Daniel P. O'Connor, Ph.D.
Dean
College
of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Professor
Fellow,
HEALTH Research Institute
Faculty Senate President, 2018
3855
Holman St, GAR 104
Houston,
TX 77204-6015
713-743-2377
Interdisciplinary
Health Research
The
most important scientific questions about health and wellness cannot be
investigated adequately by a single discipline or academic department. I have
collaborated on research studies, scientific articles, presentations, grants,
and proposals with more than 100
investigators from many different institutions, scientific disciplines, and
health professions. See my PubMed
or Google
Scholar profiles to see the scope of work and collaborators.
Specific
areas of interest:
·
Evaluating and
explaining individual variation in health outcomes and health-related quality
of life.
·
Contextual
effects: how characteristics of the social and physical environments and
systems affect health.
·
Physical
activity, exercise, anthropometry, obesity, surgery & rehabilitation
outcomes, health and wellness, quality of life.
Externally
Funded Research
As
Principal Investigator I have been awarded $7.7 million in external funding
since 2007 (8 awards), and I have participated as a co-investigator in research
funded by an additional $10 million in external awards (23 awards) in that
time. Sponsoring agencies have included CDC, NASA, NIH, U.S. Department of
Education, and private and public foundations.
Selected projects:
United
Health Foundation
·
Co-Principal Investigator (with Ezemenari Obasi): A Community
Collaborative for Preventing and Treating Obesity in Underserved Communities in
Houston. January 2017 - December 2020. (co-Principal Investigator Ezemenari
M. Obasi)
National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
·
Co-Investigator: CMV Infection and NK-Cell Therapy for
Multiple Myeloma. (Principal
Investigator Richard Simpson).
·
Co-Investigator: U-HAND (University of Houston /MD
Anderson) Program to Reduce Cancer Disparities. (Principal Investigator Lorraine Reitzel).
·
Consultant: Food environment measurement with people
with mobility impairments. (Principal Investigator Rebecca E. Lee).
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
·
Principal Investigator: Best
Evaluation Tools and Techniques for Effective Recommendations for Policies
(BETTER Policies). October 2011 to September
2016.
Cancer
Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)
·
Co-Investigator: Taking Texas Tobacco Free Through a
Sustainable Education/Training Program Designed for Personnel Addressing
Tobacco Control in Behavioral Health Settings.. September 2020 to August 2022. (Principal
Investigator Lorraine Reitzel).
·
Co-Investigator: Taking Texas Tobacco Free: Increasing
Tobacco Cessation in Substance Use Treatment Centers via an Evidence-Based,
Comprehensive Tobacco-Free Workplace Program. September 2017 to August 2020. (Principal Investigator Lorraine
Reitzel).
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