Dr. Huberty’s Mindful Health Lab conducts research that improves the lives of people. We conduct primarily digital-based (online, smartphone-based) behavioral interventions using complementary approaches (i.e. physical activity, meditation, yoga) to improve physical and mental health of our participants.

We conduct research with moms who have experienced stillbirth, middle-aged women, blood cancer patients (bone marrow transplant and myeloproliferative neoplasm [MPN] patients), pregnant women, major league baseball players, and college students.

To learn more about ongoing studies, please visit the "Research Studies" page or visit the Mindful Health Lab Facebook Page.

"Mindful Health" refers to being "mindful" or "thoughtful" about our health and the strategies that help us live our most healthy lives. We use mostly digital-based (online, smartphone-based) complementary appraoches (i.e., physical activity, yoga, mediation) to improve health outcomes.

To learn more about our currently open and enrolling studies, please visit the "Research Studies" page. Here, we provide links to eligibility surveys for our open and enrolling studies. A member of our research team will be in touch with you regarding your eligibility for the study within which you completed an eligibility survey.

The outcomes of our research are primarily health-based, including physical, mental, and emotional health outcomes. However, working with digital-based interventions, we also assess the feasibility (i.e., ability to do so) of delivering interventions to people using these novel approaches.

We use industry and community partnerships to conduct our research because they allow for: (1) large reach into priority populations across education and income levels and (2) the pairing of behavioral health promotion with industry/technology-building platforms. Considering the volume of non-evidence-based digital and mobile health programs currently available to the public, this is a critical area of research that will advance what is known about improving health in a variety of populations and allow for the dissemination of evidence-based programs more rapidly and efficiently.

The majority of our interventions are conducted entirely remotely; however, we do occasionally deliver interventions in-person.

Participation is voluntary and you may decide to stop participating at any time and for any reason. All of our studies are approved by the Institutional Review Board at Arizona State University.

Randomized is used to describe a research study that hopes to compare two or more different treatments or procedures. Randomized means that you will be assigned to a study group by chance and not by choice.

Compensation varies from study to study. Types of compensation may include: incentives, program memberships, gift cards, cash, or eligibility for prize drawings. Many studies also include study materials such as exercise equiptment or fitness trackers.

There is no more than minimal risk associated with participation in most of our research studies as they typically involve physical activity or mindfulness-based interventions. All risks to participants can be found in the informed consent document for each study. Participation is voluntary and participants are free to withdraw at any time.

All studies require participants be 18 years or older. We do not typically conduct research involving children.

There is no cost to participate in a study.

Jennifer Huberty, Ph.D., is an Associate professor and Barrett Honor Faculty Advisor at Arizona State University in the College of Health solutions, Exercise and Wellness program. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the Mayo Clinic and the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson. Her research interests include physical activity adherence and lifestyle behavior change in women and children. She has extensive experience implementing interventions using the internet and mobile health to help improve mental and physical health in women and other populations. More specifically, she has conducted research using online yoga and smartphone-based meditation as a means to improve health during and after pregnancy and in blood cancer patients. Dr. Huberty is an Associate Editor for Translational Behavioral Medicine and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Huberty has published well over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is the co-author of the book entitled, Designing Effective Physical Activity Interventions. Dr. Huberty is the founder and director of Fit Minded, an innovative physical activity adherence program for adult women (www.befitminded.com). She has been funded over $3 million in grants from entities including National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF Foundation for her research Dr. Huberty was awarded the Varner Professorship for outstanding community research and service in 2007 and 2010 during her appointment at University of Nebraska Omaha. In 2017 she received the Alumni of the Year Award from the James Madison University Department of Kinesiology. Dr. Huberty is married with two sons, Greyson, Nolan, and has a dedicated yoga and meditation practice.