Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Luther G Kalb, PhD '17, MHS '08, uses data to improve the well-being of populations.
Contact Info
Research Interests
mental health; well-being; measurement; epidemiology; learning health systems; developmental disabilities.
Experiences & Accomplishments
I am a public health researcher whose work seeks to improve the mental health of populations. Today, I am primarily interested in advancing the science of well-being from a population-based perspective. I share knowledge about this topic through my course “Public Health and the Good Life.” I also have a longstanding body of work focused on measure development and health service research. Most of this research concentrates on youth with a developmental disability, especially those with autism. I aim to combine these areas of interest and expertise by advancing research on the well-being of individuals with a developmental disability.
Honors & Awards
2020 Goldstein Award, Kennedy Krieger Institute
2018 NIMH CHIPS Fellow
2016 Morton Kramer Award for Excellence in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, JHBSPH
2015 Wendy Klag Scholar, JHBSPH
2015 NIMH New Investigators Workshop, Selected Invitee
2013 NIMH Children Services Training Pre-doctoral Fellow, JHBSPH
Select Publications
Representative Publications
Grosvenor, L., Errichetti, C., Holingue, C., Beasley, J., Kalb, L. (2023). Self-report Measurement of well-being in Autistic Adults: Psychometrics Properties of the PERMA Profiler. Autism in Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0049.
Kalb, L., DiBella, F., Jang, Y., Fueyo, M., Mahajan, R., & Vasa, R. (2022). Mental Health Crisis Screening in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2022.2119984.
Schwartz, A.E., Caoili, A., Beasley, J.B., Kramer, J.M., & Kalb, L.G. (2022). Clinical applications of the VIA Inventory of Strengths with Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, The Journal of Positive Psychology, doi: 10.1080/17439760.2022.2036797.
Kalb, L., Singh, V., Hong, J., Holingue, C., Ludwig, N., Pfeiffer, D., et al. (2022). Analysis of Race and Sex Bias in the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. JAMA Network Open. 2022;5(4). doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9498.
Kalb, L., Stapp, E., Ballard, E., Holingue, C., Keefer, A., & Riley, A. (2019). Trends in Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits among Youth and Young Adults in the US. Pediatrics. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-2192