Lori Kowaleski-jones
Professor
Family and Consumer Studies
Huntsman Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Lori Kowaleski-Jones, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah and an investigator of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.Kowaleski-Jones studies cancer-related associations between the social environment and energy balance, physical activity, and obesity.She earned a PhD from Ohio State University, Columbus, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Illinois.
Research Interest
Consumer Studies
Publications
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Zick CD, Smith KR, Kowaleski-Jones L, Uno C, Merrill BJ (2013). Harvesting more than vegetables: the potential weight control benefits of community gardening. Am J Public Health, 103(6), 1110-5.
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Kowaleski-Jones L, Wen M (2013). Community and child energy balance: differential associations between neighborhood environment and overweight risk by gender. Int J Environ Health Res, 23(5), 434-45.
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Fan JX, Brown BB, Hanson H, Kowaleski-Jones L, Smith KR, Zick CD (2013). Moderate to vigorous physical activity and weight outcomes: does every minute count? Am J Health Promot, 28(1), 41-9.
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Zick CD, Hanson H, Fan JX, Smith KR, Kowaleski-Jones L, Brown BB, Yamada I (2013). Re-visiting the relationship between neighbourhood environment and BMI: an instrumental variables approach to correcting for residential selection bias. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act, 10, 27.
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Brown BB, Smith KR, Hanson H, Fan JX, Kowaleski-Jones L, Zick CD (2013). Neighborhood design for walking and biking: physical activity and body mass index. Am J Prev Med, 44(3), 231-8.
