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2025
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2026-08-06
Theresa Prewitt
Sourced from institutional research profiles (UAMS TRI or ARA).
High Impact
Associate Professor
Faculty Researcher
Health Policy & Management, College of Public Health
28 h-index
57 pubs
4,188 cited
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Theresa Prewitt's research focuses on health policy and management, with a particular interest in determinants of health. Her work has been recognized with a high-impact researcher designation, evidenced by a citation count of 4,188 and an h-index of 28 across 57 publications. One recent publication, "Capacity to address determinants of health among a social justice coalition in the United States," was published in 2025. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Mohammed S. Orloff, Ashley H. Clawson, Dina M. Jones, and Carol E. Cornell, with whom she shares at least one publication.
Metrics
- h-index: 28
- Publications: 57
- Citations: 4,188
Selected Publications
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Capacity to address determinants of health among a social justice coalition in the United States (2025)
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What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions (2025)
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Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities (2024)
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Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities (2024)
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Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health (2023)
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The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food (2020)
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Clinical Nutrition Research and the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review of the ASPEN COVID‐19 Task Force on Nutrition Research (2020)
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Abstract B041: Community-health worker delivered weight loss and maintenance intervention for rural African American adults (2020)
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Examining Rural Food-Insecure Families’ Perceptions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: A Qualitative Study (2020)
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The Curated Food System: A Limiting Aspirational Vision of What Constitutes “Good” Food (2020)
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The WORD: Outcomes of a Behavioral Weight Loss Maintenance Effectiveness Trial in Rural Black Adults of Faith (2020)
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Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance) (2018)
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Do individual, online motivational interviewing chat sessions enhance weight loss in a group‐based, online weight control program? (2016)
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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)
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Examination of costs for a lay health educator-delivered translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in senior centers (2013)
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.
- 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
- Center for Research, Health and Society NIH Co-Investigator
- COVID-19 PREVENT (Partnership for Rapid Engagement to enhance Vaccine uptake for Everyone: Neighbors working Together) Project NIH/Nat. Heart, Lung & Blood Institute via Westat Principal Investigator
- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARKANSAS PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER (ARPRC) CATEGORY 2 NIH Co-Investigator
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Dina M. Jones
3 shared publications
In database
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Elizabeth Taylor
Arkansas Department of Health (US)
3 shared publications
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Carol E. Cornell
Arkansas Department of Health
3 shared publications
In database
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Pebbles Fagan
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
3 shared publications
In database
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Eric K. Soule
East Carolina University (US)
2 shared publications
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Luke Thomas
East Carolina University (US)
2 shared publications
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Mignonne C. Guy
Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
2 shared publications
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
- What is Social Justice? An Important Approach to Public Health Research, Practice, and Health Care Solutions
Jenil Patel
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
1 shared publication
In database
- Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
Clare C. Brown
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1 shared publication
In database
- Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
Zain Alfanek
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1 shared publication
In database
- Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
M. Kathryn Stewart
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
1 shared publication
- Social determinants of health and COVID-19: An evaluation of racial and ethnic disparities in attitudes, practices, and mental health
Mohammed S. Orloff
Cornell University
1 shared publication
In database
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
Katherine Donald
Cornell University
1 shared publication
In database
- Changes in Capacity Building and Sustained Implementation Among a Statewide Coalition to Address Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Disparities
Nakita Lovelady
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1 shared publication
In database
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
Ruofei Du
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1 shared publication
In database
- Using Concept Mapping to Identify Community Partners’ and Researchers’ Perceptions of Social Justice: A Path Toward Eliminating Chronic Disease Disparities
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