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Dr. Elaine Borawski Appointed to Community Nutrition Professorship
Posted: January 5th, 2012
Elaine A. Borawski, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty, students and friends gathered on Wednesday, January 4 to celebrate the inaugural appointment of the Angela Bowen Williamson Professorship in Community Nutrition to Elaine A. Borawski, PhD.
Dr. Borawski is an associate professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine and is the PI and co-director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funded center focused on community-based prevention research.
The professorship was established by James Williamson to honor his wife Angela Bowen Williamson and her military service as a dietician during World War II and later career as a nutritionist.
Terry Allan, health commissioner for the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, shared remarks at the ceremony describing Dr. Borawski's impact on community health. "Extraordinary leaders with Elaine's drive, energy and commitment are vital to creating the conditions in which all Greater Clevelanders can be healthy," said Allan. "The health and social service needs of the most vulnerable children and families have outpaced the resources available to meet them, and Elaine's work as the inaugural Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition will be essential in identifying ways to bridge that gap."
Trained as a medical sociologist with postdoctoral training in public health and epidemiology, Dr. Borawski has over 15 years of experience in community-based health research with a focus on school and neighborhood level interventions. Her expertise encompasses behavioral intervention program efficacy and effectiveness studies, process evaluation, health behavior surveillance and survey development and design. Her primary research has focused on reducing adolescent risk behavior (tobacco prevention, obesity prevention through nutrition and physical activity and STD/HIV prevention).
Dr. Borawski has served as a PI and co-investigator on a number of longitudinal studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and CDC, and she has developed methodological expertise in longitudinal methods. She is currently one of three PIs of a $12.5 million, seven-year National Heart Lung and Blood Institute-funded childhood obesity study that intervenes with overweight and obese teens through a multi-level (individual, family, school and neighborhood) intervention.
In addition to her past and current service on a number of national committees focused on prevention research, Dr. Borawski recently completed a four-year term on the NIH Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Preventing HIV/AIDS Study Section. She has served as an ad hoc reviewer on numerous NIH and CDC review panels related to HIV and teen pregnancy prevention, physical activity, obesity, tobacco prevention, youth development and adolescent risk behavior. Dr. Borawski is currently the President of the American Academy of Health Behavior, a national organization of health behavior researchers.
