Meet Our Team

Research interests: mental health, opportunity youth, school-based prevention programs, mindfulness and yoga, critical consciousness

Research interests: youth risk behaviors, school-based health programs, schools and health, health education, youth development, teen pregnancy prevention

Research interests: Sexual and reproductive health, substance use prevention, community engagement,  implementation science, qualitative methodologies

Research interests: opportunity youth, early adolescents, gender norms, monitoring and evaluation 

Research interests: HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, implementation science, dissemination, urban health

Research interests: Interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children; evaluation of policy and program implementation (focus: prevention of obesity and/or food insecurity); school health: strategies to reduce pediatric health inequities ; implementation science 

Research interests: child health; adolescent health; crime; violence; criminal legal system; justice-involved families; incarceration; policing; adverse childhood experiences; trauma-informed policy; mental health; social support; prevention science; life course; health equity

Research interests: Adolescent health; substance use; maternal and child health epidemiology; health equity; reproductive justice; social media and youth mental health

Research interests: emerging adults, substance use epidemiology, vulnerable populations

Research interests: Adolescent health; School health; Sexual and reproductive health; Menstrual health; Puberty transitions; Program evaluation; Implementation science; Community-engaged research; Youth-engaged research; Participatory methods 

Research interests: sexual and reproductive health, STIs, pregnancy prevention / contraception, health disparities, adolescent access to clinical services, school health services, impact of racism and other forms of discrimination on youth development