Pamela Payne

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Pamela Payne

Associate Professor, State Specialist

Summary

Pamela Payne is an associate professor with Extension and the University's College of Education & Human Development (COEHD). Her research focuses on the needs of the communities she serves. She has studied relationships, parenting, youth, community engagement and more. She loves to teach University courses on those topics, as well as on professional and life-span development, field experience, understanding military families, and more. Her projects focus on program areas important to both Extension and COEHD, such as 4-H Youth Development, Youth Horticulture Education, Marriage and Relationship Education, and Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence Programs.

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Education

BA University of Arizona 2001
MA Pepperdine University 2003
PhD University of Arizona 2010

Programs

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Hope for Family Resilience Program

The Hope for Family Resilience Program set out to support families through education, programs, and resources that provide a foundation for using both the heart and head for building the family on deeper knowledge, trust, reliability, and commitment.

News & Journal Articles, Fact Sheets, Reports...

Abstracts
The Expanding Scope of Nutrition Transition Research: Need for New Domains and Measures
Nutrition transition (NT) studies are yet to benefit from domains beyond the theoretical framework (TF). This gap is significant as health challenges have evolved with time. This paper aims to review the expanding scope of NT research.
 Angeline Jeyakumar, Deepa Agrawal, Siddhi Deshpande, Devishree Dunna, Swapnil Godbharle, Hema Kesa, Anjali Radkar and Athreyee Sinha 2024, Current Developments in Nutrition
Journals
Integrating traditional food properties with modern nutrition to develop complementary foods from local resources. An acceptability study in tribal regions of Jawhar among undernourished children.
This article is unique for the comprehensive methodology and study design to perform a community-based action/ evaluation project for the management of child undernutrition in the tribal regions of India
 Bhalare, S., Deshmukh, S., Godbharle, S., & Jeyakumar, A. 2025, Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 49(1), 23.
Impact of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions on diarrhoeal infections among children in the tribal regions of Palghar: a quasi-experimental study. Angeline Jeyakumar, Bibek Raj Giri, Swapnil Godbharl 2024, J Water Health 1 July 2024; 22 (7): 1125–1138
Effect of vitamin D supplementation on the immune response to respiratory tract infections and inflammatory conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis Angeline Jeyakumar, Pooja Bhalekar, Pranita Shambharkar 2024, Human Nutrition & Metabolism Volume 37, September 2024, 200272
A Systematic Scoping Review to Characterize the Challenges in US Food Banks (USFB) and Pantries
The purpose of this systematic scoping review was to characterize the challenges in the U.S. food banks and to identify areas for further research and intervention.
 Angeline Jeyakumar, Sandra Nyarko, Jamie Benedict and Holly Gatzke 2024, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Volume 56, Issue 8, Supplement 1, August 2024, Page S24
Comparison of household double burden of malnutrition among mother-child dyads in different settings in Maharashtra Angeline Jeyakumar, Swapnil Godbharle, Hema Kesa, Pranita Shambharkar, Pooja Bhalekar, Shraddha Chalwadi & Roopan George 2024, Cities & Health Volume 8, 2024 - Issue 6
Auditing causality of the multiple-burden of malnutrition in India and South Africa: a critical need for directions. Jeyakumar A, Kesa H, Godbharle S. 2023, Public Health Nutrition. 2023;26(12):3038-3040