Lisaann S. Gittner, Ph.D.

Biography

LisaAnn S. Gittner, PhD is an assistant professor of Public Policy at Texas Tech University, Department of Political Science and of Public Health at Texas Tech University Health Science Center. She is also an associate in the Laura Bush Institute for Women's Health and a member of the Obesity Research Cluster. She has studied early life obesity since 2006. She has modeled obesity etiology and growth trajectories in early life and are currently expanding the work to the elimination of childhood obesity in minority communities. She also developed the content for, built, and tested the implementation of a serious game to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities in patients with diabetes, hypertension and COPD in medically and socially disenfranchised communities. See full biography here.