Jeanette Gustat

Clinical Associate Professor

  • New Orleans LA UNITED STATES
  • 1440 Canal Street
  • School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
gustat@tulane.edu504-988-1029

Dr. Jeanette Gustat's primary research interest is in the assessment of how behavior and the physical environment impacts health outcomes

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Biography

Dr. Jeanette Gustat's primary research interest is in the assessment of how behavior and the physical environment impacts health outcomes. Her training is in nutritional epidemiology, and she has focused primarily on health outcomes of physical inactivity, obesity and cardiovascular risk factors. She is a co-investigator of the Tulane Prevention Research Center and the Bogalusa Heart Study. She is a part of the Physical Activity Policy Research Network of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and researches physical activity policies on both national and statewide levels. Gustat has also worked with members of the New Orleans' community to develop and implement an intervention to increase physical activity in the community. She has been funded by the NIH, CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and the Tulane Center for Public Service. She is the course director for the core methods course in the department and teaches an undergraduate course in nutrition and chronic disease.

Areas of Expertise

Obesity
Nutritional Epidemiology
Physical Activity Policies
Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Education

Tulane University

Ph.D.

Tulane University

M.P.H.

Valaparaiso

B.A.

Media Appearances

The Pros and Cons of Being a Weekend Warrior

US News Health  

2017-02-02

“Many people don’t do much during the week, but do have a little more free time on the weekends, and that’s when they get involved in activities,” says Jeanette Gustat, an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.

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Articles

Use of a public park for physical activity in the Caribbean: evidence from a mixed methods study in Jamaica

BMC Public Health

Colette Cunningham-Myrie, Althea Bailey, Katherine P Theall, Joy E. Harrison, Marvin E. Reid

2019

Small island Caribbean countries such as Jamaica are now facing an epidemic of obesity and decreased physical activity (PA) levels. Public parks have been shown to be important resources for PA that also provide psychological and social benefits associated with increased PA. There are no studies that document PA in parks in the Caribbean.

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The association between sleep chronotype and obesity among black and white participants of the Bogalusa Heart Study

Chronobiology International

Xunming Sun, Jeanette Gustat, Suzanne M Bertisch, Susan Redline, Lydia A Bazzano

2019

Research indicates that sleep duration and quality are inter-related factors that contribute to obesity, but few studies have focused on sleep chronotype, representing an individual’s circadian proclivity, nor assessed these factors in racially diverse middle-aged samples.

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Development and Testing of a Brief Play Space Audit Tool

Journal of Physical Activity & Health

Jeanette Gustat, Christopher E. Anderson, Sandy J. Slater

2019

Spaces that promote play are important for the physical, social, and psychological growth of children. Public spaces, including playgrounds, provide an important venue for children to engage in play. A simple tool is needed to evaluate playground features and conditions.

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