Professor & Director, Children’s Healthy Living Center of ExcellenceCollege of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Work Email: novotny@hawaii.edu
Research Interests
Nutritional epidemiology, global nutrition, breast feeding and growth.
Recent Publications
- Reynolds K, Go AS, Leong TK, Boudreau DM, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Fortmann SP, Goldberg RJ, Gurwitz JH, Magid DJ, Margolis KL, McNeal CJ, Newton KM, Novotny R, Quesenberry CP Jr, Rosamond WD, Smith DH, VanWormer JJ, Vupputuri S, Waring SC, Williams MS, Sidney S. Trends in Incidence of Hospitalized Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN)" Am J Med. 2017 Mar;130(3):317-327. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.09.014. Epub 2016 Oct 14.PMID:27751900.
- Matanane L Fialkowski MK, Silva J, Li F, Nigg C, Leon Guerrero RT, Novotny R. Para I Famagu’on-Ta : Fruit and Vegetable Intake, Food Store Environment, and Childhood Overweight/Obesity in the Children’s Healthy Living Program on Guam. Hawaii J Med Public Health; 2017; Volume 76, No. 8, Aug.
- Novotny R, Li F, Leon Guerrero R, Coleman P, Tufa A, Bersamin A, Deenik J, Wilkens LR. Dual burden of malnutrition in US Affiliated Pacific jurisdictions in the Children’s Healthy Living Program. BMC Public Health(2017) 17:483; DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4377-6.
- Mikkelsen BE, Novotny R, Gittelsohn J. Multi-Level, Multi-Component Approaches to Community Based Interventions for HealthyLiving—A Three Case Comparison. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 1023; doi:10.3390/ijerph13101023.
Recent Grants
- Child Health Assessment for the Pacific (CHAP). 2016-2019. Novotny R and Fialkowski MK (Co-PI) University of Hawaii. USDA/NIFA. $274,780. GRANT11901095.
- SNAP-ED and EFNEP Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Center of Excellence: Creating Healthy Local Places. 2015-2018. Stephenson L, PI, $1,000,000 University of Tennessee. USDA/NIFA. Novotny R: Co-Investigator/Co-Project Director ($113,944). 2015-67001-24289.
- Children’s Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region (CHL). 2011-2017. USDA/AFRI/NIFA. Novotny R, Principal Investigator/Director. $24,777,481 (Award no. 2011-68001-30335, CRIS no. 0224871).
Current Graduate Students
- Jean Butel (Doctorate Public Health) Applying the Collective Efficacy Mechanism to Action Model to the Children’s Healthy Living program: a Multilevel, Multisite Intervention. CHL study.
- Ashley Yamanaka (PhD Epidemiology) Diabetes in chronic and infectious disease. Chair.
- Michelle Blas Laguana (PhD Nutrition) Child food frequency questionnaire for Guam. Chair. CHL study.
- Ashley McGuigan (PhD Botany) Importance of agroforests for human health and social-ecological resilience in Fiji.
- Elise DelaCruz-Talbert (PhD Epidemiology) The food environment. Chair. CHL Study.
- Aifili Tufa (PhD Epidemiology) CHL American Samoa: Child obesity and Acanthosis Nigricans. Chair. CHL Study.
