Professor Kenneth Resnicow

Kenneth’s expertise is in design and evaluation of health promotion interventions and motivational interviewing (MI), and in conceptualizing and designing culturally sensitive community-based interventions for health promotion, particularly in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, and smoking prevention. His 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.