Season 2, Episode #2. 

Dr. Dan Hatfield is a senior public health researcher at FHI360 with 15 years of experience developing, evaluating, and replicating community and behavioral interventions promoting healthy eating and physical activity, particularly in children, adolescents, and families. Previously, as a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University, he served as principal or co-investigator on 13 federal and foundation-funded research grants, and he taught graduate courses in behavioral theory, health communications, and public health. His subject-matter expertise spans diverse domains, including nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, health communications, and theory-based intervention design.

Dan talks with us about the opportunities for and barriers to programs that aim to get communities more physically active.

Highlights of the episode:

*Susan introduces Dan [0:56];

*Dan’s background and path to becoming a scientist [2:08];

*Dan talks about the more and less well known benefits of physical activity [7:27];

*Some of the impediments to getting individuals and communities active [12:37];

*Dan’s work in helping to establish physical activity programs in a community in East Boston [18:11];

*Dan’s current NIH study in partnership with New York Road Runners [29:13];

*Dan’s hopes for the next 5 - 10 years for getting more people moving more [30:39];

*Was there a time when people in the US were moving a lot more? [34:46];

*High school science section — Dan talks about how when solving a problem, you determine the “necessary qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions,

including any requirements set by society,” (From the Technology and Engineering Massachusetts standard HS-ETS1-1. Analyze a major global challenge to specific a design problem that can be improved.) [37:12];

*Dan shares a memory from high school science [44:20];

*Dan gives advice to high school students interested in studying science [46:04]

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