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Ruth Palombo
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Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
Assistant Professor, Nutrition
Nutrition Concentration Leader, MPH Program
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Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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| Education |
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Ph.D., Social Policy
Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
M.S. , Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
M.S., Nutrition and Public Health
Columbia University
B.S., Human Nutrition and Foods
Cornell University
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| Research
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My research interests include development of strategies to promote successful aging among elders with chronic conditions and disabilities; fostering coordination and collaboration between the public health and aging services networks to 1) enhance health promotion and disease prevention programs and 2) to educate and empower older adults to make healthy life choices; development of intergenerational programs to enhance civic engagement; role of public health in end of life issues.
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Palombo, R., Alongi, J., Goldman, A., Greene, R., Lambert, T. and Smith, S. Opportunities for collaboration: linking public health and aging services networks. Generations. 29 (2) 48-53, 2005.
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Stoddard, A.M, Palombo, R., Troped, P.J., Sorensen, G. and Will, J.C. Cardiovascular disease risk reduction: The Massachusetts WISEWOMAN Project. Journal of Women’s Health. 13: 539-546, 2004.
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Palombo, R. Addressing the Social Lives of Older Americans: A New Challenge for Public Health. Dissertation. Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. May, 2003.
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Finkelstein, E.A., Troped, P.J., Will, J.C. and Palombo, R. Cost-effectiveness of a cardiovascular disease risk reduction program aimed at financially vulnerable women: The Massachusetts WISEWOMAN Project. Journal of Women’s Health & Gender-Based Medicine. 11: 519-526, 2002.
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The WISEWOMAN Workgroup. Cardiovascular disease prevention for women attending breast and cervical cancer screening programs. The WISEWOMAN Projects. Preventive Medicine. 28: 496-502, 1999.
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Campbell, M.K., Reynolds, K.D., Havas, S., Curry, S., Bishop, D., Nicklas, T., Palombo, R., Buller, D., Feldman, R., Topor, M., Johnson, C., Beresford, S.A., Motsinger, B.M., Morrill, C., and Heimendinger, J. Stages of change for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among adults and young adults participating in the national 5-a-day for better health community studies. Health Education and Behavior. 26 (4): 513-534, 1999.
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Sorensen, G., Stoddard, A., Peterson, K, Cohen, N., Hunt, M.K., Stein, E., Palombo, R., and Lederman, R. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption through worksites and families in the Treatwell 5-a-Day study. American Journal of Public Health. 89(1): 54-60, 1999.
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Anderson, J.V., Palombo, R.D., and Earl, R. Position of the American Dietetic Association: The role of nutritionin health promotion and disease prevention programs. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 98(2): 205-208, 1998.
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Hunt, M.K., Stoddard, A.M., Glanz, K., Hebert, J.R., Probert, C., Sorensen, G., Hixson, M.L., Linnan, L. and Palombo, R. Measures of food choice behavior related to intervention messages in worksite health promotion. J. Nutr. Educ. 29:3-11, 1997.
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Sorensen, G., Himmelstein, J.S., Hunt, M.K., Youngstrom, R., Hebert, J.R., Hammond, S.K., Palombo, R., Stoddard, A., and Ockene, J.K. A Model for Worksite Cancer Prevention: Integration of Health Protection and Health Promotion in the Wellworks Project. Am. J. Health Promotion 10(1):55-62, 1995
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