Collaborators

David Almeida, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Families Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His primary research focus is stress and coping during middle adulthood, including the effects of biological and self-reported indicators of stress on health. He has examined stress processes in specific populations and contexts, such as the workplace and family interactions, parents of children with developmental disabilities, and family caregivers.

Katherine Ehrlich, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The University of Georgia. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the ways in which the social world shapes mental and physical health. She is particularly interested in questions about risk and resilience and close relationships in adolescence. Current projects include (a) an investigation of how ongoing stressors shape antibody response following flu vaccination and (b) a study of resilience and cardiometabolic health among minority youth.

Greg Fosco, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Families Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include family systems processes underlying adolescent development (substance use, problem behavior, emotional distress, positive well-being) and understanding change processes in family-centered preventive interventions.

Jessica Fish a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Families Studies at The University of Illinois. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ youth development and mental/behavioral health. She has a particular focus on how LGBTQ+ youth experiences in their homes, schools, and communities shape their development and mental health.

Terese Glatz , Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Social Work, and Psychology at Orebro University in Sweden. Her research focus is parenting, parent-child relationships, and children’s and adolescents’ development. She focuses on how parents think and perceive their own parenting role, what can influence their sense of competence as parents, and how this makes them relate and behave towards their children. One research area includes parents’ use of the Internet and social media and how this influences their parenting beliefs and well-being.

Will Hall, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill. His research is aimed at understanding mental health disparities facing LGBTQ adolescents and young adults (i.e., depression, anxiety, and suicidality), as well as developing and evaluating interventions that address these problems. He is interested in interventions at multiple socio-ecological levels, including individual clinical, education and training, school-based, and policy interventions. Dr. Hall’s research has been informed by his clinical practice and advocacy work with the LGBTQ community.

Andrea Hussong, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Psychology Department at UNC Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on developmental pathways to substance use and disorder, particularly for children of drug-involved parents and the creation of programs that support families coping with the challenges of parental drug addiction. More recently, her research has expanded to focus on positive youth development and processes that may promote resilience, most specifically the development of gratitude in children.

Michaeline Jensen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2016 from Arizona State University, and completed her Bachelor’s at the University of Arizona in 2008.  Her research focuses on the role of social contexts in adolescent development, with an emphasis on using novel tools to understand the parent-child relationship and the cultural environments within which these relationships are embedded. 

Todd Jensen, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, the Associate Director for Research in the Collaborative for Implementation Practice, and a Family Research and Engagement Specialist in the Jordan Institute for Families at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarship focuses on promoting family well-being in diverse contexts; strengthening family-serving systems; and centering equity in family research, practice, and policy. He received his doctorate from UNC Chapel Hill in 2017.

Soomi Lee, Ph.D.is an Associate Professor at Penn State. She is interested in sleep, stress, and daily well-being. Her current work focuses on: (1) the dynamic interplay between sleep and stress and their associations with daily well-being, (2) multidimensional sleep health and its associations with a variety of health outcomes, and (3) the importance of active lifestyles (e.g., activity diversity) in health across adulthood.

Roger Mills-Koonce, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at UNC in the school of education. His areas of expertise include biopsychosocial models of parenting, parent-child attachment relationships, and the emergence of self-regulation in early childhood; the biopsychosocial correlates of social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in early childhood and middle childhood; and the health and well-being of LGBTQ parents and children.

Gabe Schlomer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Albany, SUNY. His research is focused on the relation between parenting and adolescent externalizing behavior problems (e.g., aggression, delinquency) and risky sexual behaviors with an eye toward how to prevent or reduce them. In his work, he uses a variety of methodological and statistical approaches including longitudinal models and intervention designs. He often takes a biopsychosocial approach in his research, by examining how biological and environmental factors intersect, in order to get a more comprehensive picture of adolescent development. 

Panpan Yang, Ph.D. is a Research Specialist at Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study at Princeton University. Her research interests are focused on 1) child and adolescent development and parenting and 2) quantitative methods including multilevel modeling, growth modeling, and structural equation modeling. She received her doctorate in Educational Psychology and Methodology at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2021.