Prevention Research
The Division of Prevention Research has a diversified research portfolio that builds upon long-term collaborative relationships with faculty in other departments of the university’s School of Medicine , with faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and with faculty in the NIMH-funded Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In addition, the Division operates with a number of adjunct faculty, collaborators in state government and graduate students. Drs. Elizabeth McGarvey and Adrienne Keller have worked independently and together over the last 12 years to conduct applied research studies and lead evaluation studies in a variety of areas related to juvenile justice, family attachment and chronic illness. Externally funded research projects, through NIH, CDC and SAMHSA, have included attachment and drug abuse in incarcerated adolescents, psychosocial aspects of cancer survival and substance abuse prevention in the workplace.
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Elizabeth McGarvey, Ed.D. Associate Professor and Division Director
Adrienne Keller, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Research Director
The Division of Prevention Research has a diversified research portfolio that builds upon long-term collaborative relationships with faculty in other departments of the university’s School of Medicine , with faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and with faculty in the NIMH-funded Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In addition, the Division operates with a number of adjunct faculty, collaborators in state government and graduate students. Drs. Elizabeth McGarvey and Adrienne Keller have worked independently and together over the last 12 years to conduct applied research studies and lead evaluation studies in a variety of areas related to juvenile justice, family attachment and chronic illness. Externally funded research projects, through NIH, CDC and SAMHSA, have included attachment and drug abuse in incarcerated adolescents, psychosocial aspects of cancer survival and substance abuse prevention in the workplace.