Researcher, Educator, and Public Health Communicator
Since the publication of The dynamics of eating behaviors and eating environment in college students: discrepancies between app-tracked dietary intake and self-perceived food consumption multiple news outlets have cited our study, for example, Why is the ‘freshmen 15’ phenomenon so…
Kang (Kathy) Shen, publishes the research article entitled “Process evaluation of a digital health intervention for dementia caregivers: Integrating active and passive measurements” as the first author on the journal of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, the leading journal in the field…
Dr. Hong has received a new R01 grant entitled “WECARE: A personalized intervention for underserved Chinese American dementia caregivers” from National Institute of Aging. This 5-year research project with funding of $3,088,427 includes Co-Is from Drs. Lily Wang and Jessica…
Dr. Hong has received a new NSF grant (2517316), as a Co-PI for a project entitled “Enhancing AI Literacy and Resilience through Intergenerational Digital Storytelling among Older Adults”. This 3-year research project with funding of $661,000 is a joint collaboration…
Part of Dr. Lisa McKeown’s thesis research will be published as conference presentations at 2025 APHA in Washington DC as oral presentation. One is “Provider-Interacting eHealth Behaviors and Patient-Centered Communication: Trends, Predictors, and Disparities”; the other is “Patient-Centered Communication and…
Yiwen Li made an oral presentation entitled Evaluation of WeCare 2.0: A Digital Health Intervention for Chinese American Dementia Caregivers. Sai made a poster presentation entitled Association of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Nursing Home Quality: A Perspective of Social Determinants…
Our paper Two-year follow-up of dementia caregivers after a digital health intervention WECARE: a mixed-method study. Aging & Mental Health. 2024 Dec 31:1-8. has been published. PubMed link.
Dr. Alicia Hong received funding from Virginia Center for Aging Geriatric Training and Education (GTE) Initiative to support her innovative research. This one-year project, entitled ““Bridging the Gap: Enhancing ADRD Awareness Early Detection and Care through Community Health Worker Training…
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to serve on the NIH Study Section of Lifestyle Change and Behavioral Health (LCBH), which reviews grant applications focusing on the adoption or uptake of health promoting behaviors or lifestyle changes to reduce health risks…
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to give a virtual presentation at the UCSF CARE Registry Brain Trust meeting. Her presentation, entitled “Recruiting Underserved Asian Americans Dementia Caregivers into Digital Interventions” is available here (30:50).