Rie Suzuki, PhD

 

Rie Suzuki received both her PhD in Health Education specializing in Health Behavior with gerontology portfolio certificate and her MA in Health Education specializing in Health Promotion from the University of Texas at Austin.  She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan-Flint giving special attention to the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs at multiple levels to promote health and healthy behaviors for aging and persons with disability living in a low SES community.  In addition to these studies, Rie has major research interests in examining and intervening mediational factors of health behaviors and health outcomes across lifespan, and pursues a line of research in this area.

Prior to this position, she was the post doctoral research fellow in the RRTC, involving with all three strands of RRTC research. Especially she had being coordinating in the development of the patient activation program, overseeing the study protocols and analyzing the data in the development of the QOL measures, conducting and writing a systematic review identifying barriers and facilitators relating to access to primary health care among individuals with disabilities.

She currently serves as a reviewer of the American Journal of Health Behavior, the Health Affairs in Health and the Disability and Health Journal. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Association on Health and Disability as well as the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research at the University of Michigan.