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Lucinda L. Bryant, PhD, MBA, MSHA

Associate Professor

Lucinda L. Bryant

Biography:

Lucinda L. Bryant is Associate Professor in the Departments of Community & Behavioral Health and Health Systems, Management & Policy, Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Bryant received PhD (health and behavioral science), MBA and MS Health Administration degrees from the University of Colorado Denver; she brings expertise in social epidemiology, health across the lifespan, community-based research using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and health systems issues. Dr. Bryant has been Principal Investigator of the UCD member center of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Healthy Aging Research Network since its inception in September 2001, conducting community-based research focused on disseminating aging-health promotion research into community practice and policy nationwide, collaborating with a community team in the rural biethnic San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Her research interests include factors that affect healthy aging, community-based health promotion, dissemination of evidence-based programs, rural health and health systems, and related policy.

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Research Interests:

Healthy Aging
Rural Aging and the Physical/Built Environment
Cardiovascular Health Promotion
Community-based Participatory Research Methods
Translation of Research into Public Health Practice

Courses Taught:

Capstone Projects (PUBH 6955)

Public Health and Aging (CBHS 6626)

Current Research Projects:

CDC: Creation of a Prevention Research Network for Healthy Aging, Part 2 (2001-Present, Principal Investigator): This is a special interest project within the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, Co-lead of the PRC-HAN Research Dissemination and Practice Group; development, implementation, and evaluation of network activities; planning, delivering, and evaluating HAN conferences concerning physical activity, depression, and environment and policy; development of Active Options assessment of and guide to community physical activity resources for older adults.

CDC: Creation of a Network of Cardiovascular Health Intervention Research and Translation (2005-Present, Principal Investigator): Co-lead of the PRC-CHIRTN CVH Perceptions project to assess diverse-community members’ knowledge and perceptions of heart health and stroke prevention, to support the CDC National Action Plan; development of plans for identifying gaps in knowledge and conducting the research to fill the gaps.

Education:

Brown University, BA, Russian Studies, 1962

University of Colorado Denver, Graduate School of Business Administration, MBA, 1993

University of Colorado Denver, Graduate School of Business Administration, MS, Health Administration, 1993

University of Colorado Denver, Department of Health and Behavioral Science, PhD, 1998. Dissertation: "Healthy aging: Factors that contribute to positive perceived health in an older population."