University of Michigan-Flint

Rie Suzuki Assistant Professor, Health Sciences     Department: Health Sciences and Administration Location: 2102 WSWB Phone: 810.762.3172 Email: rsuzuki@umflint.edu

Dr. Suzuki received both her PhD in Health Education specializing in Health Behavior with gerontology portfolio certificate and her MA in Health Education specializing in Health Promotion from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan-Flint giving special attention to the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs for aging and persons with disability living in a low SES community. In addition to these studies, she has major research interests in examining and intervening mediational factors of health behaviors and health outcomes across lifespan, and pursues a line of research in this area.

Prior to this position, she was the post doctoral research fellow in the RRTC at the Oregon Health & Science University, involving with all three strands of RRTC research (e.g., access to health care, health promotion, and quality of life measurement). She had been coordinating the development of the patient activation program, overseeing the study protocols and analyzing the data in the development of the QOL measures, conducting and writing a systematic review identifying barriers and facilitators relating to access to primary health care among individuals with disabilities.

She currently serves as a reviewer of several journals including the American Journal of Health Behavior, the Health Affairs in Health, the American Journal of Health Promotion and the Disability and Health Journal. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Association on Health and Disability.