Using Insights from Behavioral Economics to Address Physical Activity Disparities
Rebecca Hasson
Thursday, 28 Mar 2019 at 5:30 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Rebecca Hasson is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory. She studies the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in obesity and obesity-related complications among children and adolescents. She is specifically interested in what socioeconomic, behavioral, and biological factors contribute to these health disparities and options for behavioral intervention. Hasson’s multidisciplinary research approach integrates her previous training in such areas as exercise physiology, endocrinology, pediatrics, and social epidemiology.Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Rebecca Hasson was a postdoc at the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California-San Francisco. She has a PhD in kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts.
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- Kinesiology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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