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Jorge BANDA

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Name: Jorge BANDA

 

Department: Department of Public Health

Department Website: https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/public-health/directory/index.php

Institution: Purdue University

 

Address: 610 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

 

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Expertise: Dr. Banda’s research merges the fields of exercise science, public health, and social psychology to develop creative solutions to improve child health. His research interests focus on 1) developing, evaluating, and disseminating community-based interventions to decrease sedentary behavior, increase physical activity, and prevent and treat obesity in children and 2) using accelerometers and innovative data analysis strategies to improve estimates of child sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity. Dr. Banda’s research uses an interdisciplinary team approach to accomplish these research aims, involving social psychologists, exercise scientists, statisticians, and physicians.



 

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