Brian E. Saelens, PhD

Brian E. Saelens, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (faculty-scientist track) at the University of Washington and Principal Investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He is the Associate Director of Research in the Division of General Pediatrics and a Principal Investigator in SCRI’s Center for Child Health Behavior and Development. Dr. Saelens is the Interim Research Director for the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s and co-leads the Integrating Special Populations program as part of the ITHS. Dr. Saelens is trained as a child clinical health psychologist. His research interests include obesity treatment and prevention, with a focus on family-based pediatric weight management interventions and the examination of policy, systems, and environmental influences on healthy eating and active living. He is interested in the application of equity frameworks to research and to policy, systems, and environment change implementation. Dr. Saelens’ bibliography is available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/brian.saelens.1/bibliography/public