Superfund Research Program

Community Engagement Core

Project Leader: Dawn Brewer
Co-Investigator: Gia Mudd
Grant Number: P42ES007380
Funding Period: 2005-2025

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Publications

2022

• Brewer D, Koempel A, Moellering A, Stephenson T, Kostelic A, Plasencia J, Sheffield A, Guerrant B, Price A. 2022. Building sustainable community-academic partnerships while implementing a nutrition-based blackberry garden program at a senior center. J. Hunger Environ Nutr 13:doi:10.1080/19320248.2022.2099778

2020

• Brewer D, Travis E, Koempel A, Ormsbee LE, Pennell KG. 2020. Community forum identifies opportunities to engage with community leaders about chronic disease and environmental pollution in Eastern Kentucky. Appl Environ Educ Commun 19:187-204. doi:10.1080/1533015X.2019.1597660 PMID:32973411 PMCID:PMC7510481
• Hoover AG, Koempel A, Christian WJ, Tumlin KI, Pennell KG. 2020. Appalachian environmental health literacy: Building knowledge and skills to protect health. J Appalach Health 2:doi:10.13023/jah.0201.06
• Koempel A, Brewer D, Mudd-Martin G, Stephenson T. 2020. Mountains of abundance: a fruit and vegetable walking program in central Appalachia. J Appalach Stud 26(1):106-127. doi:10.5406/jappastud.26.1.0106

2019

• Brewer D, Bellamy H, Hoover AG, Koempel A, Gaetke LM. 2019. Nutrition and environmental pollution extension curriculum improved behaviors and environmental health literacy. Environ Health Insights 13:1-11. doi:10.1177/1178630219836992 PMID:30956525 PMCID:PMC6442077

2018

• Brewer D, Koempel A, McHugh K, Stephenson T. 2018. Walking program with farmers market vouchers increased HDL cholesterol among appalachians. J Acad Nutr Diet 118(9):PageA87. doi:10.1016/j.jand.2018.06.101

2017

• Dunn K, Gaetke LM, Stephenson T, Brewer D. 2017. Older adults’ perception of nutrition being protective against the detrimental health effects of environmental pollution. J Ext 55(4):1-8. PMID:29176912 PMCID:PMC5697776

2016

• Brewer D, Dickens E, Humphrey A, Stephenson T. 2016. Increased fruit and vegetable intake among older adults participating in Kentucky’s congregate meal site program. Educ Gerontol 42:771-784. doi:10.1080/03601277.2016.1231511 PMID:28642630 PMCID:PMC5476306
• Willett Jones E, Feng L, Dixon JK, Hofe C, Gaetke LM. 2016. Nutrition and other protective behaviors motivated by environmental health risk awareness. Open Nutr J 10:1-12. doi:10.2174/1874288201610010001 PMID:28090221 PMCID:PMC5234471

2014

• Hofe C, Feng L, Zephyr D, Stromberg AJ, Hennig B, Gaetke LM. 2014. Fruit and vegetable intake, as reflected by serum carotenoid concentrations, predicts reduced probability of polychlorinated biphenyl-associated risk for type 2 diabetes: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2004. Nutr Res 34(4):285-293. doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2014.02.001 PMID:24774064 PMCID:PMC4008967

2010

• Gaetke LM, Willett E, Hofe C, Finnie M. 2010. Environmental Pollutants and Nutrition: Nuts and Seeds. https://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/fcs3/fcs3545/fcs3545.pdf

2005

• Gaetke LM, Bastin SS. 2005. A nutrition outreach program provides interchange between university researchers and Superfund communities. In: Proceedings of the 46^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition, September 22-25. Kiawah Island, SC.
• Gaetke LM, Bowen C. 2005. Understanding Superfund, helping Kentucky communities through nutrition. In: Proceedings of the Cooperative Extension Service Family and Consumer Sciences Foods and Nutrition Annual Workshop, Winchester, Elizabethtown, and Princeton, KY. Winchester, KY.