Adolescent health panel provides research recommendations

The Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Program co-hosted a panel discussion on September 1, 2005, with the Academic Centers of Excellence (ACE) on Youth Violence Prevention to generate ideas for a cross-cutting research agenda for adolescent health. This document summarizes the recommendations of the panel, including how to address multiple risk and protective factors that influence adolescent behavior and health, and the methodologic and analytic challenges raised by those interrelated factors.

Download the summary of the panel discussion [PDF-70K].

Panelists
Cleo Caldwell, PhD, University of Michigan, PRC
Nancy Guerra, EdD, University of California at Riverside, ACE
Kimberly Horn, MA, MSc, Maps, EdD, West Virginia University, PRC
Michael Resnick, PhD, University of Minnesota, PRC
Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, UCLA/RAND, PRC
Michael Windle, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, ACE

Discussants
Geri Dino, PhD, West Virginia University, PRC
Philip Leaf, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, ACE
Freya Sonenstein, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, PRC