Co-Director Clincial Research and Community Outreach

Nutrition and Wellness Research Center
Ames, IA

gwelk@iastate.edu

Additional Biographical Information:

Dr. Welk served as the chair of the Story County Healthy Lifestyle taskforce and has established the ISU Campus Community Partnership for Health to continue to support community-based programming and to study strategies in community-based participatory research. In addition to his work with the Campus Community Partnership for Health through his position as the Director of the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center, Welk is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology. He teaches courses in worksite health promotion and community health promotion and has utilized service learning strategies in his courses as a way to integrate his research, teaching and service activities.