Courses Taught
HBEHED668: Health Communications for Public Health
HBEHED671: Motivational Interviewing in Public Health
Education
Ph.D., Health Psychology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ferkauf Graduate School, 1985
B.A., Psychology and Philosophy, Yeshiva College, 1980
Research Interest & Projects
Research interests include: the design and evaluation of health promotion programs for special populations, particularly cardiovascular and cancer prevention interventions for African Americans; understanding the relationship between ethnicity and health behaviors; school-based health promotion programs; substance use prevention and harm reduction and motivational interviewing for chronic disease prevention. Studies include: Health Body Healthy Spirit, an NHLBI funded intervention to increase physical activity, fruits, and vegetables among African Americans recruited through Black churches using motivational interviewing; GO GIRLS, an NHLBI funded study to develop an obesity prevention program for overweight African American females; Body and Soul, an NIH/ACS collaboration to disseminate proven cancer control interventions using lay health advisors; and a FOGARTY/NIH study to develop smoking prevention programs for South African Youth.
Selected Publications
Resnicow, K., Page, S.C. (2008). Embracing Chaos and Complexity: A quantum change for public health American Journal of Public Health, 3, 273-83.
Hawkins, R.P., Kreuter, M., Resnicow, K., Fishbein, M., Dijkstra, A." (2008). Understanding Tailoring in Communicating About Health Health Education Research, 23(3), 454-66.
Resnicow, K., Reddy, S.P., James, S. et al. (2008). Comparison of two school-based smoking prevention programs among South African high school students: Results of a randomized trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 36(3), 231-43.
Reddy, S., Resnicow, K., James, S., Kambaran, N., Omardien, R., Mbewu, A. (2008). Underweight, overweight and obesity among South African adolescents: results of the 2002 National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey Public Health Nutrition, 12, 1-5.
van Keulen, H.M., Mesters, I., Brug, J., Ausems, M., Campbell, M., Resnicow, et al. (2008). Vitalum study design: RCT evaluating the efficacy of tailored print communication and telephone motivational interviewing on multiple health behaviors BMC Public Health, 8(1), 216.
Resnicow, K., Davis, R.E., Zhang, G., Konkel, J., Strecher, V.J., Sharikh, A.R., Tolsma, D., Calvi, J., Anderson, J.P., Wiese, C." (March, 2008). Tailoring a fruit and vegetable intervention on motivational constructs; results of a randomized study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2, 159-69.
Nollen, N.L., Ahluwalia, J.S., Mayo, M.S., Richter, K., Choi, W., Okuyemi, K., Resnicow, K." (2007). Quit for Life: A randomized trial of targeted educational materials for smoking cessation among African Americans using transdremal nicotine. Health Education and Behavior
Schwartz, R.P.and Resnicow, R." (2007). Motivational Interviewing to address Childhood Obesity. In Dennis Styne (Ed.) Obesity Prevention in Childhood. Elsevier Press, NJ.
King, A.C., Toobert, D., Riebe, D., Garber, C., Resnicow, K." (September, 2006). Perceived environments as physical activity correlates and moderators of intervention in five studies American Journal of Health Promotion, 1, 24-35.
Rollnick, S., Butler, C.C., McCambridge, J., Kinnersley, P., Elwyn, G., Resnicow, K." (2005). Consultations about changing behaviour. BMJ, 7522, 961-963.
Professional Affiliations
American Psychological Association
Society of Behavioral Medicine (Fellow)
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