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| Degrees | B.S. Zoology, with a Certificate in Genetics – 1991 Duke University
M.S. Biostatistics – 1998 Tulane University
Ph.D. Biostatistics – 2004 Tulane University |
| Bio | Stephanie Broyles, Ph.D. is currently Associate Professor of Research and director of the Contextual Risks Factors laboratory at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has been on the faculty of LSUSHC School of Public Health since 2004, holding an adjuct faculty position since 2008. Dr. Broyles has worked in public health for nearly 20 years, and during this time her research has shifted from an early interest in HIV/AIDS epidemiology to a focus on the epidemiology of physical activity and obesity, primarily in pediatric populations. Within this area, her research also seeks to understand contextual (e.g., neighborhood, school, policy) influences on these health and behavioral targets and on longitudinal changes in them, in both observational and interventional settings. Her research was featured in the 2012 HBO documentary series, “The Weight of the Nation.” Dr. Broyles’s work relies heavily on community engagement, and frequently integrates research and service. She brings this approach to her work as co-Director of the Community Outreach and Engagement Resource Core for the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center, a collaboration among all major academic, research, and health care institutions in Louisiana. Methodologically, she has expertise in investigating environmental determinants of health using spatial methods and geographically-linked variables, as well as in multilevel statistical analysis, and she enjoys collaborating on research projects that use novel analytic or study-design techniques. In 2016, Dr. Broyles was awarded the Founder’s Award by the Louisiana Public Health Association, which honors significant achievement in research in public health by a Louisiana resident. Dr. Broyles is available to advise or mentor interested Ph.D. students. |
| Teaching Activities | BCHS 7353 Multilevel Design and Analysis BCHS 6500 Special Topics: Applied Multivariable Regression Analysis |
| Selected Publications | Selected Publications (out of 74 peer-reviewed journal articles, 12/12/2016) Broyles S, Katzmarzyk PT, Srinivasan SR, Chen W, Bouchard C, Freedman DS, Berenson GS. The pediatric obesity epidemic continues unabated in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Pediatrics. 2010 May;125(5):900-5. PubMed PMID: 20368311; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3023706. Broyles ST, Staiano AE, Drazba KT, Gupta AK, Sothern M, Katzmarzyk PT. Elevated C-reactive protein in children from risky neighborhoods: evidence for a stress pathway linking neighborhoods and inflammation in children. PLoS One. 2012;7(9):e45419. PubMed PMID: 23049799; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3458094. Broyles ST, Denstel KD, Church TS, Chaput, J-P, Fogelholm M, Hu G, Kuriyan R, Kurpad A, Lambert EV, Maher C, Maia J, Matsudo V, Olds T, Onywera V, Sarmiento OL, Standage M, Tremblay MS, Tudor-Locke C, Zhao P, Katzmarzyk PT. The epidemiological transition and the global childhood obesity epidemic. Int J Obes Supp. 2015; 5:S3–S8; doi:10.1038/ijosup.2015.12 Broyles ST, Drazba KT, Church TS, Chaput JP, Fogelholm M, Hu G, Kuriyan R, Kurpad A, Lambert EV, Maher C, Maia J, Matsudo V, Olds T, Onywera V, Sarmiento OL, Standage M, Tremblay MS, Tudor-Locke C, Zhao P, Katzmarzyk PT. Development and reliability of an audit tool to assess the school physical activity environment across 12 countries. Int J Obes Suppl. 2015;5(Suppl 2):S36-42. Broyles ST, Myers CA, Drazba KT, Marker AM, Church TS, Newton RL, Jr. The influence of neighborhood crime on increases in physical activity during a pilot physical activity intervention in children. J Urban Health. 2016;93(2):271-278.PubMed PMID: 26951242 Myers CA, Denstel KD, Broyles ST. The context of context: Examining the associations between healthy and unhealthy measures of neighborhood food, physical activity, and social environments. Prev Med. 2016;93:21-26. Kepper MM, Sothern M, Theall K, Griffiths L, Scribner R, Tseng T, Schaettle P, Cwik J, Felker-Kantor E, Broyles ST. Using Google Street View to systematically observe neighborhood environments at high spatial resolution: a feasible and reliable method. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. (in press). Broyles ST, Mowen AJ, Theall KP, Gustat J, Rung AL. Integrating social capital into a park-use and active-living framework. Am J Prev Med. 2011;40(5):522-529. Rung AL, Mowen AJ, Broyles ST, Gustat J. The role of park conditions and features on park visitation and physical activity. J Phys Act Health. 2011;8 Suppl 2:S178-187. Theall KP, Scribner R, Broyles S, Yu Q, Chotalia J, Simonsen N, Schonlau M, Carlin BP. Impact of small group size on neighbourhood influences in multilevel models. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2011;65(8):688-695. |