Office Hours:Monday: 10:45 AM - 1:45 PM
Wednesday: 10:45 AM - 1:45 PM
Friday: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Specializes in:
Health and Physical EducationDegrees:
2016 – PhD in Kinesiology, Exercise Nutrition, and Health Promotion; Baylor University
2012 – MEd in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; Delta State University
2009 – BA in Policy Studies, Psychology, and Spanish (triple major); Syracuse University
Bio:
Shana M. Walsh, PhD, is an associate professor of Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation at Peru State College. Her area of expertise is health promotion and specifically
the adoption of healthy behaviors. Her research interests focus on improving health
and quality of life through increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary
behavior, and the application, measurement, and evaluation of health behavior theories
to explain and predict health-related behaviors.
Before beginning a career in higher education, Shana was a public school teacher through
Teach For America (Mississippi Delta ’09 corps), and taught Spanish at the elementary
and secondary levels.
Shana is originally from New York City. Her hobbies include backpacking, hiking, running,
resistance training, paddle-boarding, canoeing, and traveling abroad as often as she
is able.
Selected publications: Umstattd Meyer M. R., Wu C., &
Walsh S. M. (2016). Theoretical antecedents of standing at work: An experience sampling approach
using the theory of planned behavior.
AIMS Public Health, 3(4): 682-701. Special Issue: Advances in sedentary behavior research and translation
(guest editors: Biddle S. J. H. & Bennie J.). doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2016.4.682
Umstattd Meyer, M.R., Perry, C.K., Sumrall, J., Patterson, M.,
Walsh, S.M., Clendennen, S.L., Hooker, S.P., Evenson, K.R., Goins, K.V., Heinrich, K., O’Hara
Tompkins, N., Eyler, A.A., Jones, S., Tabak, R., & Valko, C. Physical activity-related
policy and environmental strategies to prevent obesity in rural communities: A systematic
review of the literature, 2002-2013.
Preventing Chronic 13(1),
. doi:10.5888/pcd13.150406
Walsh, S.M., Umstattd Meyer, M.R., & Morgan, G.B. (2015). Why women sit: Determinants of leisure
sitting time in a female worksite population.
Women’s Health Issues, 25(6), 673-679. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2015.06.012
Umstattd Meyer, M.R.,
Walsh, S.M., Sharkey, J.R, Morgan, G.B, & Nalty, C.C. (2014). Physical and social environmental
characteristics of physical activity for Mexican-origin children: examining differences
between school year and summer perceptions.
BMC Public Health, 14(1), 958. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-958
