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Mary McKernan McKay, BSW, MSW, PhD
New York University

  • McSilver Professor of Poverty Studies
  • Director, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research

Dr. McKernan McKay has focused on HIV and adolescent health in urban environments, including implementing programs involving families of at-risk youth. She pioneered CHAMP (Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project)—a collaborative effort between university and community members to provide HIV prevention and mental health promotion services in urban, low-income communities, which began in Chicago and has been replicated in New York City, South Africa, and Trinidad.  She has received substantial federal funding for research focused on meeting the mental health and health prevention needs of inner-city youth and families.

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/our.faculty/mary.mckay.html

 

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Mark W. Fraser, MSW, PhD
University of North Carolina

  • John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need
  • Associate Dean for Research

Dr. Fraser has focused on the causes and prevention of aggressive behavior in childhood and early adolescence. He has designed and developed interventions for aggressive behavior in youth, and created curricula for social work education to help students implement these interventions. He has received several awards for research and teaching excellence. Among his recent books are Social policy for children and families: A risk and resilience perspective (with J. M. Jenson) and Intervention research: Developing SocialPprograms (with J. M. Richman, M. J. Galinsky and S. H. Day).

http://ssw.unc.edu/about/faculty/fraser

 

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Jeffrey M. Jenson, Ph.D.
University of Denver

  • Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at Risk
  • Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Social Work

Dr. Jenson’s research focuses on the application of a risk and resilience approach to preventing childhood and adolescent health and behavior problems and on the evaluation of prevention strategies aimed at promoting positive youth development. He has published four books and numerous articles on the topic of adolescent problem behavior. He is currently principal investigator of the Bridge Project Afterschool Project, a longitudinal investigation aimed at improving academic and behavioral outcomes among children and youth residing in four Denver public housing communities.

https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/port?portfolio=jjenson

 

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Sean Joe, PhD, LMSW
University of Michigan

  • Associate Professor of Social Work
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Associate, RCGD, Institute for Social Research

Dr. Joe is a nationally recognized authority on suicidal behavior among African Americans. Current research projects focus on Black adolescents' mental health service use patterns, the role of religion in Black suicidal behavior (with NIMH), salivary biomarkers for suicidal behavior, and development of father-focused, family-based interventions to prevent urban African American adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors (e.g., suicidal behavior).

http://ssw.umich.edu/about/profiles/profile-sjoe.html

 

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Sanna Thompson, Ph.D
University of Texas

  • Associate Professor

Dr. Thompson’s research has focused primarily on high-risk youth, with special emphasis on runaway/homeless youth populations.  She has conducted numerous studies of runaway and homeless youth utilizing emergency shelter services in the Midwest, Western New York, and Texas.  She has also conducted analyses of a national sample of runaway/homeless youth.  Dr. Thompson’s research has been published in journals such as, Family Relations, Social Work Research, Research on Social Work Practice, and Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse reflect her focus on issues of high-risk adolescents and their families.  She recently received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award.  This career development award provides funding to conduct and evaluate an in-home family-based intervention with high-risk youth and their families.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/nida/sanna.htm

 

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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, MS, MSW, PhD
New York University

  • Professor and Co-Director, CLAFH (Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health)
  • Director, PhD Program

Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has been the principal investigator of several federally funded research grants for his work on adolescent risk behavior. These include a five-year, National Institute for Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)-funded project aimed at investigating factors associated with the formation of adolescent romantic relationships and subsequent sexual risk behavior in Latino youth; an National Institute of Mental Health/NICHD-funded project aimed at developing a clinic-based family intervention designed to delay and/or reduce sexual risk taking behavior among Latino and African American early adolescents in outpatient healthcare settings; and a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)-funded project aimed at examining factors associated with HIV transmission in tourism areas of the Dominican Republic.

http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/our.faculty/vincent.guilamo-ramos.html

 

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Flavio Marsiglia, PhD
Arizona State University

  • Distinguished Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Health at the Arizona State University (ASU) School of Social Work
  • Director of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC)

Dr. Marsiglia is the principal investigator of clinical research studies such as Familias Sanas/Healthy Families, a hospital-based intervention study aimed at improving the interconception care of Latina mothers funded by the Centers of Medicare/Medicaid Services (HHS). In partnership with colleagues and several Arizona school districts and with support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the NIH he has developed and tested keepin’ it REAL – a substance abuse prevention Model Program for middle school students.  This intervention is now being implemented across the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marsiglia was the principal investigator of the NIDA/NIH funded social work research infrastructure center grant, one of only seven such grants awarded to schools of social work.  These research and teaching activities have a global focus.  He coordinates an ongoing international scholars’ exchange program at SIRC and conducts research and training in partnership with universities in Mexico and Spain.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/35955


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1/3/2013
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