Clinical Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Science. B.S. 1974, State
University of New York, Cortland; M.S. 1976 Ph.D., 1979, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Behavioral Science, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Dr. Allegrante, Ph.D. is a behavioral scientist and professor
of health education on the faculties of Teachers College and the Joseph
L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He has
been responsible for leading a broadly conceived program of graduate training
and research in health promotion and education there since 1979.
In addition to his training and extensive experience in health education,
during 1987-88 he was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the RAND/UCLA Center
for Health Policy Study in Santa Monica, California, where he completed
a program of advanced study in health policy and health services research.
Dr. Allegrante's research focuses on the design and evaluation of novel
behavioral and educational intervention programs for patient and community
populations. Since 1988, he has collaborated in a consortium-based
program of research and development with colleagues at the Hospital for
Special Surgery and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center that has focused
on the prevention of disability due to arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases.
He and his team of co-investigators were the first to demonstrate that
an intervention program combining supervised fitness walking and socially
supportive patient education could produce clinically meaningful improvements
in functioning without exacerbating symptoms of pain or increasing use
of medication in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. In addition,
Dr. Allegrante has led a team of co-investigators who have completed a
five-year, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact
and cost-benefits of a novel intervention program to reduce risk factors
for poor functional outcomes and institutionalization following hip fracture.
He is currently the co-principal investigator and lead behavioral scientist
on the Cornell Healthy Behaviors Trial, a four-year project supported by
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that is studying behavioral
economic theory as the basis for a motivational intervention to improve
health behavior and outcomes after angioplasty
Recent Publications
Allegrante, J.P. 1998 SOPHE
Presidential Address: SOPHE—At the intersection of education, policy,
and science and technology. Health Educ. Behav. 26: 457-464,
1999.
Allegrante, J.P. (with Sullivan,
T., Peterson, M.G.E., Kovar, P.A., MacKenzie, C.R.). One-year follow-up
of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who participated in a program
of supervised fitness walking and supportive patient education.
Arthritis
Care Res. 11: 228-233, 1998.
Allegrante, J.P. (with Roizen, M.F.)
Editorial: Can net-present value economic theory be used to explain
and change health-related behaviors? Health Educ. Res. 13:
i-iv, 1998.
Allegrante, J.P. (with Ruchlin,
H.S., Einstein, J., O'Doherty, J., Robbins, L., Peterson, M.G.E., MacKenzie,
C.R., Cornell, C.N.) A method for documenting the economic efficacy
of multiple-component interventions designed to enhance functional and
social status. Arthritis Care Res. 10:151-158, 1997.
Allegrante, J.P. (with Steckler,
A., Altman, D., Brown, R., Burdine, J.N., Goodman, R.M., and Jorgensen
C.). Health education intervention strategies: Recommendations for
future research. Health Educ. Q. 22: 307-328, 1995.
