Rie Suzuki
Associate Professor
Public Health & Health Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Suzuki received her PhD in Health Education, specializing in Health Behavior and psychometric statistics, from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a behavioral scientist and an associate professor at the University of Michigan-Flint. Prior to this position, she was the post-doctoral research fellow in the Rehabilitation Research & Training Center at the Oregon Health & Science University.
Research Interest
She gives special attention to needs assessments, the development of theory-based health promotion programs, and program evaluation in low-income communities for women with disabilities and aging adults. By using medical records and self-administered surveys, she currently focuses on two major areas in her research: the relationships between social activities and physiological factors in aging adults, as well as health disparities in the Medicaid or/and aged population with and without disabilities.
Publications
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Small, E., Suzuki, R., & Maleku, A. (2014). The Impact of Family and Parental Education on Adolescents' Substance Use: A Study of U.S. High School Seniors. Social Work in Public Health, 29(6), 594-605.
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Suzuki, R., Wallace, P. M., & Small, E. (2015). Race, Health-related Quality of Life and Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates in the National Health Interview Survey. American Journal of Health Behavior, 39(1), 132-139.
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Suzuki, R., Small, E., & Makled, M. (accepted 2016). Is complementary and alternative medicine for chronic pain associated with cancer screening rates for women with functional disabilities? Complementary Therapies in Medicine
