Physical Activity and Health

Proposed Research Teams/Collaborations:

• Exercise is Medicine Research Team:

  • Greg Heath, DHSc, MPH;
  • James W. Haynes, MD;
  • Nicholas Boer, PhD;
  • Manuel Santiago, PhD;
  • Diedri White, DrPH;
  • Rehan Qayyum, MD, MS;
  • Chris Cunningham, PhD;
  • Chris Smith, PhD, RN;
  • Cathie Smith, PhD, RPT
  • Karissa Peyer, PhD
  • Alison Bailey, MD

• Community-based Physical Activity Research Team:

  • Shewanee Howard-Baptiste, PhD;
  • Elgin B. Andrews, PhD;
  • Greg Heath, DHSc;
  • Ignatius Fomunung, PhD;
  • John Bilderback, MS;
  • Jamie Harvey, EdD
  • Kate Kemplin, DNP, RN, CCEMTP

• Exercise is Medicine Outdoors Research Team:

  • Andrew Bailey, PhD;
  • Hallie Blunck, MD, MPH

Recent Research Projects

Heath GW, Kolade VO, Haynes JW. Exercise is Medicine™: A pilot study linking primary care with community physical activity support. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2015; 2:492-497.

Heath GW, Bilderback J, McInnis D, Wilson WS. Grow Healthy Together Chattanooga: Effects of Policy/Environmental Interventions on Physical Activity Among Urban Children. MSSE 2015; 47 (5S):832-833.