Rate My Professor Renée Umstattd Meyer

Her research specializations include physical activity, active living, and sedentary behavior, with emphasis on advancing access to healthy living opportunities among underserved rural communities through community-engaged mixed-methods research, as well as policy, systems, and environmental strategies. She leads the Rural Hub of the CDC-funded Physical Activity Policy Research and Evaluation Network and co-chaired dissemination efforts for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Physical Activity Research Center. Umstattd Meyer is a Fellow and Past-President of the American Academy of Health Behavior, holds Master Certified Health Education Specialist certification, and has received honors such as Outstanding Research Poster at the AAHB 22nd Annual Meeting. Key publications include A scoping review of policies to encourage breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity among rural people and places in the United States (BMC Public Health, 2024), Implementation characteristics that may promote sustainability of a rural physical activity initiative: Examination of Play Streets (Implementation Science Communications, 2024), and authored guides such as the Guide to Implementing Play Streets in Rural Communities (2019) and the Guide to Activating Rural America through Active Living Policies (2021). She has served as managing co-editor of Health Behavior and Policy Review and on editorial boards for Health Behavior Research and the Journal of Healthy Eating and Active Living.