Mentors for PhD Students

Research Topics: Alcohol and marijuana use, especially in emerging and young adults; psychosocial factors (gender, ethnicity) in substance use; use of technology for assessment and intervention.

Research Topics: Substance use and misuse; social network influences on changes in substance use; impact of substance use on family functioning and health; emergency preparedness, preparation, coordination and training of rural disaster response teams; and mitigation of the impact of disaster response on the health of first responders.

Research Topics: Alcohol use; substance use disorder recovery; ecological momentary assessment; intensive longitudinal data; affect/emotion dynamics; psychological well-being; quantitative methods.

Research Topics: Environmental, community, organizational and behavioral interventions to improve nutrition, increase physical activity and encourage appropriate cancer screening; health disparities; food access and local food systems; obesity and cancer prevention.

Research Topics: Illness risk perception, including uncertainty about risk perception and its implication for health behavior and risk perception measurement; determinants and consequences of health information avoidance and reducing health information avoidance; health equity, with a focus on health care equity.

Research Topics: Caffeine use among adolescents; exercise and nutrition interactions; factors that influence ingestive behavior and the development of obesity in humans.