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Details for Professor Janice Thompson
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Janice Thompson |
| Job title | Visiting Fellow |
| Department | School for Policy Studies University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BS, MS(Calif), PhD(Arizona) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | The Nutrition Society, British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), American Society of Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) |
| Keywords | nutrition physical activity type 2 diabetes cardiovascular disease women's health obesity culturally tailored interventions |
| Areas of expertise | I am researching how to design culturally appropriate nutrition and physical activity programs that can reduce the risk for diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. I am interested in how we can design these types of programs so that people from various socio-economic backgrounds and racial/ethnic communities find them useful and effective. |