Stephanie A. Hooker, PhD, MPH, MS
Research Investigator

"The activities people do every day have a tremendous influence on their health and well-being. My research focuses on helping people make lasting, healthy changes to their behavior to promote longer and healthier lives."

About

Dr. Stephanie Hooker is Research Investigator at HealthPartners Institute with a background in clinical health psychology and public health. She also holds an academic appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Dr. Hooker’s research interests are in behavioral and psychosocial influences on health and disease. The long-term goal of her research program is to develop interventions for health behavior change and well-being that can be delivered in healthcare and community settings. Specifically, her research has focused on understanding theory-based psychosocial determinants of health behaviors (e.g., physical activity, sleep). Then, her work uses these observational findings to develop behavioral interventions for health behavior change and behavioral health concerns to prevent and treat a variety of health conditions, including obesity, type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and opioi

Affiliation

positions

  • Research Investigator, Pregnancy and child health
  • Investigator, Behavioral health
  • Research Investigator, Community and population health 2019 -
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • 'Do they care?': a qualitative examination of patient perspectives on primary care clinician communication related to opioids in the USA
    BMJ open. 2025
  • Applying self-determination theory to internalized weight stigma and mental health correlates among young and middle adult women: a structural equation model
    Journal of Health Psychology. 2025
  • COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and uptake among firefighters: an application of the Health Belief Model
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2025
  • Clinical decision support to improve primary care obesity management in adults with diabetes: clinic-randomized study design
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2025
  • Psychotherapy engagement before and after a rapid transition to telehealth during COVID-19 for older adults with dementia
    Journal of Applied Gerontology. 2025
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  • Stephanie A. Hooker, PhD, MPH, MS
  • primary email

  • Stephanie.A.HookerShowalter@HealthPartners.com
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