Public Health and Health Professions
Janicke Lab
Led by David M Janicke · Clinical and Health Psychology
What we study
The Janicke Lab studies how to improve health behaviors in children, focusing on obesity interventions and using phone counseling and mHealth tech. They also explore provider weight bias in healthcare using virtual human technology.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Examination of provider weight bias in healthcare
Using virtual human technology to study how provider weight bias affects healthcare decisions.
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Recent papers, explained
- Associations of common antipsychotic medications with weight gain in youth and adults: a target trial emulation study
2026 · Journal of Psychiatric Research
- Effects of Common Antihypertensive Class Medications on BMI z‐Score in Adolescents
2026 · Pediatric Obesity
Finds weight effects of antihypertensive medications in adolescents.
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- School-Focused Interventions for Weight-Based Victimization in Youth
2026 · Current Obesity Reports
- Comparative Weight Change With Initiation and Adherence to Common Medications for Type 2 Diabetes
2025 · Obesity
Estimates weight changes from adding diabetes medications.
- Comparative BMI-z Changes With Initiation and Adherence to Antidepressant Medications Among Youth
2025 · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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