Socio-ecological and Behavioral Science for Equity
Effective translation research can efficiently identify ways to improve uptake, adoption, utilization, and maintained engagement with evidence-based prevention and care programs. Engagement and Behavior Change is well-positioned to catalyze this sort of diabetes translation research by leveraging its multidisciplinary expertise, its extensive experience in community- and clinic-based research, its access to ethnic minority physician practice networks, and its access to ethnic minority communities and clinical populations. This Core has extensive breadth and depth of experience and expertise in community-based participatory research (CBPR) with minority disadvantaged communities and clinical populations. Though these are often underrepresented populations in translation research, this core brings experience in facilitating their ethical recruitment, retention, and sustained engagement in health promotion and research activities.
The Core has three primary aims:



Core Leaders

Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH
Co-Leader, Socio-ecological and Behavioral Science for Equity Core, Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine & Associate Dean for Community Engagement, Morehouse School of Medicine

Cam Escoffery, PhD, MPH, CHES
Co-Leader, Socio-ecological and Behavioral Science for Equity Core, Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Professor, Department of Behavioral, Social & Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Core Experts

Rosa Arriaga, PhD
Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs In Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interest:
Mobile Health for chronic care management

Solveig A. Cunningham, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Research Interest:
Adolescent health and nutrition

Mary Beth Weber, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Nutrition & Health Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Research Interest:
Lifestyle interventions and behavior change