Theresa Prewitt

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Associate Professor

UAMS

Health Policy & Management, College of Public Health

28 h-index 57 pubs 4,188 cited

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Theresa Prewitt's research focuses on public health, with a particular emphasis on obesity, weight management, and health disparities among diverse populations. She has investigated factors influencing weight loss in groups including Black, White, and Hispanic men and women, as well as the relationship between body mass index and body fat in Black populations from Nigeria, Jamaica, and the United States. Her work has also explored abdominal adiposity and its association with metabolic syndrome clustering in American populations.

Prewitt's publications include studies on dietary guidelines, the impact of dietary protein on weight reduction, and the role of fatty acids in human plasma phospholipids. She has also examined minority participation in cancer research and explored internet-delivered behavioral treatments for obesity. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 28 and over 4,000 citations across 57 publications, designating her as a highly cited researcher.

She leads a research group at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and collaborates with colleagues such as Mohammed S. Orloff, Pebbles Fagan, Ashley H. Clawson, and Ruofei Du.

Metrics

h-index: 28
Publications: 57
Citations: 4,188

Selected Publications

Capacity to address determinants of health among a social justice coalition in the United States (2025)

Health Promotion International DOI OpenAlex
What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions (2025)

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities DOI OpenAlex
Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities (2024)

Health Equity 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities (2024)

American Journal of Public Health 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health (2023)

PLOS Global Public Health 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food (2020)

Preprints.org 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Clinical Nutrition Research and the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of the ASPEN COVID‐19 Task Force on Nutrition Research (2020)

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 79 citations DOI OpenAlex
Abstract B041: Community-health worker delivered weight loss and maintenance intervention for rural African American adults (2020)

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention DOI OpenAlex
Examining Rural Food-Insecure Families’ Perceptions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: A Qualitative Study (2020)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 24 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food (2020)

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
The WORD: Outcomes of a Behavioral Weight Loss Maintenance Effectiveness Trial in Rural Black Adults of Faith (2020)

Obesity 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance) (2018)

American Journal of Health Promotion 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
Do individual, online motivational interviewing chat sessions enhance weight loss in a group‐based, online weight control program? (2016)

Obesity 42 citations DOI OpenAlex
The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance): design of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of an evidence-based weight loss and maintenance intervention translated for a faith-based, rural, African American population using a community-based participatory approach (2014)

Contemporary Clinical Trials 38 citations DOI OpenAlex
Examination of costs for a lay health educator-delivered translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in senior centers (2013)

Preventive Medicine 31 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Identifying Retail Pricing Options to Encourage Healthy Food Purchases by African American Caregivers with Low Incomes Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via University of Pennsylvania Principal Investigator
Internet Assisted Obesity Treatment: Enhanced by Motivational Interviewing? NIH/Nat. Inst. of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases via University of Vermont Principal Investigator
FOOD AS MEDICINE: ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (FOOD INSECURITY) TO EFFECT CLINICAL OUTCOMES (CEAL) Westat via Westat Principal Investigator
Community Engagement Research Alliance (CEAL) 2023-2024 Renewal NIH/Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Institute via Westat Principal Investigator
Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD): An NIMHD Exploratory COE NIH Co-Investigator
Learning Action Network - Boston Medical JPB Foundation via Boston Medical Center Principal Investigator
Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD): An NIMHD COE NIH Co-Investigator
Examining Food Insecurity in Rural America Share Our Strength via North Carolina State University Principal Investigator