Sunderland Baker is a graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health. His research couples methods in diffusion weighted imaging measuring the brain’s white matter integrity with functional neuroimaging to understand the link between child maltreatment and substance use exploration. He uses advanced statistical tools to relate these brain changes to substance use in adolescence. These include:
- predictors of exploratory substance use and
- predictors of the transition from exploratory to problematic substance use.
Sunderland completed his B.A. in Public Health Science from Colorado College in 2022. He completed non-degree graduate work in Biostatistics at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine in 2022. He received his M.S. in Biobehavioral Health from Penn State in 2026.
About PAMT
The Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program, funded by a T32 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, trains predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the integration of prevention science and statistical methodology for the behavioral sciences.
Contact Information
skb5989@psu.edu
he/him/his
Sunderland Baker is a graduate student in the Department of Biobehavioral Health. His research couples methods in diffusion weighted imaging measuring the brain’s white matter integrity with functional neuroimaging to understand the link between child maltreatment and substance use exploration. He uses advanced statistical tools to relate these brain changes to substance use in adolescence. These include:
- predictors of exploratory substance use and
- predictors of the transition from exploratory to problematic substance use.
Sunderland completed his B.A. in Public Health Science from Colorado College in 2022. He completed non-degree graduate work in Biostatistics at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine in 2022. He received his M.S. in Biobehavioral Health from Penn State in 2026.
About PAMT
The Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program, funded by a T32 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, trains predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the integration of prevention science and statistical methodology for the behavioral sciences.
Contact Information
skb5989@psu.edu
he/him/his
