Daheia Barr-Anderson, PhD, associate professor with the School of Kinesiology has been awarded two grants to fund formative assessment focus groups to refine and implement two interventions.
The National Institutes of Health (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health) awarded funding for the “Feasibility of a Yoga Intervention in Sedentary African-American Women.” Barr-Anderson is the Co-Principal Investigator for this research project along with Mark Pereira, PhD, MPH, a professor within the School of Public Health. The second grant is from the National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities), which will support the project, “Mini-ME – an innovative and fun, early childhood obesity prevention program that will help AA girls aged 4-8 years adopt HEAL practices.” Barr-Anderson is the Principal-Investigator of Subcontract working alongside Principal Investigator Tony Ma, president and founder of Benten Technologies.
