Mediator Workgroup

Group Membership:

Organizing Co-chairs: Roll (johnroll@wsu.edu) and McNamara

Members: Jim McKay (U Penn), John Roll (FRI), Joy Chudzynski (FRI),  Barbara Rimer (Duke), Nancy Sherwood (Health Partners), Holly Raynor (Miriam Hospital), Michael Lowe (Drexel), Holly McGregor (U Rochester), Jeff Migneault (BU), Linda Nebeling (NCI), Susan Solomon (OBSSR), Jean Thaw (Drexel), Thomas Prohaska (URI), Isaac Lipkus (Duke), Kim Kirby (TRI), Marcia Ory and Joe Sharkey (HMCRC).

Mission statement:

The mission of the Common Mediators and Processes of Change group is to further the science of health behavior change and maintenance through cross project collaboration. The goals of this endeavor are to increase our understanding of the processes of change and common mediators that influence the likelihood of health behavior change being initiated and subsequently maintained, and the impact of behavior change interventions on these mediators.  Drawing on conceptual and methodological approaches, our specific mission is to identify (and promote analyses of ) common variables that mediate a wide range of health behaviors or that moderate these effects.