Dr. Haleh Aghajani, UTARI Research Scientist, in collaboration with UTA researchers has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Research Program (IRP) Grant. The IRP grant will help fund “From data to personalized preventive medicine: leveraging wearable sensors to promote active living in women of color with obesity” research project. Using combined methodologies of behavioral science, health communication, and data science, the researchers will conduct a mixed-methods study to development personalized feedback messaging system based on data from consumer-facing wearables, such as Fitbit, for women of color with obesity who are at risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
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