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Sarah Pitman, PhD<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Sarah Pitman is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in the Department of Health, Human Performance & Recreation. She graduated with her PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) from UT Austin in August 2025. She also completed her M.S. in HBHE at UT and her B.A. in Psychology from Baylor University. Her research focuses on food insecurity, nutrition, media use, and marketing exposure among young adults, with interests in mental health, substance use, and community-level influences on health. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys spending time with her dog and two cats, drinking coffee, and staying active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rachel Davis<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Rachel is a third year undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin pursuing a B.A. in Psychology and an interdisciplinary certificate in Children & Society. Her research interests center around adolescent development. She is interested in risk factors for adolescent-age substance use, the role of intersectionality in adolescent wellness, and substance use prevention in adolescents. Her other interests include harm reduction and mental health. In her free time, Rachel enjoys reading, riding her OneWheel around Austin, and playing laser tag with her cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Kim<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Daniel is a third-year undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin pursing a B.S. in biochemistry. He is from Flower Mound, Texas. Daniel\u2019s broad research interest is psychiatric disorders and specific interest is substance use disorders. In his free time, Daniel enjoys karaoke, and playing soccer and basketball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Kreitzberg, PhD<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Daniel is a 4th year doctoral student in Health Behavior and Health Education. He holds a Master\u2019s of Science in the same degree (earned in 2016) and both a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Psychology and Art Practices from Portland State University where he graduated in 2012. Daniel has been with the lab since June 2014 and has primarily worked on point-of-sale tobacco marketing surveillance and tobacco regulation in general. In addition to his work at PRL, Daniel enjoys spending time with his son Elliott (born 2018), wife Amber, and dogs. He also enjoys art, philosophy, working out, and recently started training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lara Latimer, PhD<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Lara Latimer is an Associate Professor of Instruction <\/strong>in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Latimer graduated with a B.S. in Exercise & Sport Science from Texas Tech University. She earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Health Education from The University of Texas at Austin, and completed postdoctoral work at Cornell University. She lives in Austin and runs a private coaching business along with her teaching position at UT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Natalie Poulos, PhD<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Natalie is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center Tyler in the Department of Community and Rural Health. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education in August 2015. She has also completed her M.S. in Health Education, B.S. in Nutrition, and is a Registered Dietician. Her research focus is on family health and food insecurity in Texas. she also has interests in community nutrition, program evaluation, and implementation science. In her spare time, you can find Natalie in the garden, riding bikes with her family, or walking the dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phoebe Ruggles<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Phoebe Ruggles is a second year master\u2019s student in Health Behavior and Health Education. Before coming to UT, she completed her B.A. in Health and Societies with Minors in History and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests center in childhood obesity prevention, with particular focus on the influence of food and beverage marketing on youth, as well as the targeting of food and beverage marketing toward certain demographics (e.g. low-income). In addition to marketing, Phoebe has a growing interest in food and nutrition policy, including topics such as sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and food marketing regulation. In her free time, Phoebe enjoys birdwatching, gardening, and trying out new recipes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacob E. Thomas, PhD<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Jacob graduated from the Health Behavior and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin in 2025 and now works in the tech industry, where he blends the outward mask of Austin\u2019s startup culture with a deeper drive to introduce cultural critique and unconventional ideas into systems in need of reform. He enjoys watching the sunrise at the park each morning with his daughter and encourages other young fathers to embrace daily physical-activity\u2013centered rituals. Prior to coming to UT, he earned a B.S. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2014, and then an M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University in 2016 with a concentration in Research Methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nathan Wu<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nathan Wu graduated from UT Austin with a B.A. in Health & Society in May 2020, having been with the Prevention Research Lab since 2019, and is currently working in the lab as a research assistant. His research interests include advertisements for foods, beverages and alcohol. Nathan is currently working on a project that aims to investigate the relationship of outdoor advertisement characteristics with health outcomes in the advertisements\u2019 local areas in cities, in order to determine the relationship between ad content and overall health in ads\u2019 target demographics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Pitman, PhD Sarah Pitman is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in the Department of Health, Human Performance & Recreation. She graduated with her PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE) from UT Austin in August 2025. She also completed her M.S. in HBHE at UT and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/prl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}