Faculty and Mentors
We are an interdisciplinary community of expert prevention scientists and methodologists dedicated to training the next generation.
Faculty and Mentors
We are an interdisciplinary community of expert prevention scientists and methodologists dedicated to training the next generation.
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Jennifer Maggs, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Stephanie Lanza, Professor of Biobehavioral Health, direct the grant as MPIs. Our leadership team includes faculty from Psychology, Sociology/Criminology, and other disciplines.
Program Directors & Leadership Team
Program Directors & Leadership Team
Potential Mentors
Potential Mentors
Faculty affiliated with PAMT include researchers with Ph.D.s in psychology, biobehavioral health, human development and family studies, statistics, kinesiology, sociology, criminology, education, family and child ecology, information sciences and technology, and engineering, among other disciplines.
David Almeida (HDFS)
Daily diary studies; Stress and health; Adult development
Emily Ansell (BBH)
Cannabis use; Ecological momentary assessment; Young adults
Sunday Azagba (Nursing)
Tobacco control policy; Alcohol, marijuana, and other substance use; Adolescent/youth risk behaviors; Health services research
Benjamin Bayly (Agriculture)
Evidence-based programs; Program implementation and evaluation; Latent variable models
Karen Bierman (PSY)
School-based prevention; Community-based prevention; Social-emotional learning; Child development
Steven Branstetter (BBH)
Nicotine addiction; Smoking behaviors; Individual and contextual influences on tobacco use in adults and adolescents
Kristina Brant (Agriculture)
Child welfare; Criminal justice; Poverty and inequality; Qualitative methods; Rural community development; Substance use
Timothy Brick (HDFS)
Analysis of intensive longitudinal data; Dynamic modeling; Machine learning; Wearable sensors
Sarah Brothers (SOC/CRIM)
Community-based participatory research; Substance use; Gender, inequality and marginality; Qualitative methods; Ethnography
Orfeu Buxton (BBH)
Sleep health; Neuroscience; Health behaviors in daily life; Wearable sensors
Anne-Marie Chang (BBH/Nursing)
Sleep physiology and behavior; Circadian rhythms; Cardio-metabolic health; Cognitive function; Genomics
Sarah Chilenski (PRC)
Community, school, and university collaborations for youth prevention programming
Sy-Miin Chow (HDFS)
Analysis of intensive longitudinal data; Dynamic modeling; Nonlinear dynamical systems models
Eric Claus (BBH)
Neural and cognitive mechanisms that support behavior change in substance use disorders
H. Harrington “Bo” Cleveland (HDFS)
Gene by environment interaction; Addiction recovery; Ecological momentary assessment
Daniel Max Crowley (HDFS)
Economic analysis of interventions; Administrative data; Policy research
Deborah Ehrenthal (BBH)
Social and healthcare factors that shape the health of women and children over the life course
Rina Eiden (PSY)
Intergenerational effects of substance use; Parent-based intervention; Early childhood prevention trials
Cara Exten (Nursing)
Sexual and gender minority health
Mark Feinberg (PRC)
Prevention programming; Family systems; Family Foundations; PROSPER
Zachary Fisher (HDFS)
Methods development for complex time-dependent processes; Joint modeling of behavioral and biological data
Gregory Fosco (HDFS)
Family systems; Adolescent development; Risk and protective factors; Daily diary studies; PROSPER
Lori Francis (BBH)
Sociocultural risk factors; Family-based prevention; Child health
Jennifer Frank (PSY)
Evaluating school-based prevention practices; Social ecology of risk
Steffany Fredman (HDFS)
Individual well-being within dyads; Multiple time scales; Couple and family adaptation to stress
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp (HDFS)
Neuroscience; Brain mechanisms; School-based prevention; Family-based prevention; Family Life Project
Thomas Gould (BBH)
Neurobiology of drug-seeking behavior; Effects of alcohol and nicotine; Adolescence
Paul Griffin (ENG)
Health systems engineering; Health analytics; Healthcare delivery systems; Community-based intervention; Public health interventions
Brandy Henry (Education)
Health of criminalized populations; Trauma; Mental health; Substance use
Louisa Holmes (Geography)
Demography; Geography; Health disparities; Built and natural environments; Policy
Vasant Honavar (IST)
Machine learning; Causal inference; Data science; Health informatics
Abenaa Jones (HDFS)
Structural interventions to reduce drug use; Vulnerable populations; Criminal-justice involved females; Substance use, violence, and HIV/AIDS
Damon Jones (PRC)
Economic analysis of interventions; Program evaluation; Multilevel modeling
Helen Kamens (BBH)
Gene by environment interaction; Effects of alcohol, nicotine, opioids; Adolescence
Derek Kreager (SOC/CRIM)
Adolescent health risk behavior; Prisoner networks; Community reentry
Stephanie Lanza (BBH)
Analysis of intensive longitudinal data; Latent class analysis; Time-varying effect modeling; Young adult substance use; Daily diary studies
Nina Lauharatanahirun (BBH)
Risky decision making; Neuroscience
Runze Li (STAT)
Variable selection for high-dimensional data; Longitudinal data; Nonparametric and semiparametric regression; Genetics and bioinformatics
Jennifer Maggs (HDFS)
Substance use development; Daily diary studies; Young adult development; Midlife; Longitudinal cohort studies
Kimberly Mallett (PRC)
Substance use interventions; Parent-based intervention; Young adult substance use; Alcohol and cannabis co-use
Jenae Neiderhiser (PSY)
Gene by environment interaction; Early substance use; Interpersonal relationships; Prenatal risk factors; Twin study designs
Holly Nguyen (SOC)
Rewards from criminal and non-criminal behavior; Consequences of group crime; Illicit drug markets
Jennie Noll (HDFS)
Adverse childhood events; Interventions on effects of child maltreatment
Zita Oravecz (HDFS)
Analysis of intensive longitudinal data; Multilevel Bayesian process models; Modeling of change mechanisms
Robert Roeser (HDFS)
Caring and compassion; Mindfulness-based interventions; Human flourishing; Adolescent development
Michael Russell (BBH)
Stress, affect, and health; ambulatory assessment
Joel Segel (HPA)
Cost analysis; Health policy; Prescription drugs; Health services; Substance use disorder
Chad Shenk (HDFS)
Early life adversity; Causal estimation; Mechanisms of psychiatric disorders following pediatric trauma; Multilevel analysis
Martin Sliwinski (HDFS)
Stress, aging, and health; Daily diary studies; Measurement in mHealth; Ambulatory assessment
Meg Small (PRC)
Young adult substance use; Design thinking in prevention research
Shedra “Amy” Snipes (BBH)
Culture and health; Vulnerable populations; Diversity
Jeremy Staff (SOC/CRIM)
Epidemiologic methods; Population science; Long-term risks of adolescent substance use
Douglas Teti (HDFS)
Sleep health; Family systems
Robert Turrisi (BBH/PRC)
Young adult alcohol use; Brief interventions for young adults; College student alcohol use; Parent-based intervention
David Vandenbergh (BBH)
Genetic moderation of intervention effects; Behavioral Neuroscience; Neurobiology
Ashton Verdery (SOC/CRIM)
Social network analysis; Respondent-driven sampling; Epidemiology of opioid use crisis; Migrant population
Martha Wadsworth (PSY)
Child poverty-related stress; Positive youth outcomes; Family-based intervention
Janet Welsh (PRC)
Dissemination and implementation; Cultural adaptation; Community-based intervention; PROSPER; Communities That Care
Stephen Wilson (PSY)
Neurological studies of substance use motivation; Cigarette use and vaping; Integrating fMRI and ambulatory assessments
Dawn Witherspoon (PSY)
Neighborhood, school, and family context; Adolescence; Culture; Race/ethnicity
Lingzhou Xue (STAT)
High-dimensional statistics, Machine learning, Optimization, Econometrics
Aleksandra Zgierska (College of Medicine)
Addiction, Chronic pain, Health services, Quality improvement, Stakeholder engagement, Community-based implementation
BBH: Biobehavioral Health
HDFS: Human Development & Family Studies
HPA: Health Policy & Administration
IST: College of Information Sciences & Technology
Kinesology: Department of Kinesiology
Nursing: College of Nursing
PSY: Department of Psychology
PRC: Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
SOC/CRIM: Department of Sociology & Criminology
STAT: Department of Statistics
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For more information about PAMT, contact Carol Masullo, Administrative Support Coordinator for the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center.
Email: cam83@psu.edu