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  • Parent Resources
  • Research Projects
    • Internet Based Consultation and Networking for Youth Mental Health Providers (i-CAN)
    • Intervention for Children with Behavioral and Emotional Concerns (FAST)
    • Stepped Transition to Employment and Postsecondary Education Success (STEPS)
    • Facial Emotion Awareness in Children
    • Teen Sleep Health Study
    • Healthy Relationships on the Autism Spectrum (HEARTS)
    • Exploring Relationships between Trauma, Locus of Control Orientation, and Aggression among African American Adolescents
    • Coping Power intervention for emotions and behavior in school
  • Building the Bridge
    • Racial Diversity Resources
    • Outreach and Training
    • Past Meetings
  • Meet the Team
    • Core Faculty
    • Affiliated Faculty
    • Post-Docs and Graduate Students
    • Center Staff
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Center affiliated faculty

Congrats to our 2022 CYDI Senior Affiliates!

The Center for Youth Development and Intervention (CYDI) at UA is pleased to announce the inaugural class of CYDI Senior Affiliates. These scholars were selected based on their commitment to promoting the mental health and well-being of youth and families in the state of Alabama and beyond. They have gone above and beyond to support the mission of the CYDI – to advance cutting edge translational clinical science in order to improve the mental and physical well-being of all youth. Please join us in celebrating the work of these individuals!
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Dr. Mengya Xia

​Dr. Mengya Xia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama in the Developmental Science area. Substantively, her research focuses on adolescent positive development in complex family dynamics and other ecological contexts. Methodologically, she is interested in advanced statistics from person-centered approaches (e.g., mixture modeling) and dynamic processes (e.g., time-varying effect modeling). She works closely with CYDI on grant submission and project collaboration. She also engages with CYDI work that facilitates community engagement (e.g., providing workshop to parents) and is committed to research in the area of youth mental health and development.
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Dr. Gregory J. Benner

​Dr. Gregory J. Benner is the Helen and Pat O’Sullivan Professor in the College of Education at the University of Alabama. He has a knack for grassroots collective impact—getting whole communities including families, child welfare, mental health, and schools on the same page to meet needs of the whole child. In February 2018, he received the Presidents’ Award from the Northwest Positive Behavioral Supports Network for his leadership of school improvement. He currently serves as Principal Investigator on a Department of Education, Supporting Effective Educator Development funded project to develop the Social and Emotional Learning Study Groups (SELSG+) professional learning innovation. He is co-founder of the Tacoma Whole Child Initiative, a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable school and community transformation.
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Dr. Chuong Bui

​Dr. Chuong Bui is a Research Statistician at the Alabama Life Research Institute (ALRI). In a typical workday, he spends about half his time talk to his computer, with SAS being his primary interpreter. For the last 3 years, Dr. Bui has collaborated with several researchers at CYDI. He assists with proposal development and data analysis, and Dr. Bui (thankfully) has full intention to keep this collaboration lasting for several years to come. Dr. Bui as expertise in mixed-effect models, structural equation modeling, survival analysis, latent class/profile analysis, grouped-based trajectory, and growth mixture modeling.
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Dr. Kristina L. McDonald

​Dr. Kristina L. McDonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Dr. McDonald is an expert on adolescent adjustment, friendships, peer relationships, and revenge-responding. She has expertise in a broad range of methods, including peer nominations, longitudinal designs, survey and questionnaire development, and cross-cultural research. As PI or co-Investigator on several foundation, NIH, and university-funded grants, she has examined how peer and family relationships, social cognitions, social motivations, and self-regulatory processes influence child and adolescent development.

Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program

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Nancy Anderson, J.D.
Alabama Disabilities Advocacy ​​

  • Research Interests/Expertise:  Coordination of individual case and systems-change work; Disability rights; Representation of youth; Mental health access; Special education; Juvenile justice; Medicaid    

College of Nursing

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Michael Callihan, Ph.D.
Capstone College of Nursing
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​Mercy N. Mumba, PhD, RN, CMSRN
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Capstone College of Nursing

  • Research Interests/Expertise: substance abuse among nurses and their psychosocial wellbeing, self-efficacy and functional status in older adults and how these relate to healthy aging and wellness
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Robin Bartlett, PhD

Robin Bartlett, Ph.D.
Capstone College of Nursing

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Risk behaviors in adolescents, developmental issues, risk and protective factors associated with behavior trajectories and health outcomes, parenting, health disparities, interdisciplinary research, intervention research, health systems research, analysis of existing data, community-based research
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Jessica Johnson, Ph.D.
Capstone College of Nursing

  • Clinical Interests/Expertise: Growth and Development Throughout the Lifespan and Family-Centered Care; Obstetrics (Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, High-Risk Pregnancies, Women's Care, and Newborn Nursery); Pediatric Experiences (Neurology, Cardiac, and Endocrine)
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Sara Kaylor, Ed.D.
Capstone College of Nursing

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Assessment of Leadership and Learning Needs/Styles; Innovative Teaching Strategies for Millennial Generation Nursing Students; Health Assessment; Fundamentals of Nursing; Pharmacology for Nursing Practice
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Michele Montgomery, Ph.D.
Capstone College of Nursing

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Health Disparities in Rural and Underserved Populations; Childhood Obesity; Diabetes; Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Innovative Teaching Strategies
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Haley Townsend, MSN, RN, FNP-BC 
Capstone College of Nursing

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Sexual and Reproductive Health Education; Risk Taking Behaviors; STI Prevention,; HPV Vaccination
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College of Arts and Sciences

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Joan Barth, Ph.D.
Institute for Social Sciences Research

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Social-Emotional Development; Gender Differences in Science and Math Education Experiences; Adolescent Risk Behaviors; Children's Decision Making Skills; Education Contexts; Neurocognitive Development in Young Children
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Kim Caldwell, Ph.D.
Department of Biology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Gene Function; Diseases of the Nervous System; Gene and Drug Discovery to Advance Therapeutic Development
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Matthew Cribbet, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Early Life Adversity; Cardiovascular Disease Risk; Close Relationships; Health;Cardiovascular Psychophysiology; Sleep Assessment (Self-Report, Behavior, EEG); Stress Assessment; Multilevel Modeling/Dyadic Data Analysis; Cellular Aging​
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Jenny Cundiff, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Socioeconomic Status; Stress; Health; Social Relationships; Cardiovascular Risk; Interpersonal Behavior; Dominance;Health Disparities; Latent Mixture Modeling; Meta-Analysis
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Jason DeCaro, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Culture; Child Social Ecology; Psychophysiology; Stress and Health; Multi-Generational Approaches; Qualitative Data Analysis; MLM; Adrenocortical Assessment; Autonomic Assessment; Daily Experience Tracking (e.g., ESM, Diaries, Actigraphy)
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Ryan Earley, Ph.D.
Department of Biology

  • ResearchInterests/Expertise: Animal Behavior; Behavioral Variation Among Individuals of a Population; Neurobiology; Gene Expression; Metabolism; Hormones
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Ross Grimes, Ph.D.
Brewer-Porch Children's Center

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Child Mental health; Residential treatment; Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
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Matthew Jarrett, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

Rajesh K. Kana, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/ Expertise: ADHD; Attention; Anxiety; Neuropsychology; Intervention; Children; Child Psychopathology; Child Intervention; Child Assessment
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  • Research Interests/ Expertise:  Autism, Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Social Cognition, Language processing
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Bronwen Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice

  • Research Interests/Expertise: HIV Stigma; Social Determinants of Mortgage Foreclosure
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Evie Malaia, Ph.D.
Department of Communicative Disorders

  • Research Interests/Expertise: ASD; ADHD; Visual Cognition; Sensory Perception; Complex Systems Approach to Brain Disorders; Neural Response to Interventions; Network Modeling; Complex Systems Modeling; EEG (Frequency-Domain, Microstate, and Network Analyses); fMRI (Includig Resting State and Network Analysis); Machine Learning; Language (Including Sign Language and Bilingualism)
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Kristina McDonald, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Peer Relationships; Aggression; Social Cognition; Emotion Regulation; Latent Class Models
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Kim Olin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: ​Grant Specialist
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Jeff Parker, Ph.D.
Institute for Social Sciences Research

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Bullying; Health and Wellness; Children's Experiences and Adjustments with Friends and Other Peers; Bullying Reduction 
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Laura Reed, Ph.D.
Department of Biology

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Quantitative Genetics; Population Genetics; Drosophila Model for Metabolic Syndrome; Evolutionary Genetics of Speciation
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Lesley Reid, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Neighborhood Effects; Criminal Victimization; Fear of Crime; Immigration and Crime; Analytical Expertise in Multilevel Modeling; Longitudinal Analyses; Hard to Sample Populations; Managing Longitudinal Data Collection
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Karen Salekin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty; Assessment of Intellectual Disability in Atkins Cases; Forensic Assessment with Offenders with Intellectual Disability; Mitigation in Death Penalty Cases; Perceptions of Individuals with Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System
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Randy Salekin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Psychopathy; Callous Unemotional Traits; Treatment of Psychopathy; Treatment of Interpersonal Callousness
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Ted Tomeny, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: ASD; Risk and Protective Factors for Family Members of Children with ASD; Developmental Disabilities; Outreach and Service Delivery to Low-Resource Families
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Alexa Tullett, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Objectivity; Belief Systems and Motivated Cognition; Research Practices and Meta-Science
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Joshua Wakeham, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Juvenile Justice; Organizational Behavior; Knowledge and Cognitions; Morality and Justice; Ethnography
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Katie E. Garrison, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
  • Research Interests/Expertise: self-control; emotion regulation; attention; mental effort and fatigue; motivation; electrophysiology (EEG/ERPs)​
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College of Education

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Lucy Barnard-Brak, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Measurement and assessment issues for individuals with ASD; educational experiences and outcomes of individuals with disabilities; item response theory models; comparison of ROC curves to data from special populations
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Greg Benner, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Intervention; Prevention; Academic success of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD)
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Daniel Cohen, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

  • Research Interests/Expertise: School Mental Health; Educational Equity; Behavioral Assessment;School Discipline; School Segregation; Racial Disparities in Education; Suicide Prevention; Social/Emotional Screening​​​​
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Teresa Grenawalt, Ph.D., CRC
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Disabilities; Vocational Rehabilitation; Wellbeing; Career Development; Behavioral Activation​
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Rick Houser, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Low Current Brain Stimulation to increase Statistical Calculations; Use of Low Current Brain Stimulation to Study the Effect of Ethical Decision Making
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Kristine Jolivette, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Applied Behavioral Analysis; Youth Behavior; Special Education
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Joni M. Lakin, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Educational Measurement; Individual Differences; Cognitive Abilities and Intelligence; Advanced Academics; Gifted Education; Student Motivation for Learning; Career Identity Formation 
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Sara McDaniel, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Behavior; At-Risk; Classroom Management; Discipline; PBIS; Alternative Settings; Implementation Science; Single Case Design; Targeted Interventions
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Jewoong Moon, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, & Technology Studies

  •  Research Interests/Expertise: Digital game-based learning; Inclusive and immersive e-learning design;  Multimodal learning analytics; Adaptive learning system design; Computer science & Artificial intelligence education (computational thinking)
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Laura Morett, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Educational Neuroscience; Gesture Studies; Learning Language and Processing; Discourse Analysis; Eyetracking; Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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June Preast, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support; Response to Intervention; Systems-Level Consultation; Teacher Teams and Data-Based Decision Making
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Sara Sanders, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

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Michael L. Sulkowksi,
​Ph.D., NCSP

Educational Studies in Psychology,
Research Methodology, and Counseling 
  • Research Interests/Expertise: School safety, school mental health, cognitive-behavioral therapy. 
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Stephen Thoma, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Moral Psychology; Creation and Validation of Psychometrics in Social/Moral Domain
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Laci Watkins, Ph.D.
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities

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  • Research Interests/Expertise: ​Autism Spectrum Disorder; Inclusive Education; Social Motivation; Social Communication Interventions; Collateral Effects of Interventions; Peer Interaction; Evidence-Based Practices; Social Communication Interventions; Peer-Mediated Interventions; Single Case Design Research; Meta-Analysis of Single Case Design Research​​​​​​
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Robin-McWilliam, Ph.D. 
Department of Special Education and Multiple Abilities
  • Research Interests/Expertise: early intervention (birth to age 6), specifically models of service delivery, working with families, and child engagement
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Amy Hutchison, Ph.D. 
Department of Curriculum and Instruction​

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Use of digital technologies to support students with disabilities; Computing science, coding, and media literacy for special populations; Digital innovations to support reading and writing; Teacher professional development
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College of Engineering

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Jeff Gray, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science

• Research Interests/Expertise: Computer Science Education; College Preparation in STEM Fields; Robotics; Software Modeling; Domain Specific Languages; Mobile Computing
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Zhe Jiang, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Data Mining and Machine Learning; Particularly Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining; Spatial Big Data; Interdisciplinary Applications in Earth Science; Transportation; Public Safety
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Steven Jones, Ph.D.
Center for Advanced Public Safety

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Traffic Safety; Risky Driving; Drunk Driving; Aggressive Driving;Transportation Planning; Transportation Engineering; International Development
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College of Human Environmental Sciences

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Deborah Casper, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Adolescent and Emerging Adult Peer Relationships; Peer Group Play; Aggression and Bullying
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Linda Knol, Ph.D.
Department of Human Nutrition and Hospitality Management

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Preschool Children; Obesity; Mindful Eating; Weight Loss Interventions; Dietary Intake
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Robert Laird, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Parenting; Adolescence; Parent-Child Relationships; Delinquency; Monitoring; Peer Relations; Longitudinal Methods; SEM; Discrepancies; Difference Scores
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Jason Scofield, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Children's Language Development; Social Learning; Moral Cognition
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Stuart Usdan, Ph.D.
Department of Health Science

  • Research Interests/Expertise:Substance Abuse Prevention; Alcohol Assessment and Measurement; Internet-Based Interventions
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Bridget Weymouth, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Adolescent Development; Social Anxiety; Substance Use; Conflict in Families; Parent-Adolescent Relationships; Physiological Stress Reactivity;Parent-Adolescent Conflict; Interparental Conflict; Structural Equation Modeling; Latent Profile/Class Analyses; Meta-Analysis​
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Tricia Witte, Ph.D.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

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Jamie M. Gajos, Ph.D
​Department of Human Development and Family Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Interpersonal Violence; Dating Violence; Sexual Assault; Trauma; Substance Use; Prevention; Treatment
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  • Research Interests/Expertise: ​Developmental Psychopathology; Individual Differences; Time-Varying Risk and Protective Factors; Substance Use; Antisocial Behavior; Longitudinal Analyses; Ecological Momentary Assessment
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College of Communication and Information Sciences

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Anneliese Bolland, Ph.D.
Institute for Communication and Information Research

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Hard-to-Reach Populations and Factors that Affect Them; Large Longitudinal Data Sets
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Becky Britt, Ph.D.
Journalism and Creative Media

  • Research interests/Expertise: Health Disparities; Communication; Social Support; Online Communities; Computational Methods; Large Scale Web Data; Health Misinformation; Population Health
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Steven Holiday, Ph.D.
Department of Advertising and Public Relations

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Children and Media; Advertising to Families; Advertising Literacy; Selfies; Nontraditional Advertising; Advertising History
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Leah LeFebvre, Ph.D.
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Department of Communication Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Interpersonal Communication; Personal Relationships; Relationship Dissolution; Emerging Technology; Social Media; Mobile Dating Applications; Research Methods; Mixed Methodology
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Joshua Pederson, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Studies

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Communication; Relationships; Coping; Social Support; Personal Networks; Surveys; Observations; Conversation Analysis; Regression Modeling; Qualitative Analysis
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College of Community Health Sciences

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Joy Bradley, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

  • Research Interests/Expertise:
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Marissa Giggie, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Violence Prevention; Student Mental Health; Physician Mental Health
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John Higginbotham, Ph.D.
Institute for Rural Health Research

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Related to Cancer and Other Health Issues that Impact Rural Areas
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Mercedes Morales-Aleman, Ph.D.
Department of Community Medicine and Population Health and Institute for Rural Health Research 

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Adolescent Latinas; Health Disparities; Sexual Health; Health Care Access & US South; Qualitative Methods; Program Evaluation; Community-Based Participatory Research
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Thaddeus Ulzen, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Incarcerated Adolescents; Paranoid Spectrum Disorders; Mental Retardation and Mental Health Consultation to Primary Care Physicians and Underserved Geographical Locations; Use of Telemedicine in Education and Clinical Service
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Lloyda Williamson, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

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Lea Yerby, Ph.D.
Institute for Rural Health Research

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Community Medicine; Health Disparities; Population Health; Health Disparities in Rural Children; Medicaid Innovation
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Culverhouse College of Business

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Russell Matthews, Ph.D.
Department of Management

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Work-Family; Workplace Safety; Employee Well-Being; Burnout; Interpersonal Relationships; Workplace Mistreatment; Structural Equation Modeling; Longitudinal Designs; Dyadic Data; Factor Analysis
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School of Social Work

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Jill Beck, J.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Management of Working on Womanhood Program (WOW); Inpatient and Outpatient Programs for Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities
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Catherine Carlson, Ph.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Child Welfare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Implementation Science; International Social Work; Violence Against Women and Children
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Leah Cheatham, Ph.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: “Youth Aging Out”; Disability Issues Among Youth in Care; Understandings of Disability in Social Welfare Service Provision; Attitudes Toward Disability (Measurement Validation); Transitions to Adulthood Among Youth with Disabilities
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Sha-Rhonda Green, Ph.D.

Laura Hopson, Ph.D.

Sebrena Jackson, Ph.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Child Protective Services; Child Welfare; Community-Based Social Work Practices; Family Preservation Services; Mental Health; Professional Self-Care; Social Work Education; Women's Emotional Health and Wellness
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  • Research Interests/Expertise: Evidence-Based Practice; School Climate; Social Work Services in School
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  • Research Interests/Expertise: Child Welfare; Field Education; Foster Care; Social Work Online Education
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                                   Brenda Smith, Ph.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Child Welfare Policy and Services; Organizational and Policy Contexts of Practice; Policy and Service Disparities
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Amy Traylor, Ph.D.

  • Research Interests/Expertise: Children and Youth; Mental Health; Substance Abuse
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health

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Henna Budhwani, Ph.D., MPH

  • ​Research Interests/Expertise: Health Equity; Implementation Science; Intervention Research; Adolescent Health; Global Health; Reproductive Health; HIV Prevention 
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