Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Dr. Barr-Anderson's research focuses on physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and obesity prevention in children and adults. She is particularly interested in home- and community-based, environmental interventions that incorporate both physical activity and nutrition to achieve healthy outcomes and to decrease racial/ethnic health inequalities.
She has been the Principal Investigator of grants from the General Mills Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NIH Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program and Co-Investigator on several NIH R01 grants. Her current projects: 1) explore the factors within the home activity and food environments that interplay with individual and interpersonal factors to contribute to overweight and obesity in African-American girls age 4-8 years, and 2) examine the use of yoga to address cardiovascular risk factors in sedentary African-American women.
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