JourneyWell's expertise and thought leadership in employee health and wellness is backed by hundreds of peer-reviewed, published articles by members of our own research team.
JourneyWell research is supported by HealthPartners Research Foundation, which has been conducting Behavioral Intervention Research, Survey-Based Research, Clinical Trials, Medical Records Research and Basic Science Research for 20 years.
Here is just a sampling of our contributions to advancing our field, headed by doctors Nico Pronk and Thomas Kottke.
January 2010
Population Reach and Recruitment Bias in a Maintenance RCT in Physically Active Older Adults
Journal of Physical Activity and Health
December 2009
Building Health Promotion as a Component of a Corporate Culture of Health
Integration with Health Benefit Programs
The Role of Marketing and Communications in Workplace Health Promotion
Health Promotion at Large and Small Worksite Locations
HealthRadio, Sports Medicine & Fitness Show
November 2009
Physical Activity Promotion in Business and Industry: Evidence, Context, and Recommendations for a National Plan
Journal of Physical Activity and Health
September 2009
Preventing and Managing Cardiometabolic Risk: The Logic for Intervention
Molecular Diversity Preservation International
July 2009
Readiness of US Health Plans to Manage Cardiometabolic Risk
Preventing Chronic Disease
February 2009
Taking On the Social Determinants of Health
Minnesota Medicine
For more information on HealthPartners Research Foundation, visit www.hprf.org.
For a complete list of detailed publications, click here.
Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM, is the Health Science Officer for JourneyWell and a Senior Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation where he conducts research in the area of health behavior change and population health. Dr. Pronk is widely published in the scientific literature and is currently an Editorial Board member for several scientific journals. He has published extensively in the areas of exercise and physical activity, behavior change and the integration of health risk management strategies in population health initiatives. He is the founding president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP), a member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the Clinical Obesity Research Panel at the National Institute of Health, and a former member of the Defense Health Board (Armed Forces Epidemiological Board). Dr. Pronk is also the Senior Editor of the recently published comprehensive and contemporary industry text ACSM's Worksite Health Handbook, Second Edition.
Thomas Kottke, MD, is a Medical Director for evidence-based health, HealthPartners Senior Clinical Investigator, HealthPartners Research Foundation Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and a Cardiologist at Regions Hospital Heart Center. He is an internationally recognized expert in the delivery of preventive services and the prevention of chronic diseases. Dr. Kottke has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers, editorials and book chapters, many on the development of systems in clinical practice to assure the delivery of preventive and chronic disease services. Dr. Kottke was a member of the first United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and both AHCPR/AHRQ task forces for the development of smoking cessation intervention guidelines. Dr. Kottke has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization on the prevention and management of chronic diseases and is a member of the faculty of the World Health Organization Non-communicable Disease Prevention course.