College/Department: College of Health and Human Sciences
Susan Baker
Professor and Extension specialist Baker focuses on community-based nutrition education programs for low-resource audiences.
Laura Bellows
Bellows focuses on nutrition education, childhood obesity, health promotion and disease prevention, and physical activity.
Barry Braun
Braun, head of the Department of Health and Exercise Science, researches the use of exercise to prevent and/or manage type-2 diabetes and the recurrence of breast cancer and the impact of activity on hormonal regulation of appetite.
Marisa Bunning
Bunning, an Extension specialist in food safety, specializes in food safety communication; post-harvest produce safety and quality; food processing; and consumer food handling behavior.
Douglas Coatsworth
The director of the CSU Prevention Research Center, Coatsworth focuses on promoting health and well-being through family interventions that foster positive parenting, effective family functioning, and youth resilience. He also studies mindfulness and compassion-based interventions for youth, families and organizations.
Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Cunningham-Sabo focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating nutrition and physical activity programs for children and adults in Hispanic and American Indian communities.
Patricia Davies
Davies, director of the Brainwaves Research Laboratory at CSU, focuses on understanding the development of neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie cognitive and motor behaviors in children with and without disorders.
Manfred Diehl
University Distinguished Professor Diehl addresses how successful and healthy adult development and aging can be promoted by changing people’s negative views of aging, and by educating them about healthy lifestyle changes.
Frank Dinenno
Dinenno, director of the Human Cardiovascular Physiology Lab, researches the effects of aging and lifestyle factors on overall cardiovascular structure and function, and how these effects relate to human health and disease.
Brian Dunbar
Brian Dunbar is the executive director for the Institute for the Built Environment; his research focuses on green and sustainable building.