This talk will discuss the results of a telephone survey to develop a new racial identity measure.

<a href="http://chcr.umich.edu/who_we_are/people/person.2005-04-12.3473287151/person_view"><b>Ken Resnicow</b></a> is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior
and Health Education at University of Michigan School of Public Health.
His research interests include:&nbsp; the design and evaluation of
health promotion programs for special populations, particularly
cardiovascular and cancer prevention interventions for African
Americans; understanding the relationship between ethnicity and health
behaviors; substance use prevention and harm reduction; motivational
interviewing for chronic disease prevention; Type II diabetes
prevention, and comprehensive school health programs. Current studies
include: Healthy Body Healthy Spirit an NHLBI-funded intervention to
increase physical activity and fruit and vegetable among African
Americans recruited through Black churches using motivational
interviewing;&nbsp; GO GIRLS, an NHLBI funded study to develop an
obesity prevention program for overweight African American adolescent
females; Body and Soul, an NIH/ACS collaboration to disseminate proven
cancer control interventions using lay health advisors: a FOGARTY/NIH
study to develop smoking prevention programs for South African Youth;
and an NCI-funded project to test the impact of ethnic tailoring of
dietary intervention materials.&nbsp; He has conducted &nbsp;MI
workshops for numerous universities, research and practitioner groups
worldwide as well as health voluntary (e.g., American Dietetics
Association, Academy of Pediatrics) and government agencies including
NIH (NIDDK, NICHD) and CDC.<a href="http://chcr.umich.edu/who_we_are/people/person.2005-04-12.3473287151/person_view"></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span><br>