DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Reduction of Cancer Risk and Disparities

Research Abstract

S. Bryn Austin, ScD, is Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Boston. She is also Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. With expertise in the behavioral sciences and social epidemiology, her research includes examination of social and physical environmental influences on cancer risk behaviors in adolescents and young adults. Her areas of specialization include overweight, disordered weight control behaviors, tobacco and alcohol use, and other behaviors in adolescents and young adults with consequences for cancer and chronic disease risk. Much of her work relates to health disparities, particularly sexual orientation group disparities in health exposures and outcomes. She has been the PI of a number of funded grants to study the distribution and determinants of sexual orientation group disparities in health, including grants from the American Cancer Society (“Breast and Colon Cancer in Lesbian and Bisexual Women: A Prospective Study” RSGT-07-172-01-CPPB) and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (“Sexual Orientation and Health Disparities in Adolescence” R01 HD045763).

Publications

• Austin SB, Kim J, Wiecha J, Troped PJ, Feldman HA, Peterson KE.School-based overweight preventive intervention lowers incidence of disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girls.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2007 Sep;161(9):865-9.
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• Ziyadeh NJ, Prokop LA, Fisher LB, Rosario M, Field AE, Camargo CA, Austin SB.Sexual orientation, gender, and alcohol use in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent girls and boys.Drug Alcohol Depend 2007 Mar 16;87(2-3):119-30.
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• Austin SB, Melly SJ, Sanchez BN, Patel A, Buka S, Gortmaker SL.Clustering of fast-food restaurants around schools: a novel application of spatial statistics to the study of food environments.Am J Public Health 2005 Sep;95(9):1575-81.
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• Austin SB, Field AE, Wiecha J, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL.The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girls.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005 Mar;159(3):225-30.
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• Austin SB, Ziyadeh N, Kahn JA, Camargo CA, Colditz GA, Field AE.Sexual Orientation, Weight Concerns, and Eating-Disordered Behaviors in Adolescent Girls and Boys.J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2004 Sep;43(9):1115-1123.
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• Austin SB, Ziyadeh N, Fisher LB, Kahn JA, Colditz GA, Frazier AL.Sexual orientation and tobacco use in a cohort study of US adolescent girls and boys.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2004 Apr;158(4):317-22.
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• Austin SB, Gortmaker SL.Dieting and smoking initiation in early adolescent girls and boys: a prospective study.Am J Public Health 2001 Mar;91(3):446-50.
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