Prevention Science
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
The Prevention Science graduate programs provide students with invaluable training on how to conduct and implement programs, interventions and research studies that address health inequities and improve the health of communities across the lifespan. Graduate students in our programs are exposed to research and coursework from faculty with diverse interests and expertise. Examples of health issues addressed in research and coursework include:
- Marketing and Public Health
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Risk and Resilience
- Stress Adaptation
- Immigration & Health
- Health and Place
- Sexual Health
- Parenting and Family Relationships
- Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
- Physical Activity
- Obesity Prevention
- Positive Youth Development
- School-Based Intervention
Programs
Faculty
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J. Mark Eddy's primary area of expertise is the development, refinement and rigorous testing of culturally informed multimodal preventive and clinical psychosocial interventions to improve physical and mental health outcomes for children and families...
Researches the social and emotional processes that shape intergroup attitudes toward migrants and advances prevention science through the design and evaluation of culturally responsive interventions.
Studies school and community-based interventions regarding physical activity, healthy eating, and the prevention of chronic disease.
Teaches from a holistic health perspective with a focus on personal health, including mental health, meditation and other stress management techniques.
Focuses on adolescent and young adult problem behavior development, and tobacco use and cessation.
Focuses on identifying factors that hinder or promote the success of children and families from vulnerable and underserved populations.
Focuses on understanding how contextual, familial, and individual-level factors influence substance use, mental health, and chronic diseases, and translating this evidence into culturally adapted, evidence-based interventions spanning a spectrum from...
Examines the relation between marketing influence on youth and young adult risk behavior such as substance use, nutrition, sleep and energy drink consumption.
My work primarily investigates how immigration policies (e.g., deportations, parental deportations) contribute to inequities in substance use, mental health, and use of treatment services among Latino populations.
My research interests and expertise center in the reduction of spatial health disparities in access to environments that enable physically active lifestyles. Specifically, my work focuses on understanding the context-specific relations between the bu...
Identity, acculturation, cultural stress, crisis migration, adolescent development, family functioning, substance use, mental health, well-being
Focuses on how individuals successfully adapt to stress and build health resilience.
Emeritus Faculty
Studies psychosocial factors in health behavior and health and well-being in adulthood and aging.
Labs and Research Areas
Seeks to advance the development, implementation and evaluation of culturally adapted, evidence-based interventions to improve health throughout the lifespan in the U.S. and abroad.
Culture, Family & Health Laboratory
Studies how identity, culture and family processes influence mental health and psychological well-being, focusing specifically on immigrant populations, ethnic minorities and U.S. citizens’ reactions to immigration
Exercise & Sport Psychology Laboratory
Develops interventions to increase physical activity and healthy eating and seeks to understand the benefits of exercise for mental health.
Focuses on better understanding how migration-related factors influence vulnerability to substance abuse and related harms among Latino communities in the U.S. and Mexico.
Examines how the marketing of unhealthy products impacts youth and young adults’ behaviors. Explores how risk behaviors may co-occur among adolescents and young adults.
Stress Adaptation and Health Resilience
Focus areas include diabetes self-management interventions, the role of positive emotions in reducing depressive symptoms, and the relationship between chronic psychosocial stress and metabolic health.
Tobacco Research and Evaluation Team
Researches youth and young adult tobacco use, and develops effective tobacco prevention programs and intervention tools that are easily accessible for various populations.
