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Overview

Glorian Sorensen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a principal research focus within the Health Professions, specifically publishing extensively on General Health Professions, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology, and Speech and Hearing.

Their research addresses topics such as Workplace Health and Well-being, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Employment and Welfare Studies, Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Health Policy Implementation Science, School Health and Nursing Education, and Smoking Behavior and Cessation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sorensen include:

  • The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework (2020), published in Social Science & Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sorensen include:

  • Karina Nielsen
  • Susan E. Peters
  • Gregory R. Wagner
  • Eve M. Nagler
  • Erika L. Sabbath

The scholar's publications are regularly featured in journals such as:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • JCO Global Oncology
  • The Lancet Public Health

Regarding their contributions to books, Sorensen is an author of a forthcoming title published by Oxford University Press: Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Sustainable Interventions in Organizations, expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The local food environment and diet: A systematic review

    Caitlin E. Caspi;Glorian Sorensen;S.V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Implications of the results of community intervention trials.

    Glorian Sorensen;Karen Emmons;Mary Kay Hunt;Douglas Johnston

  • Reducing Social Disparities in Tobacco Use: A Social-Contextual Model for Reducing Tobacco Use Among Blue-Collar Workers

    Glorian Sorensen;Elizabeth Barbeau;Mary Kay Hunt;Karen Emmons

  • Model for incorporating social context in health behavior interventions: applications for cancer prevention for working-class, multiethnic populations.

    Glorian Sorensen;Karen Emmons;Mary Kay Hunt;Elizabeth Barbeau

  • Women, Work, and Health

    Glorian Sorensen;Lois M. Verbrugge

  • Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption through worksites and families in the treatwell 5-a-day study.

    Glorian Sorensen;Anne Stoddard;Karen Peterson;Nancy Cohen

  • A comprehensive worksite cancer prevention intervention: behavior change results from a randomized controlled trial (United States).

    Glorian Sorensen;Anne M Stoddard;Anthony D LaMontagne;Karen Emmons

  • The relationship between diet and perceived and objective access to supermarkets among low-income housing residents.

    Caitlin E. Caspi;Ichiro Kawachi;S.V. Subramanian;Gary Adamkiewicz

  • Using Theory to Understand the Multiple Determinants of Low Participation in Worksite Health Promotion Programs

    Laura A. Linnan;Glorian Sorensen;Graham A. Colditz;Neil Klar

  • Work site-based cancer prevention : Primary results from the working well trial

    Glorian Sorensen;Beti Thompson;Karen Glanz;Ziding Feng

  • 5 a day for better health: A new research initiative

    Stephen Havas;Jerianne Heimendinger;Kim Reynolds;Tom Baranowski

  • Mortality among unsheltered homeless adults in Boston, Massachusetts, 2000-2009.

    Jill S Roncarati;Travis P Baggett;James J O'Connell;Stephen W Hwang

  • Social Hazards on the Job: Workplace Abuse, Sexual Harassment, and Racial Discrimination—A Study of Black, Latino, and White Low-Income Women and Men Workers in the United States

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Cathy Hartman;Lisa M. Bates

  • The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework.

    Glorian Sorensen;Jack T. Dennerlein;Susan E. Peters;Erika L. Sabbath

  • The Influence of Social Context on Changes in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: Results of the Healthy Directions Studies

    Glorian Sorensen;Anne M. Stoddard;Tamara Dubowitz;Elizabeth M. Barbeau

  • 5 A Day for Better Health-Nine Community Research Projects To Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

    Stephen Havas;Jerianne Heimendinger;Dorothy Damron;Theresa A. Nicklas

  • The effects of a health promotion-health protection intervention on behavior change: the WellWorks Study.

    G Sorensen;A Stoddard;M K Hunt;J R Hebert

  • Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) at baseline

    Jacqueline M. Royce;Kitty Corbett;Glorian Sorensen;Judith K. Ockene

  • The effect of social desirability trait on self-reported dietary measures among multi-ethnic female health center employees.

    James R. Hébert;Karen E. Peterson;Thomas G. Hurley;Anne M. Stoddard

  • Promoting Behavior Change Among Working-Class, Multiethnic Workers: Results of the Healthy Directions—Small Business Study

    Glorian Sorensen;Elizabeth M. Barbeau;Anne M. Stoddard;Mary Kay Hunt

  • Worksite-based research and initiatives to increase fruit and vegetable consumption.

    Glorian Sorensen;Laura Linnan;Mary Kay Hunt

  • Attitudes toward smoking cessation among men and women

    Glorian Sorensen;Terry F. Pechacek

  • Health and Ways of Living: The Alameda County Study.

    Glorian Sorensen;Lisa F. Berkman;Lester Breslow

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen M. Emmons
Karen M. Emmons Harvard University
Elizabeth M. Barbeau
Elizabeth M. Barbeau Harvard University
Jennifer D. Allen
Jennifer D. Allen Tufts University
Prakash C. Gupta
Prakash C. Gupta Healis Sekhsaria Institute For Public Health
Anthony D. LaMontagne
Anthony D. LaMontagne Deakin University
Yi Li
Yi Li University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James R. Hébert
James R. Hébert University of South Carolina
Judith K. Ockene
Judith K. Ockene University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Karen E. Peterson
Karen E. Peterson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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