Community Development
Research related to community development in the Lamm Lab
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Researchers Nekeisha Randall, Katie Sanders, Alexa Lamm, and Alison Berg recently published an article in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior to help explain the influence of culture on rural residents’ perceptions of a food access and physical activity intervention. The intervention, called Healthier Together, aims to increase policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes…
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Thrilled to share Dr. Catherine (Katie) Sanders passed her dissertation defense with flying colors on January 17th. Paving the way for amazing things, Katie is the first to complete this crucial step in the new ALEC PhD program and did us proud showing us all how it is done, and done well! Her research, titled…
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Katie Sanders, Tatevik Markosyan, and Alexa Lamm, members of the Healthier Together evaluation team, traveled to Calhoun, Clay, Dooly, Stewart, and Taliaferro counties during November to report findings from the 2021-2022 evaluation of the project. Healthier Together is a CDC-funded health promotion project led by Cooperative Extension to increase access to healthy foods and physical…
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Katie Sanders, a doctoral candidate in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication department at the University of Georgia, travelled to Boston, Massachusetts this month to present research at the American Public Health Association. Sanders, part of the evaluation team for Healthier Together, participated in a roundtable discussion about the challenges evaluating rural communities and how…
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Undergraduate field work research assistant Emily Armstrong describes her summer on the Healthier Together team, assisting in research across rural Georgia counties.
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Undergraduate researcher and evaluator Saher Dossani describes her experience analyzing survey data from Healthier Together communities during summer 2022.
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Tran describes how her undergraduate research experience with Healthier Together enriched her public health major
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Logan Hartzell highlights the importance of conducting undergraduate research to enhance community-engaged service learning
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Doctoral candidate Katie Sanders published a pilot article for her dissertation focused on identity-oriented evaluation
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Undergraduate researcher Kasi Romo describes her experience conducting summer research for the Healthier Together Communications team