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Stephenie Lemon

Professor of Medicine, Director of the UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine


Research and Background

Dr. Lemon is an epidemiologist and implementation scientist with expertise in multi-level approaches to understanding and addressing obesity and physical activity in diverse communities. Her research has been continuously funded by federal agencies, including the the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control of Prevention since 2004. She is Director of the UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center. Relevant to transportation, Dr. Lemon has expertise pertaining to the association between the built environment, transportation and physical activity in communities. Her research funded through the Physical Activity Policy Research Network-Plus, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, specifically seeks to increase capacity of public health agencies to collaborate in transportation-related decision-making to integrate public health and specifically physical activity opportunity considerations.

Connect with Stephenie Lemon

Stephenie Lemon
stephenie.lemon@umassmed.edu
S7-755, 55 N Lake Ave
Worcester, Massachusetts 01655
https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/133265