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Eaton TM, Kumanyika S, DiSantis KI, Yadeta K, Grier S. Black Community Conversations About Opposing Ethnically Targeted Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 Oct;9(5):1946-1956. doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01133-1. Epub 2021 Aug 20. PubMed PMID: 34417762; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8378522.
Braddock AS, Phad A, Tabak R, Kumanyika S, Johnston S, Koopman R, Prout E, McQueen A. Assessing Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Children: A Scoping Review of Available Measures for Child Health Disparities Research. Health Equity. 2021;5(1):727-737. doi: 10.1089/heq.2021.0008. eCollection 2021. Review. PubMed PMID: 34909543; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8665809.
Mazzucca S, Arredondo EM, Hoelscher DM, Haire-Joshu D, Tabak RG, Kumanyika SK, Brownson RC. Expanding Implementation Research to Prevent Chronic Diseases in Community Settings. Annu Rev Public Health. 2021 Apr 1;42:135-158. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-090419-102547. Epub 2021 Jan 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 33467924; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9152846.
Brownson RC, Kumanyika SK, Kreuter MW, Haire-Joshu D. Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity. Implement Sci. 2021 Mar 19;16(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01097-0. PubMed PMID: 33740999; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7977499.
Jacob V, Chattopadhyay SK, Reynolds JA, Hopkins DP, Morgan JA, Brown DR, Kochtitzky CS, Cuellar AE, Kumanyika SK. Economics of Interventions to Increase Active Travel to School: A Community Guide Systematic Review. Am J Prev Med. 2021 Jan;60(1):e27-e40. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.08.002. Review. PubMed PMID: 33341185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7770808.
Risica PM, Nelson T, Kumanyika SK, Camacho Orona K, Bove G, Odoms-Young AM, Gans KM. Emotional Eating Predicts Weight Regain Among Black Women in the SisterTalk Intervention. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Jan;29(1):79-85. doi: 10.1002/oby.23045. PubMed PMID: 34494370; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8672458.
Kumanyika S, Dietz WH. Solving Population-wide Obesity - Progress and Future Prospects. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 3;383(23):2197-2200. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2029646. Epub 2020 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 33264824.
Kumanyika S, Afshin A, Arimond M, Lawrence M, McNaughton SA, Nishida C. Approaches to Defining Healthy Diets: A Background Paper for the International Expert Consultation on Sustainable Healthy Diets. Food Nutr Bull. 2020 Dec;41(2_suppl):7S-30S. doi: 10.1177/0379572120973111. PubMed PMID: 33356593.
Cooksey Stowers K, Marfo NYA, Gurganus EA, Gans KM, Kumanyika SK, Schwartz MB. The hunger-obesity paradox: Exploring food banking system characteristics and obesity inequities among food-insecure pantry clients. PLoS One. 2020;15(10):e0239778. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239778. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 33085685; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7577435.
King H, Magnus M, Hedges LV, Cyr C, Young-Hyman D, Kettel Khan L, Scott-Sheldon LAJ, Saul JA, Arteaga S, Cawley J, Economos CD, Haire-Joshu D, Hunter CM, Lee BY, Kumanyika SK, Ritchie LD, Robinson TN, Schwartz MB. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis. Child Obes. 2020 Sep;16(S2):S27-S220. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.0138. PubMed PMID: 32936039; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7482109.
Scott-Sheldon LAJ, Hedges LV, Cyr C, Young-Hyman D, Khan LK, Magnus M, King H, Arteaga S, Cawley J, Economos CD, Haire-Joshu D, Hunter CM, Lee BY, Kumanyika SK, Ritchie LD, Robinson TN, Schwartz MB. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2-5 Years of Age, 2005-2019. Child Obes. 2020 Sep;16(S2):S221-S248. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.0139. PubMed PMID: 32936038; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7482126.
Kumanyika SK. Learning More from What We Already Know About Childhood Obesity Prevention. Child Obes. 2020 Sep;16(S2):S255-S258. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.29007.sk. PubMed PMID: 32936037.
Jacob RR, Gacad A, Pfund C, Padek M, Chambers DA, Kerner JF, Sales A, Dobbins M, Kumanyika S, Brownson RC. The "secret sauce" for a mentored training program: qualitative perspectives of trainees in implementation research for cancer control. BMC Med Educ. 2020 Jul 28;20(1):237. doi: 10.1186/s12909-020-02153-x. PubMed PMID: 32723326; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7385963.
Angell SY, McConnell MV, Anderson CAM, Bibbins-Domingo K, Boyle DS, Capewell S, Ezzati M, de Ferranti S, Gaskin DJ, Goetzel RZ, Huffman MD, Jones M, Khan YM, Kim S, Kumanyika SK, McCray AT, Merritt RK, Milstein B, Mozaffarian D, Norris T, Roth GA, Sacco RL, Saucedo JF, Shay CM, Siedzik D, Saha S, Warner JJ. The American Heart Association 2030 Impact Goal: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2020 Mar 3;141(9):e120-e138. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000758. Epub 2020 Jan 29. PubMed PMID: 31992057; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8690536.
Thornton PL, Kumanyika SK, Gregg EW, Araneta MR, Baskin ML, Chin MH, Crespo CJ, de Groot M, Garcia DO, Haire-Joshu D, Heisler M, Hill-Briggs F, Ladapo JA, Lindberg NM, Manson SM, Marrero DG, Peek ME, Shields AE, Tate DF, Mangione CM. New research directions on disparities in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2020 Feb;1461(1):5-24. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14270. Epub 2019 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 31793006; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7159314.
Kumanyika S. Overcoming Inequities in Obesity: What Don't We Know That We Need to Know?. Health Educ Behav. 2019 Oct;46(5):721-727. doi: 10.1177/1090198119867319. Epub 2019 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 31375036.
Kumanyika SK. A Framework for Increasing Equity Impact in Obesity Prevention. Am J Public Health. 2019 Oct;109(10):1350-1357. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305221. Epub 2019 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 31415203; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6727309.
Kumanyika SK. Unraveling common threads in obesity risk among racial/ethnic minority and migrant populations. Public Health. 2019 Jul;172:125-134. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.04.010. Epub 2019 Jun 19. PubMed PMID: 31227270; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6698150.
Swinburn BA, Kraak VI, Allender S, Atkins VJ, Baker PI, Bogard JR, Brinsden H, Calvillo A, De Schutter O, Devarajan R, Ezzati M, Friel S, Goenka S, Hammond RA, Hastings G, Hawkes C, Herrero M, Hovmand PS, Howden M, Jaacks LM, Kapetanaki AB, Kasman M, Kuhnlein HV, Kumanyika SK, Larijani B, Lobstein T, Long MW, Matsudo VKR, Mills SDH, Morgan G, Morshed A, Nece PM, Pan A, Patterson DW, Sacks G, Shekar M, Simmons GL, Smit W, Tootee A, Vandevijvere S, Waterlander WE, Wolfenden L, Dietz WH. The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report. Lancet. 2019 Feb 23;393(10173):791-846. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32822-8. Epub 2019 Jan 27. Review. PubMed PMID: 30700377.
Barnhill A, Palmer A, Weston CM, Brownell KD, Clancy K, Economos CD, Gittelsohn J, Hammond RA, Kumanyika S, Bennett WL. Grappling With Complex Food Systems to Reduce Obesity: A US Public Health Challenge. Public Health Rep. 2018 Nov/Dec;133(1_suppl):44S-53S. doi: 10.1177/0033354918802793. PubMed PMID: 30426872; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6243440.
Ralston J, Brinsden H, Buse K, Candeias V, Caterson I, Hassell T, Kumanyika S, Nece P, Nishtar S, Patton I, Proietto J, Salas XR, Reddy S, Ryan D, Sharma AM, Swinburn B, Wilding J, Woodward E. Time for a new obesity narrative. Lancet. 2018 Oct 20;392(10156):1384-1386. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32537-6. Epub 2018 Oct 10. PubMed PMID: 30316458.
Kumanyika SK. Supplement overview: what the Healthy Communities Study is telling us about childhood obesity prevention in U.S. communities. Pediatr Obes. 2018 Oct;13 Suppl 1:3-6. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12478. PubMed PMID: 30345706.
Kumanyika SK, Morales KH, Allison KC, Russell Localio A, Sarwer DB, Phipps E, Fassbender JE, Tsai AG, Wadden TA. Two-Year Results of Think Health! ¡Vive Saludable!: A Primary Care Weight-Management Trial. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Sep;26(9):1412-1421. doi: 10.1002/oby.22258. Epub 2018 Aug 29. PubMed PMID: 30160061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6143399.
Perez-Escamilla R, Bermudez O, Buccini GS, Kumanyika S, Lutter CK, Monsivais P, Victora C. Nutrition disparities and the global burden of malnutrition. BMJ. 2018 Jun 13;361:k2252. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2252. PubMed PMID: 29899012; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5996967.
Chrisinger BW, DiSantis KI, Hillier AE, Kumanyika SK. Family food purchases of high- and low-calorie foods in full-service supermarkets and other food retailers by Black women in an urban US setting. Prev Med Rep. 2018 Jun;10:136-143. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.02.018. eCollection 2018 Jun. PubMed PMID: 29755932; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5945917.
Kumanyika S. Moving from Silos to Systems in Black Women's Health Research. Meridians. 2018 May; 16(2):238-252. doi: 10.2979/meridians.16.2.05.
Krasnik A, Bhopal RS, Gruer L, Kumanyika SK. Advancing a unified, global effort to address health disadvantages associated with migration, ethnicity and race. Eur J Public Health. 2018 May 1;28(suppl_1). doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cky046. PubMed PMID: 29617992.
Nau C, Kumanyika S, Gittelsohn J, Adam A, Wong MS, Mui Y, Lee BY. Identifying Financially Sustainable Pricing Interventions to Promote Healthier Beverage Purchases in Small Neighborhood Stores. Prev Chronic Dis. 2018 Jan 25;15:E12. doi: 10.5888/pcd15.160611. PubMed PMID: 29369758; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5798217.
Padek M, Mir N, Jacob RR, Chambers DA, Dobbins M, Emmons KM, Kerner J, Kumanyika S, Pfund C, Proctor EK, Stange KC, Brownson RC. Training scholars in dissemination and implementation research for cancer prevention and control: a mentored approach. Implement Sci. 2018 Jan 22;13(1):18. doi: 10.1186/s13012-018-0711-3. PubMed PMID: 29357876; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5778694.
Hawkes C, Alderman H, Chaloupka F, Harris J, Kumanyika S, Smed S, Story M, Swinburn B, Willett W. Principles behind evaluations of national food and beverage taxes and other regulatory efforts. Obes Rev. 2017 Nov;18(11):1374-1375. doi: 10.1111/obr.12594. Epub 2017 Sep 18. PubMed PMID: 28925079.
Isselmann DiSantis K, Kumanyika S, Carter-Edwards L, Rohm Young D, Grier SA, Lassiter V. Sensitizing Black Adult and Youth Consumers to Targeted Food Marketing Tactics in Their Environments. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Oct 29;14(11). doi: 10.3390/ijerph14111316. PubMed PMID: 29109377; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5707955.
Guiding Principles for Developing Dietary Reference Intakes Based on Chronic Disease. 2017 Aug 3;. doi: 10.17226/24828. Review. PubMed PMID: 29200241.
Lobstein T, Brinsden H, Gill T, Kumanyika S, Swinburn B. Comment: obesity as a disease - some implications for the World Obesity Federation's advocacy and public health activities. Obes Rev. 2017 Jul;18(7):724-726. doi: 10.1111/obr.12554. Epub 2017 May 10. PubMed PMID: 28489340.
Cheskin LJ, Frutchey R, McDermott AY, Esposito L, Lee BY, Kumanyika S. Motivating systems-oriented research on environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Jun;12(3):e20-e23. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12132. Epub 2016 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 27060703.
Chen HJ, Xue H, Kumanyika S, Wang Y. School beverage environment and children's energy expenditure associated with physical education class: an agent-based model simulation. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Jun;12(3):203-212. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12126. Epub 2016 Apr 20. PubMed PMID: 27098225.
Dzau VJ, McClellan MB, McGinnis JM, Burke SP, Coye MJ, Diaz A, Daschle TA, Frist WH, Gaines M, Hamburg MA, Henney JE, Kumanyika S, Leavitt MO, Parker RM, Sandy LG, Schaeffer LD, Steele GD Jr, Thompson P, Zerhouni E. Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities From a National Academy of Medicine Initiative. JAMA. 2017 Apr 11;317(14):1461-1470. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.1964. PubMed PMID: 28324029.
Hanson M, Barker M, Dodd JM, Kumanyika S, Norris S, Steegers E, Stephenson J, Thangaratinam S, Yang H. Interventions to prevent maternal obesity before conception, during pregnancy, and post partum. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 Jan;5(1):65-76. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30108-5. Epub 2016 Oct 12. Review. PubMed PMID: 27743974.
Samuel-Hodge CD, Holder-Cooper JC, Gizlice Z, Davis G, Steele SP, Keyserling TC, Kumanyika SK, Brantley PJ, Svetkey LP. Family PArtners in Lifestyle Support (PALS): Family-based weight loss for African American adults with type 2 diabetes. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Jan;25(1):45-55. doi: 10.1002/oby.21700. Epub 2016 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 27911049; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5182111.
Parks EP, Kazak A, Kumanyika S, Lewis L, Barg FK. Perspectives on Stress, Parenting, and Children's Obesity-Related Behaviors in Black Families. Health Educ Behav. 2016 Dec;43(6):632-640. doi: 10.1177/1090198115620418. Epub 2016 Jan 5. PubMed PMID: 26733488; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4935644.
Goldman LR, Kumanyika SK, Shah NR. Putting the Health of Communities and Populations First. JAMA. 2016 Oct 25;316(16):1649-1650. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.14800. PubMed PMID: 27668815.
Kumanyika SK. Efforts to Consume Less Salt: A Public Health Success in the Making. Am J Public Health. 2016 Oct;106(10):1725-6. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303415. PubMed PMID: 27626332; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5024404.
Williams J, Kumanyika S. Is Social Marketing an Effective Tool to Reduce Health Disparities?. Social Marketing Quarterly. 2016 August; 8(4):14-31. doi: 10.1080/15245000309114.
Powell LM, Kumanyika SK, Isgor Z, Rimkus L, Zenk SN, Chaloupka FJ. Price promotions for food and beverage products in a nationwide sample of food stores. Prev Med. 2016 May;86:106-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.01.011. Epub 2016 Jan 29. PubMed PMID: 26827618.
DiSantis KI, Hillier A, Holaday R, Kumanyika S. Why do you shop there? A mixed methods study mapping household food shopping patterns onto weekly routines of black women. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2016 Jan 28;13:11. doi: 10.1186/s12966-016-0333-6. PubMed PMID: 26821926; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4730755.
Kumanyika SK. Health Equity Is the Issue We Have Been Waiting for. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2016 Jan-Feb;22 Suppl 1:S8-S10. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000363. PubMed PMID: 26599034.
Kumanyika SK. Beverage Marketing as a Public Health Policy Target. Am J Public Health. 2015 Nov;105(11):2182. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302893. Epub 2015 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 26378861; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4605164.
Stettler N, Wrotniak BH, Hill DL, Kumanyika SK, Xanthopoulos MS, Nihtianova S, Shults J, Leff SS, Pinto A, Berkowitz RI, Faith MS. Prevention of excess weight gain in paediatric primary care: beverages only or multiple lifestyle factors. The Smart Step Study, a cluster-randomized clinical trial. Pediatr Obes. 2015 Aug;10(4):267-74. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.260. Epub 2014 Sep 24. PubMed PMID: 25251166; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4372512.
Huang TT, Cawley JH, Ashe M, Costa SA, Frerichs LM, Zwicker L, Rivera JA, Levy D, Hammond RA, Lambert EV, Kumanyika SK. Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity. Lancet. 2015 Jun 13;385(9985):2422-31. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61743-8. Epub 2015 Feb 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 25703113.
Phipps E, Chacko L, Fassbender J, Allison K, Sarwer D, Wallace S, Tan-Torres S, Bowman M, Wadden T, Kumanyika S. Provider Views of the Feasibility and Utility of Lifestyle Obesity Treatment in Primary Care: Insights from the Think Health! Study. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare. 2015 February; 3(1):77-. doi: 10.5750/ejpch.v3i1.878.
Morales KH, Kumanyika SK, Fassbender JE, Good J, Localio AR, Wadden TA. Patterns of weight change in black Americans: pooled analysis from three behavioral weight loss trials. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Dec;22(12):2632-40. doi: 10.1002/oby.20904. Epub 2014 Sep 24. PubMed PMID: 25251464; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4236267.
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