research Assistants: Delali Darku, Laura Marple, Laura McNulty, Alejandra Munoz-Rivera, Angeles Ochoa-Raya, Maryse Rios-Hernandez, Laurel Schmidt
Project Partners
Parents as Teachers; Delaware Early Childhood Center; Erie Family Center; Easterseals Joliet Region; Caring for Kids; The Center in Arlington Heights; Farrell Family Center; Fulton County Family Partnerships, Casa De Los Ninos, Richstone Family Center, Plainfield Connections/Prevent Child Abuse State Agency; Child and Family Resources; Family Cornerstone Inc.; Topeka Public Schools Parents as Teachers; Cascade City County Health Department/Maternal Child Health and Public Health Home Visitation; Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority; Howe Community Resource Center; Winfield Unified School District; Family Iowa; Davidson County School Readiness; Berrien Regional Education Service Agency; Family Resource Center St. Croix Valley, Inc; Maternal and Child Health Consortium/Chester County Dept. of Human Services; Polytech School District Parents As Teachers;
Project Dates: 2018-2024
Funding Source
National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Publications
Farabi SS, Schwarz C, Persaud A, Gilbert A, Haire-Joshu D, Tabak RG. Sleep, Stress, and Cardiometabolic Health in Women of Childbearing Age with Overweight and Obesity. Womens Health Rep (New Rochelle). 2024 Feb 21;5(1):143-151
Tabak RG, Schwarz CD, Kemner A, Johnston S, Aramburu A, Haire-Joshu D. Social Determinants of Health Discussed with Mothers During Personal Visits Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Equity. 2021 Sep 3;5(1):536-544.
Tabak, R., Schwarz, C.D., Kemner, A., Schechtman, K.B., Steger-May, K., Byrth, V., Haire-Joshu, D. Disseminating and implementing a lifestyle-based healthy weight program for mothers in a national organization; a study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 2019. Implementation Science. Jun 25;14(1):68
Presentations
Tabak, R., Schwarz, C.D., Aramburu, A., Haire-Joshu, D. Social determinants of health during personal visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Institute of Public Health at Washington University’s Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, United States. (October, 2020)
Mazzuca, S., Tabak, R. Partnering to support family health goals. Parents as Teachers International Virtual Conference (October, 2020)
Cuevas Soulette, V., Aramburu, A., Schwarz, C.D., Haire-Joshu, D., Tabak, R. Evaluating the integration of a new health training curriculum within a national home visiting program. Institute of Public Health at Washington University’s Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, United States. (October, 2019)
Tabak, R., Schwarz, C.D., Haire-Joshu, D. Research partnership promoting healthy eating and activity. Parents as Teachers International Conference, St. Louis, MO, United States. (October, 2019)
McNulty, L., Tabak, R., Schwarz, C.D., Byrth, V., Haire-Joshu, D. From paper to practice: Translating multi-stakeholder protocols into action through shared language, artifacts, and training. Research Without Walls at Washington University Brown School’s Annual Event, St. Louis, MO, United States. (April, 2019)
Haire-Joshu, D., Schwarz, C.D. A partnership to prevent obesity amount parents and children. Parents as Teacher Board Meeting (October, 2018)
Schwarz, C.D. Recent obesity prevention research and announcement of a new NIH grant. Parents as Teachers International Conference, Phoenix, AZ United States. (October, 2018)
Media
Tabak receives $3.3 million NIH grant to study obesity in young mothers
By Neil Schoenherr on August 13, 2018