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Disaster Mentoring Program Faculty :: Mentors

The project has been structured to allow for a wide inclusion and flexible participation of experts in the field. The faculty span disciplines of psychiatry and psychopharmacology; epidemiology and public health; social, health, counseling, and clinical psychology; and medical and economic anthropology. Their research has focused on children, adults, and older adults, as well as on a variety of ethnic and cultural groups. Here is a list of current mentors.

  • Benight, Chip, PhD (Counseling Psychology): Social cognitive theory, coping self-efficacy.
  • Boscarino, Joseph, PhD, MPH (Social Psychology): mental health services, research participation
  • Bromet, Evelyn, PhD (Epidemiology): Young children and mothers, psychiatric epidemiology.
  • Canino, Glorisa, PhD (Clinical Psychology): Psychiatric epidemiology, substance use, assessment, cross-cultural research, children.
  • Dougall, Angela, PhD (Health Psychology): Determinants of long-term stress responding.
  • Fullerton, Carol, PhD (Human Development): Rescue/recovery workers and families.
  • Galea, Sandro, MD, DPH (Medicine, Epidemiology): Terrorism, population effects, novel methodologies.
  • Holman, Alison, PhD, FNP (Health Psychology): Coping, rapid response research.
  • Kaniasty, Krzysztof, PhD (Social Psychology): Mobilization and deterioration of social support.
  • Kilpatrick, Dean, PhD (Clinical Psychology): PTSD, treatment, epidemiology, criminal justice system.
  • Jones, Russell, PhD (Clinical Psychology): Children and families, fire.
  • LaGreca, Annette, PhD (Clinical and Developmental Psychology): Youth, services for children.
  • Marshall, Randall, MD (Psychiatry): PTSD treatment.
  • Murphy, Arthur, PhD (Anthropology): Culture, economic change, social class
  • Neria, Yuval PhD (Psychology): Post-disaster psychopathology, traumatic bereavement
  • North, Carol, MD, MPE (Psychiatry, Epidemiology): Psychiatric epidemiology, terrorism.
  • Palinkas, Lawrence, PhD (Anthropology): Psychiatric and cultural epidemiology, qualitative approaches.
  • Pfefferbaum, Betty, MD, JD (Psychiatry): Reactions of children to terrorism, services, media effects
  • Ruggerio, Ken PhD (Psychology): Disasters, traumatic stress, psychosocial interventions
  • Resnick, Heidi, PhD (Clinical Psychology): PTSD, treatment, early intervention, epidemiology.
  • Silver, Roxane, PhD (Social Psychology): Acute and long-term reactions, cognitive mediation of trauma effects.
  • Ursano, Robert, MD (Psychiatry): Bioterrorism, neurobiology, preparedness
  • Vernberg, Eric PhD (Psychology): Adolescents, violence prevention, recovery
  • Vlahov, David, PhD (Epidemiology): Terrorism, urban health, social epidemiologic approaches.

Complete bios on Mentors are available in About Us

Other Faculty/Mentors to be added.



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