Loneke Blackman Carr

Loneke T. Blackman Carr, Ph.D., R.D. is an Assistant Professor of Community and Public Health Nutrition at the University of Connecticut. Her expertise is in behavioral weight control interventions and obesity health disparities. She develops and evaluates interventions that leverage social relationships to improve weight loss and related diet and physical activity behavior change. A recent project includes a culturally-relevant, physical activity barrier reduction intervention for weight loss with black women.

Dr. Blackman Carr is affiliated with the UConn Health Disparities Institute, UConn InCHIP, UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University