The nutritional concerns of women, infants, and children and developing effective interventions to address these concerns have been the focus of my scholarly work. Our research group used e- and m-health communications technologies to help pregnant and postpartum women develop and maintain behaviors that promote healthy body weights, which involved faculty and students in the Communications Department, as well as, the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell and faculty collaborators at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Data analysis determined the effectiveness of the integrated mobile phone and interactive web site interventions that were tested in a randomized controlled trial.
