4th Annual Advanced Training Institute on Health Behavior Theory
July 6-13, 2008
Fluno Center for Executive Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Faculty
Neil D. Weinstein, Ph.D., was professor in the Department of Human Ecology, at Rutgers University and is now at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He studies risk perception, risk communication, and preventive health behavior. His writings have explored unrealistic optimism about personal risk, public understanding of smoking risks, and misleading tests health behavior theories. With Peter Sandman, he developed the Precaution Adoption Process Model, a stage model of health behavior change, and for several years he led the Theories Project for the Behavioral Research Program within the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Weinstein's
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Rothman received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University and is currently a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Rothman's primary program of research concerns the application of social psychological theory to illness prevention and health promotion and is comprised of a synthesis of basic research on how people process and respond to health information with the development and evaluation of theory-based interventions to promote healthy behavior. He has published a series of articles that examine how people evaluate and process risk-relevant information and has helped to identify the conditions under which people are receptive to information about personal vulnerability. He has also conducted and published several theory-based interventions that test the influence of different forms of persuasive health messages on the performance of a range of health behaviors such as screening mammography and sun screen utilization. In his most recent work, Dr. Rothman has focused on how the relation between people's health beliefs and health behavior unfolds over time. In particular, he has begun to delineate the different decision processes that guide the initiation and maintenance of long-term self-regulatory behavior. In recognition of his work, Dr. Rothman received the 2002 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Rothman's page (http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/faculty/rothman.htm) on the University of Minnesota Web site.
Barbara Curbow, Ph.D. is a social/personality psychologist who is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health of the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida . Dr. Curbow has been an active researcher in the field of psychosocial oncology for over 20 years, particularly in the areas of cancer-related health behaviors, cancer treatment decision-making, and quality of life and survivorship. Dr. Curbow has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods with areas of specialization in instrument development, including psychometric analyses; focus group development, implementation, and analysis; and community-based research.
Dr. Curbow's page on the University of FloridaWeb site can be found at http://bsch.phhp.ufl.edu/facultystaff/faculty.htm#bc
Susan J. Curry, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy and Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago . Her research interests include the development, testing and evaluation of theory-based interventions to change health risk behaviors. Her studies and publications span theory and measurement development (e.g., relapse prevention, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation), randomized trials of brief interventions that can be disseminated on a population basis (e.g., tobacco cessation, reduction of risky drinking practices, adoption of healthful eating, and compliance with breast cancer screening), and health policy research (e.g., the impact of different health insurance coverage on the use and cost effectiveness of tobacco cessation services and the impact of smoking cessation on health care costs and utilization).
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