i-BSHS Feb 2021- Gary Bennett, Ph.D.

The Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences is pleased to bring the i-BSHS Seminar Series to the Brown University School of Public Health. The next guest speaker this year is Gary Bennett, Ph.D. This event is co-sponsored by the C.V. Starr Foundation.

Gary G. Bennett, Ph.D. is the Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Global Health and Medicine and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University. Dr. Bennett’s research program designs, tests, and disseminates digital obesity treatments. He is especially interested in integrating digital health treatments into the primary care setting, particularly those that serve medically vulnerable patients. Dr. Bennett developed the interactive obesity treatment approach (iOTA); his recent work demonstrates the effectiveness of coach-led, obesity treatments – delivered via app, texting, and interactive voice response – in preventing obesity and improving cardiometabolic functioning. His intervention trials in medically vulnerable communities have been the focus of numerous invited addresses for professional and lay audiences.

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