Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Dr. Prochaska's research expertise centers on technology-mediated health behavior change interventions including targets of tobacco, physical activity, and dietary change. Working with Alaska Native and Latino communities, people with serious mental illness, alcohol and drug problems, or heart disease, and jobseekers and the unhoused, Dr. Prochaska’s research combines stage-tailored interventions with pharmacotherapy and utilizes interactive expert system interventions and social media (Twitter and Facebook). Her work includes 8 RCTs with over 1700 smokers. She has also developed, evaluated, and is disseminating interprofessional health curricula in cardiology and psychiatry as part of the Rx for Change curriculum suite with over 10,000 registrants and 200,000 file downloads (http:rxforchange.ucsf.edu).
