Biography

Stephenie C. Lemon, PhD is Professor and Chief of the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences. Dr. Lemon is a behavioral epidemiologist and applied public health researcher whose research promotes health equity using community engaged approaches. serves as Co-Director of the UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center and Director of the Community Engagement Core of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Her program of research focuses on chronic disease prevention and control in the realms of intervention and implementation science across a range of clinical and community settings.  Her work emphasizes the role of policy, organizational and social contextual factors in achieving behavior change. Her program of research includes intervention, implementation and policy research addressing community and public health capacity building related to the built environment and community design, food access and security, chronic disease management and emerging issues such as climate change and vaccine promotion.