Affiliates
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
program evaluation, health disparities, global health policy, and health economics
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
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Research Interests:
psychology and aging health effects of everyday stressors
College of the Liberal Arts
McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
Director, Center for Life Course and Longitudinal Studies
Research Interests:
social psychology; cognitive aging; social stratification and health; life course
College of Medicine
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
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Research Interests:
health care disparities and novel individual provider metrics of equitable health care
College of the Liberal Arts
Professor of Psychology
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Research Interests:
child abuse and neglect; maternal behavior; family processes and risk issues
College of the Liberal Arts
Evan Pugh Professor
Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies
Director of the Child Study Center
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Research Interests:
child-clinical psychology; social-emotional development; preventive interventions
College of Medicine
C. McCollister Evarts, MD, Endowed Chair and Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Vice Dean of the University Park Regional Medical Campus
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Research Interests:
orthopaedic surgery ; orthopaedic manpower; musculoskeletal health care delivery
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Co-Leader of the Penn State Cancer Institute Population Health and Cancer Control (PHCC) Program
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Research Interests:
youth tobacco use and cessation; behavioral economics and tobacco use; smoking among cancer patients; parental and peer-influences on tobacco use
Smeal College of Business
Professor of Management and Organization
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Research Interests:
organization theory institutional change; professional organizations and careers; organizational employment practices; corporate responsibility
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Teaching Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
strategic planning; health care marketing; US health care system and organization
College of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
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Research Interests:
health disparities; cancer prevention and control; HPV vaccination, implementation science, public health law, health services research
College of Liberal Arts
School Director and Professor, Labor and Employment Relations
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Research Interests:
labor and management partnership and collaboration in the U.S. Health Care Industry; employee voice and engagement of front-line workers in the U.S. health care industry; collective bargaining in the U.S. health care industry
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Kinesiology and Human Development & Family Studies
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Research Interests:
motivation-based behavior change interventions to improve health and well-being; physical activity & sedentary behavior
Smeal College of Business
William Elliott Chaired Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Department Chair
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Research Interests:
insurance and risk management; employer-sponsored health insurance policies
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
long-term care management and policy
College of Health and Human Development
Director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
Outreach Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
rural health; health disparities; rural health policy and advocacy; agricultural health and safety
College of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography
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Research Interests:
health, kinship, inequality, racial disparities and kidney transplantation, and gene-environment interplay
College of the Liberal Arts
Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
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Research Interests:
production and effects of persuasive messages; meta-analysis
College of Health and Human Development
Research Professor in the Prevention Research Center
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Research Interests:
family and community prevention; large-scale dissemination
College of Nursing
Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State
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Research Interests:
detection and management of delirium; nondrug interventions for dementia and delirium; healthy cognitive aging; inappropriate medication use in older adults
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Director of the Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment
President of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
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Research Interests:
transdisciplinary methods and developmental approach to understand interactions between neurobiological processes and environmental factors as they influence behavioral health and intervention outcomes
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography
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Research Interests:
child and adolescent health disparities; child and family health policy; health care access and utilization
College of Health and Human Development
Department Head of Health Policy and Administration
College of Medicine
Professor of Surgery and Public Health Sciences
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Research Interests:
Economic evaluation, outcomes research, Bayesian Inference, research bridging surgical issues and economics
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Affiliate Law Faculty
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Research Interests:
health law; access to care; health disparities; hospital care (including utilization and readmissions); emergency medical services and emergency department care; public health services and systems research; public health law
College of Nursing| College of Medicine
Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research
Professor of Nursing
Professor of Medicine
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Research Interests:
palliative care and heart disease/critical care; family support/caregivers; qualitative methodology; concept advancement/analysis
College of Medicine
Associate Professor, of Public Health Sciences
Director of the Master of Public Health Program (MPH)
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Research Interests:
health service and systems; research informatics; comparative effectiveness and outcomes
College of the Liberal Arts
Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies
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Research Interests:
survey research methods; quantitative methodology; family and mental health
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Research Professor at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
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Research Interests:
methodology to address issues common with quasi-experimental data; understanding the public costs associated with behavior disorders; cost-effectiveness potential of family and youth intervention
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Education
Penn State Harrisburg
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Research Interests:
opioid abuse motivations; community outreach and engagement for substance abuse; substance abuse education, programming, and applied research; veteran health programming and policy
Penn State Beaver
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
health services research, economics of healthcare, health disparity, health insurance and outcome research
College of Nursing | College of Medicine
Professor of Nursing
Professor of Medicine
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Research Interests:
complex care issues in the elderly; dementia; drug burden in nursing home residents with dementia; non-pharmacological interventions for dementia
College of Medicine
Professor of Public Health Sciences
Associate Director of Health Disparities and Engagement at the Penn State Cancer Institute
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Research Interests:
evidence-based strategies for prevention and control of chronic diseases among minority and medically underserved populations
College of Nursing | College of Medicine
Professor of Nursing and Medicine
Schreyer Honors Adviser
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Research Interests:
end-of-life care in prisons; geriatric care in prisons; health attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of incarcerated and community-living older men
College of Nursing
Assistant Research Professor of Nursing
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Research Interests:
outcomes; value; behavioral economics of health and health care
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
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Research Interests:
family relationships and chronic illness; social cognitive models
College of Education
Professor of Education (Educational Psychology)
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Research Interests:
decision-making across the life span; improving reading comprehension from upper elementary school through retirement years
College of Nursing
Assistant Professor of Nursing
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Research Interests:
risk factors for child maltreatment; telehealth to improve quality of forensic care; mhealth and nurse health coaching to promote positive health behavior; identification and prevention of human trafficking among child welfare involved youth
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
economic impact of cancer; insurance; health and medical care utilization of the elderly
Penn State Law
Associate Dean for Research and Partnerships
Professor of Law
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Research Interests:
regulatory systems for food, drugs, medical devices, and healthcare delivery
College of the Liberal Arts
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
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Research Interests:
communicative behavior of individuals; adult development and aging; health communication
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Hospitality Management
Director of the Center for Hospitality Real Estate Strategy
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Research Interests:
strategic management; real estate; asset management
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography
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Research Interests:
health disparities and improving health equity within the context of chronic disease and the social determinants of health
College of Agricultural Sciences
Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology
Eberly Professor in Biotechnology
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Research Interests:
pathogen evolution; including drug resistance and vaccine escape
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
health economics; health policy; quality; access; cost; population health
College of Education
Associate Professor of Education (Educational Leadership) and Rural Sociology
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Research Interests:
intersection between social inequality and spatial inequality
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Associate Director of the Penn State Smart Spaces Center
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Research Interests:
mixed methods research; community based long-term service and support systems serving elders and persons with disability; self-directed long-term service and support programs; implementation and evaluation studies
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
health services research; health economics; patient decision-making and consumer behavior; quality of care and outcomes
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Outreach
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
cancer; health economics; costs and use of long-term care, mental health care, physician services and prescription drugs among older persons; insurance
College of Health and Human Development
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
healthcare policy health economics, information systems
College of Health and Human Development
Distinguished Professor of Biobehavioral Health and Medicine
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Research Interests:
stress, emotion and health; ambulatory assessment; interventions; health behaviors
College of Medicine
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Professor of Medicine (University Park Curriculum)
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Research Interests:
professional identity formation as a formal construct in medical education; lifestyle medicine; physical activity and nutrition in wellness and disease prevention; human performance
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
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Research Interests:
healthcare workforce shortages: training, management, retention and recruitment; health and aging with chronic illnesses; workplace redesign; psychosocial aspects of living with diabetes
Smeal College of Business
William Elliott Professor of Risk and Management
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Research Interests:
sensemaking, identity, learning, culture
College of Nursing
Associate Professor of Nursing
Director of the Program for Person-Centered Living Systems of Care
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Research Interests:
dementia; person centered care; evidence-based interventions for formal caregivers
College of the Liberal Arts
Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography
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Research Interests:
sensing systems; machine learning childhood obesity; immigrant assimilation demography
College of Health and Human Development
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
decision making; policy interventions; health outcomes and costs
College Nursing
Assistant Professor of Nursing
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Research Interests:
LGBTQ health and aging; health equity; LGBTQ-inclusive health care and services
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
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Research Interests:
expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
College of Health and Human Development
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
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Research Interests:
medical anthropology; global health
College of the Liberal Arts
Managing Director of the Criminal Justice Center for Research
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Research Interests:
criminal justice practice and policy
