Our ResEarch Team 

The Physical Activity and Health Promotion Lab is coordinated by a small team but we have active collaborations with a number of other faculty and students in the lab and at other institutions. The lab is the primary lab for Dr. Greg Welk but is a shared space and resource for a number of other faculty in the Department. Backgrounds on Dr. Welk and the other Ph.D. students currently working directly in the lab are listed below. Click here to see listing of previous graduate students working through the lab


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Greg Welk, Ph.D.
​Dr. Welk is the Barbara E. Forker Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and a Distinguished Professor of Human Sciences at Iowa State University (ISU). He coordinates a campus-wide Translational Research Network at ISU known as U-TuRN and leads several translational projects designed to promote physical activity and physical activity in different segments of the population. He leads a team that coordinates local implementation and statewide dissemination of the evidence-based Walk with Ease intervention.
 
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Mingyue Zhang M.S. 
Mingyue is a Ph.D. Candidate working on his dissertation research. His research interests focus on ... 
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Jimmy Duhamahoro, M.S.
Jimmy is a Ph.D. candidate working on his dissertation research. His research interests span the assessment of physical activity and wider applications of physical activity research in health promotion programs. He is also interested in the dissemination and implementation aspects of research translation. Currently, he is working on the FLASH project.
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Madhawa Perera, M.S. 
Madhawa is a Ph.D. student in the lab with interests related to youth physical activity assessment and surveillance. He is a lead member of the research team working with the youth activity profile tool and also is a leader of the Community Connections and Public Health (CCPH) outreach group that is working on local and state outreach programming focused on physical activity. 
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