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CESR Staff

Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Rebecca Braganca
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Rebecca Braganca
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro

Donna Spruijt-Metz

Director USC-CESR Mobile and Connected Health Program
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VPD, Room 405E
213.821.1775
dmetz@usc.edu
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Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD Director, USC mHealth Collaboratory Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, University of California     Donna Spruijt-Metz is Director of the USC mHealth Collaboratory at the University of Southern California’s Center for Economic and Social Research (Co-Director, Bill Swartout), and Professor of Research in Psychology. She also holds a complimentary appointment at the Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine. Her main interests include using mobile technologies to develop data sets that combine sensor and self-report data that is continuous, temporally rich, contextualized. Using this data along with innovative modeling techniques, she wants to develop dynamic, contextualized mathematical models of health-related behavior. She was one of the first to undertake a just-in-time, adaptive intervention (JITAI) in youth, and envisions most or all interventions being JITAI in the future. Her research focuses on childhood obesity and mobile health technologies, including the KNOWME Networks project, that developed a Wireless Body Area Network system to decrease sedentariness and increase physical activity in overweight minority youth using a JITAI. She is PI of Virtual Sprouts, a virtual, multiplatform gardening game designed to change dietary knowledge and behavior and prevent obesity in minority youth. She recently led an NSF/EU/NIH-funded workshop in Brussels on building new computationally-enabled theoretical models to support health behavior change and maintenance. Her work meshes 21st century technologies with transdisciplinary metabolic, behavioral and environmental research in order to facilitate the development of dynamic, personalized, contextualized behavioral interventions that can be adapted on the fly. She has a deep interest in harnessing mobile health and new media modalities to bring researchers and researched systems into interaction, to engage people in their own data, and to bring about lasting change in public health.  
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