Rate My Professor Tony Randles

Tony Randles, Ph.D., MPH, is Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Indiana University South Bend, where he also serves as Faculty Athletics Representative. He earned his Ph.D. in Wellness from North Dakota State University in 2012, a Master of Public Health from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, and a B.A. in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation from Kansas Wesleyan University. Early in his career, Randles worked as a substitute physical education and health teacher for USD 501 in Topeka, Kansas. He owned and operated Elite Varsity Sports Performance, coaching high school and college athletes in sports agility, speed, and strength. Subsequently, he held the position of Physical Activity and Nutrition Program Manager at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, where he applied expertise in community nutrition to enhance access to healthy foods, improve nutrition environments, and provide technical assistance in physical activity assessments and promotion to local communities.

Randles' research interests encompass food security, the roles of nutritional environments in shaping community health, applied dietary interventions and chronic disease, and healthy classrooms. He teaches courses including Nutrition for Health (HPER-N220), Health and Wellness for Teachers (EDUC-M359), and Epidemiology and Biostatistics (HSC-H322). His key publications include "Dietary behaviors & perceived nutrition availability of small college student-athletes" (The Sport Journal, 2018); "Nutritional information and healthy eating promotions in restaurants according to restaurant type and neighborhood socioeconomic status" (International Journal of Health and Nutrition, 2015, with G. Liguori); "The effect of neighborhood socioeconomic status on food selection at neighborhood retail food stores" (International Journal of Health and Nutrition, 2015, with G. Liguori); "The Census of Social Institutions (CSI): A public health direct observation measure of local land use" (Journal of Urban Health, 2010, with K. Heinrich et al.); and "Healthful food procurement guide: A toolkit for worksite sodium reduction" (Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 2013, with P. Clayton and S. Hoytal). Additionally, he contributed to "The Effect of Habitual Smoking on Measured and Predicted VO2max" (Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2009, with R.R. et al.).