Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Principal Investigator for Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership
Amy J. Schulz was a founding member of the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP), a community-based participatory research partnership made up of community-based organizations, health service providers, community residents, and academic researchers. As PI for HEP, she has been actively engaged in ongoing etiologic and intervention research in Detroit, examining social and environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, since 2000.
Dr. Schulz has considerable experience working with and facilitating community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, and is a leading contributor to the literature on engaging community, academic and public health practice partners in participatory research and intervention efforts. In addition to publications on conceptual frameworks for understanding social determinants of health in urban settings, she conducts etiologic research on the social and environmental (including food, physical activity, social environments and physical environments) contributions to excess cardiovascular risk in low to moderate income urban communities. In addition, she conducts intervention research focused on promoting physical activity and activity friendly environments in urban communities, and teaches courses on community change and environmental health promotion. Dr. Schulz served as a member Sustainable Food Systems Cluster Hire proposal-writing-team, and chaired the search committee for the SPH position in 2011.
