GracieLee M. Weaver

  • Research Associate
  • Public Health Education, UNCG

Dr. GracieLee Weaver is a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her PhD in Community Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her current work is focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion interventions in the workplace. She was the lead on a project to clean and analyze the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC) dataset to examine current trends in the quality of workplace wellness initiatives. In addition to managing and analyzing the Well Workplace Checklist data, GracieLee served on WELCOA’s advisory council to revise and update their quality benchmarks and Well Workplace Checklist. She is currently working on a project with Prevention Strategies to develop an opioid misuse prevention intervention for workers in industries with a high risk for injury and opioid dispensing. In addition to her workplace health promotion research, she is collaborating with the Institute to Promote Athlete Health & Wellness to examine the awareness of campus amnesty policies and the impact on bystander help seeking.

There are 6 included publications by GracieLee M. Weaver :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Association Between the Characteristics of Organizations and Their Profile of Performance Against Quality Benchmarks for Workplace Health Promotion 2020 934 Objective: This study explored subgroups of performance profiles measured by organizations’ Well Workplace Checklist (WWC) benchmark scores and examined company characteristics associated with performance subgroups. Methods: The sample included 3728 ...
An examination of the quality of Workplace Health Promotion initiatives among U.S. organizations that completed the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC) assessment 2018 263 Half of all U.S. adults have at least one chronic condition which requires constant self-management. Fortunately, Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) initiatives have the potential to impact more than 129 million full-time employees in the U.S. Although...
Performance Against WELCOA’s Worksite Health Promotion Benchmarks Across Years Among Selected US Organizations 2018 1029 Purpose: The purpose of this study was to quantify the performance of organizations’ worksite health promotion (WHP) activities against the benchmarking criteria included in the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC). Design: The Wellness Council of America ...
Return on investment of workplace wellness: Evidence from a long-term care company 2021 124 Background: Workplace wellness programs (WWPs) are increasingly promoted by businesses and governments as an important strategy to improve workers’ overall health and well-being and to reduce health care and other organizational costs. Few studies ha...
A scoping review of economic evaluations of workplace wellness programs 2021 730 Objective: Debates about the effectiveness of workplace wellness programs (WWPs) call for a review of the evidence for return on investment (ROI) of WWPs. We examined literature on the heterogeneity in methods used in the ROI of WWPs to show how this...
Tracking changes in U.S. organizations’ workplace health promotion initiatives: A longitudinal analysis of performance against quality benchmarks 2019 1037 Purpose: To examine changes in organizations’ workplace health promotion (WHP) initiatives over time associated with repeated self-assessment using the Well Workplace Checklist (WWC). Design: Well Workplace Checklist data include a convenience sample...