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
- Novotny R, Davis J, Butel J, Boushey CJ, Fialkowski MK, Nigg CR, Braun KL, Leon Guerrero RL, Coleman P, Bersamin A, Areta A, Barber LR, Belyeu-Camacho T, Greenberg J, Fleming T, Delacruz-Talbert E, Yamanaka A, Wilkens LR. Effect of the Children’s Healthy Living Program on Yound Child Overweight, Obesity, and Acanthosis Nigricans in the US Affiliated Pacific region: A randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA NETWORK OPEN. 2018;1(6):E183896. DOI:10.1001/JAMANETWORKOPEN.
2018.3896 - Novotny R, Li F, Fialkowski, MK, Bersamin A, Tufa A, Deenik J, Coleman P, Leon Guerrero, RT, Wilkens LR. Prevalence of obesity and acanthosis nigricans among young children in the Children's Healthy Living Program in the United States Affiliated Pacific. Medicine. September 2016 - Volume 95 - Issue 37, p e4711, doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004711.
- Li, F., Wilkens, L. R., Novotny, R., Fialkowski, M. K., Paulino, Y. C., Nelson, R., Boushey, C. J. Anthropometric measurement standardization in the US-affiliated pacific: Report from the Children's Healthy Living Program. Am J Human Bio, 2016 May;28(3):364-71. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22796. Epub 2015 Oct 12.
- Novotny R, Fialkowski MK, Li F, Paulino Y, Vargo D, Jim R, Coleman P, Bersamin A, Nigg C, Leon Guerrero R, Deenik J, Kim JH, Wilkens L. Prevalence of Young Child Overweight and Obesity in the United States Affiliated Pacific Region as Compared to the 48 Contiguous States: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression by the Children's Healthy Living Program. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jan;105(1):e22-e35.2014
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
- 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.
- 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.
