Child Policy Staff

A-B-C-D

Class size reduction, vouchers, charter schools, student accountability, school accountability, and school finance reform

Postsecondary education, K-12 education reform, student assessment, and the organizational behavior of educational institutions and systems

Welfare reform, social and racial inequalities, family structure, juvenile justice, child socialization, adoption and foster care

Aging, social and racial inequalities in health, survey methodology, demography

Organizational psychology, implications of technology for organizations

Economics of the family, family structure, welfare reform, child support, food assistance programs, maternal and child health, and fertility

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Drew University of Medicine and Science; race, poverty, and infectious disease spread; HIV prevention; illicit drug use; drug enforcement policy

Mental health, homelessness, substance abuse

Higher education finance and governance, K-12 spending

Adolescent health, specifically in the areas of youth development, mental health, and reproductive health

Investments in children, diverting children from a life of crime, communication of research results to policy-oriented audiences

Mental health prevention/intervention programs, substance abuse prevention

Preventive interventions and public health policy, child health policy, maternal, child and adolescent health, alcohol and drug use and HIV/AIDS and STD

HIV and substance-use prevention, psychological adjustment to illness, social behavior

Education policy, education reform, human capital and skills formation

Professor, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, alternative health care, chiropractic, dental care, appropriateness, HIV

Social inequality by gender, race, and class; poverty and welfare; labor markets and employment; gender, work, and family; family sociology and demography

NASA and the U.S. aeronautics community coordination with the European Union, supply chain issues for childhood vaccines in developing countries, trade and infrastructure reforms

Mechanisms of adolescent and preadolescent risk taking behavior, peer behavior and peer relations; utilization and effectiveness of intervention services for youth

Child care, early childhood education, child health

Mental health services, mental health policymaking, maternal and child health, military health

Labor and population, health, education

Economics of mass media regulation, labor economics, manpower, welfare reform

Integration of information technology into teaching and learning

Health promotion and disease prevention, families and children, energy and environment, social epidemiology; neighborhood effects on health and nutrition, maternal and child health, the effect of social determinants on health disparities, especially diet and diet-related disease, monitoring and evaluation of programs and interventions

E-F-G-H

Substance abuse epidemiology, treatment services delivery, community health/substance abuse/social services policy, survey research methods

Item response theory, scale development, evaluation, multivariate analysis, substance abuse, preventive health care

Adolescent health, substance abuse prevention, adolescent/young adult violence, HIV risk, use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, effects of advertising on alcohol use

Community and family effects on child health

Child care costs for the Department of Defense, academic quality and productivity, human resource efficiencies, improving the government-university research partnership

Family background and structural constraints, whether school or community, promote or dissuade scholastic achievement and educational attainment of under-represented minority secondary school students; educational attainment and scholastic achievement of children of immigrant parents

Federal regulation of employee health benefits, health care quality under managed care, managed behavioral health care, effects of welfare reform on health care

Health promotion and disease prevention, K-12 education, quality of care; statistical: survival analysis; design of clinical and non-clinical studies; sampling; biostatistics; substantive: public health interventions, HIV/AIDS

Psychometrics, measures of student achievement, program evaluation.

Survey Study Director and Director of Community Outreach for breast cancer screening interventions in low-income communities, survey methodology, data collection management, program evaluation, community-based research, special-population surveys

Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction, patient adherence and health behaviors

Quality of health care, educational issues relating to bilingual and other underserved children, welfare reform

Crime and delinquency, domestic violence, juvenile offenders

The impact of stress on decisionmaking and cardiovascular health; race and ethnicity; health attitude-behavior relationships, behavioral medicine.

I-J-K-L

Co-Director, Drug Policy Research Center, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, HIV, outreach, behavioral medicine, behavior modification, treatment outcome

Mental health, traumatization, quality of life among the mentally ill, dissemination of effective psychotherapy

Quality of care, outcomes, performance measurement

Health decisionmaking, sexual risk behavior, HIV-related services research, quality of care, guidelines

School policy analysis, quantitative research methods

Child well-being, wage and income distribution, youth labor markets, retirement behavior, health insurance

Child and family policy, human capital investments, military manpower, child care, wages and occupational choice

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA; Director of UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma; asthma; access and quality of care for underserved populations; Latino health; pediatrics

Effects of context on human behavior using qualitative and qualitative methods

Assessment and evaluation

Health care, quality of care, vulnerable populations, health education

Intrahousehold resource allocation and child welfare, family structure, earnings inequality, education, retirement.

M-N-O-P

K-12 education policy, school-community collaboration, deliberative democracy.

Health outcomes, quality of life, patient satisfaction, traumatization and posttraumatic stress disorder

Health promotion and disease prevention, health decision making, psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use, adolescent sexual behavior, media effects on health risk behavior

Child and family research and policy, labor econometrics, international development

Time series methods, nonparametric regression methods, data analysis

Immigration and education, municipal finance, arts education

Teacher preparation reform, field research, teacher education, adolescent literacy, Title I, high-poverty schools, instructional practices, accountability

Substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, substance abuse epidemiology, adolescent substance abuse, behavioral medicine, treatment outcomes, drug courts

Education policy, program evaluation, program implementation, occupational safety, organizational performance

Nutrition, nutrition during pregnancy and post-partum period, military health and readiness issues

Drug and alcohol addiction, HIV prevention, long-term foster care, and guardianship

Project coordination and management, quality of care, guidelines, community health

Economics of substance use and abuse, drug policy, impact of legislation on health care markets and insurance, labor market effects of health care reform, managed care

Education technology, data driven decision-making in education, math and science education, human-computer interaction, computer interface design, impact of technology on individuals and organizations, randomized controlled experiments on the effectiveness of educational interventions

Fertility and marriage patterns, children's health and welfare, family organization in the United States and in developing countries

Labor and population, economic development, data management, maternal and child health, defense manpower

Families and children, ealth promotion and disease prevention, labor and household behavior, family structure and health, nonmarital cohabitation, parent/child interaction, parental gender preference

Alcohol and substance use disorders (prevention, diagnosis, treatment, outcome, mental health services) particularly among adolescents.

Q-R-S-T

Drug dependence epidemiology, adolescent drug-using behaviors and criminal justice responses to drug use.

Substance abuse policy, welfare reform, maternal and child health

School evaluation, instructional improvement, education policy

Child health and mortality, population and development, aging

How demographic and psychological factors interact with public policy issues. Health care, education, and information technology

Drug policy research, project administration

Health status, health risk behavior, managed care and vulnerable populations, aging

Child welfare; child health; child safety; violence prevention

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Services, UCLA; Director, UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; child and adolescent health; quality of health care; adolescent risk prevention; parent-child communication; immunization delivery; children of HIV-infected adults; physician-patient interactions

Smoking initiation and cessation among adolescents and adults, hard to reach and underserved populations of adult smokers (i.e., alcoholic and drug abusing smokers; HIV-positive smokers)

Policy management, program development

Health status, assessment, social support, patient adherence, coping styles, child health, mental health, anxiety disorder

Employment and wage trends in labor market; poverty, racial, sex, and ethnic labor market outcomes; demography of the United States; compensation in litigation; demography and economic position of older Americans

Education policy, work-based learning for high school students

Educational accountability and assessment

Health care, substance abuse services research, violence exposure on children

Health care policy, health services research

Regional and neighborhood effects on health and health service utilization among marginal populations and children

Children's social and emotional development, program evaluation, public and private education systems, education policy and practice, health disparities, health policy and practice, international and domestic educational and health services

Psychosocial influences on health and health behavior, substance-abuse prevention.

U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Immigration reform, urban policy and economic development, strategies for improving minority education

International development, children's rights, schooling of refugee children, K-12 education reform

Tobacco control policy, health promotion and disease prevention, quality of care

Substance abuse, mental illness, gender, welfare reform

Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, mental health, quality of care, depression

Substance abuse, violence, mental health, needs and service use among homeless and other impoverished groups

Child abuse, prenatal substance exposure, parent education, parent-school involvement, family well-being

Educational peer effects, educational finance, schooling tracking