Research Interests
- Child maltreatment
- Children and the law
- Education
- Intergenerational effects of criminal justice policies
Selected Grants
Collaborative cross-agency practices for improving child well-being
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2024 - 2027Accelerated Aging in Gulf War Illness: Phenotypes, Epigenetic Biomarkers and Associations with Gulf War Exposures
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2023 - 2027IPA - Elizabeth Gifford
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center · 2019 - 2026Property Sales and Residential Displacement of Black and Hispanic Children in the American South: Implications for School Mobility and Educational Inequality
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Spencer Foundation · 2023 - 2025Reducing the Need for Out-of-home Placements: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effects of Family Centered Treatment on Well-Being Outcomes and Public Dollar Costs
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Family Centered Treatment Foundation · 2018 - 2025Evaluating and Developing Progressive Prosecution in Durham, North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Silicon Valley Community Foundation · 2021 - 2025Evaluating and Developing Progressive Prosecution in Durham, North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Arnold Ventures · 2021 - 2025Evaluating and Developing Progressive Prosecution in Durham, North Carolina
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies · 2021 - 2025Housing market activity, racial-ethnic inequality in housing insecurity and school success
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by William T. Grant Foundation · 2023 - 2024Avenues for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Child Maltreatment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2022 - 2024Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by New Venture Fund · 2018 - 2022Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Joyce Foundation · 2018 - 2022Early Identification and Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Cross-Agency Processes and Outcomes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2019 - 2022The Intergeneration Effects of Criminal Justice Policies on Substance Use Crimes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2020The Intergenerational Effects of the Criminal Justice System on Children's Health
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2016 - 2019Design a Randomized-Control Trial (RCT) of the Family Centered Treatment Intervention
ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by Family Centered Treatment Foundation · 2016 - 2017Truancy Prevention Project
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2012 - 2016Effects of drug treatment courts on outcomes of adults and their children
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2016Durham Substance Use Report
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Durham Together for Resilient Youth · 2015 - 2015Reducing Child Maltreatment Using Legal Interventions
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2013 - 2015Public Health Law and Child Abuse Prevention
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2013 - 2013Multilevel Modeling of Inpatient Care: Comorbid Youth
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2009Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Racial Inequality Research Grant: A close examination of racial inequality in foster care in Durham, NC ·
2022
PI ·
Awarded by: Duke Office of the Provost
External Relationships
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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