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Leadership Team
- Max Crowley
PRC Director
- Carol Masullo
Assistant Director for Operations
- Sara Brennen
Communications Director
- Alicia Fetzer
Financial Coordinator
Center Faculty
- Yaryna Andrushko
Psychologist and Researcher
- Rose Baker
Assistant Research Professor
- Sarah Chilenski
Research Professor, Health and Human Development
- Blake A. Colaianne
Assistant Research Professor
- Mark E. Feinberg
Research Professor
- Jochebed Gayles
Director, Lab for Equitable Prevention & Implementation in Diverse Contexts
- Lindsey Gedaly
Researcher
- Michelle Hostetler
Assistant Research Professor
- Damon Jones
Research Professor, Health and Human Development
- Elizabeth Long
Assistant Research Professor, Health and Human Development
- Kimberly Mallett
Research Professor, Health and Human Development
- Samantha Murray-Perdue
Researcher
- Robert W. Roeser
Bennett Pierce Chair in Caring and Compassion, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Taylor Bishop Scott
Director, Research Translation Platform
- Meg Small
Director for Social Impact
- Rob Turrisi
Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Prevention Research
- Janet Welsh
Research Professor
Staff
- Sarah Ackerman
Senior Research Coordinator & Researcher
- Sophia Amarillo
Meeting and Training Support Assistant
- Amanda Applegate
Technical Communications Specialist
- Alise Barr
PAYS Support & Development Specialist, EPIS
- Elaine Berrena
Prevention Educator
- Geneen Burris
Implementation Specialist
- Kristin Camplese
Instructional Designer
- Lee Carpenter
Pre-Award Coordinator/Proposal Development
- Casey Anne Cunningham
Policy Associate, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Jessica DeFelice
Human Research Technologist
- Melissa Fausey
PA Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Systems Coordinator
- Lisa Fetzer
SPEPâ„¢ Implementation Specialist
- Lisa Freese
SPEPâ„¢ Implementation Specialist
- Carol Gaddis
Data Manager, EPIS
- Megan Galinksy
Data Management Specialist
- Kris Glunt
SPEPâ„¢ Project Manager
- Maria Godfrey
Education Program Coordinator
- Angie Halaja-Henriques
Research Project Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Sarah Hamel
Research Project Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Jeffery Hogan
Systems Change Specialist
- Laura Huber
Policy Associate
- Jordan Joyce
Program Manager, Prevention Learning Portal
- Phyllis Law
Senior Systems Change Specialist
- Aaron Luneke
Research Data Analyst, EPIS
- Mary McCauley
Director of Administration and Compliance, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Mel Miles
Financial Assistant
- Shannon M. O'Lone
SPEPâ„¢ Implementation Specialist, Level 3 SPEPâ„¢ Master Trainer
- Christa Park
SPEPâ„¢ Implementation Specialist
- Mary Lisa Penilla
Research Project Manager
- Nicole (Wells) Platz
Implementation Specialist
- Luann Rhodes
Administrative Support Assistant
- Heather Roberts
Implementation Specialist
- Bethany Shaw
Assistant Director of Data Accelerator Compliance
- Gillian Sommerville
Research Project Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Roger Spaw
Evidence-based Practices Project Manager
- Victoria Stamadianou
Project Manager, Research Translation Platform
- Cheryl Stamm
Administrative Support Coordinator
- Rachel Storace
Research Project Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Christy Tomascik
Education Program Specialist
- Melissa Tomascik
Youth and Family Prevention Specialist
- Emily Warthman
Associate Director of Policy Operations, Research Translation Platform
- Alex Winters
Systems Design Specialist
- Jessica Wolfe Connor
Director of Research Operations
- Jonathan Wright
Data Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
- Yanping Zhao
Research Project Manager, Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
Center Affiliates
- Jennifer P. Agans
Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Jennifer M. Barton
Assistant Research Professor, Center for Childhood Obesity Research
- Karen L. Bierman
Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies
- Mark Brennan
UNESCO Chair and Professor
- Patricia Broderick
Research Associate
- Meg Bruening
Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Department Head
- Linda Caldwell
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, RPTM
- Daryl Cameron
Associate Professor of Psychology
- Anne-Marie Chang
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health and Nursing
- Bo Cleveland
Professor, HDFS
- Christian M. Connell
Director, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
- Molly Countermine
Teaching Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Michael W. Donovan
Director of International Partnerships
- Sebrina L. Doyle Fosco
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Kamila Dvorakova
PRC Adjunct Faculty
- Rina D. Eiden
Professor of Psychology
- Cara Exten
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
- Rick Fiene
Research Psychologist
- Diana Fishbein
Senior Part-Time Research Faculty, Human Development and Family Studies
- Zachary Fisher
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Greg Fosco
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Lori Francis
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
- Jennifer Frank
Associate Professor, Education
- Steffany Fredman
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Sukhdeep Gill
Professor, HDFS, Penn State York
- Maithreyi Gopalan
Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy
- Mark T. Greenberg
PRC Founding Director
- Paul Griffin
Professor of Engineering
- Cristin Hall
Assistant Professor, Education
- Michael L. Hecht
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Yoon Sun Hur
Assistant Research Professor
- Catherine Jantzer
CARE Project Manager
- Abenaa Jones
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Patricia Koch
Emeritus Professor, BBH
- Linda LaSalle
Director of Health Promotion and Wellness
- Stephanie Lanza
Professor, Biobehavioral Health
- Heidemarie Laurent
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Solim Lee
Assistant Professor of Nursing
- David Lee
Professor, Education
- Erika Lunkenheimer
Associate Director of Education, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
- Jennifer Maggs
Professor, HDFS
- Claudia Mincemoyer
Professor Emerita of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Dana Mitra
Professor, Education Policy Studies
- Hee Man Park
Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management
- Daniel F. Perkins
Principal Scientist and Founder, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
- Harrison Pinckney
Assistant Professor of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Management
- Emma Jane Rose
Director, Research on Adversity and Risk Lab
- Michael Russell
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
- Nicole C. Ryerson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Jessica Saalfield
Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Dennis P. Scanlon
Director, Center for Health Care and Policy Research
- Barrett Scroggs
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State Mont Alto
- Chad Shenk
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Pediatrics
- Edward Smith
Past PRC Director; Research Professor (Retired)
- Shedra Amy Snipes
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
- Jeremy Staff
Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Demography
- Ashley Stauffer
Analyst, Office of Research Information Systems & Director, ResearchPros
- Glenn Sterner III
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State Abington
- Douglas Teti
Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Samantha L. Tornello
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Martha Wadsworth
Professor, Psychology
- Christina L. Wissinger
Associate Librarian for the Health Sciences
- Steven Xing
Assistant Research Professor
Trainees
- Avery Chahl
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Alexander Chapman
PAMT Postdoctoral Fellow
- Lan Chen
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- C. Andrew Conway
Postdoctoral Scholar
- Gabriel Cruz RodrÃguez
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Walter Dyer
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Shixin Fang
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Morgan Mannweiler
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Rachel Marcus
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Mary Mbaba
PAMT Postdoctoral Fellow
- Sara Miller
PAMT Postdoctoral Fellow
- Patrick O'Neill
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Ivan Jacob Agaloos Pesigan
PAMT Postdoctoral Fellow
- Danielle Rice
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow
- Katelin Trautmann
Postdoctoral Scholar
- Danny Wang
PAMT Predoctoral Fellow