Overview
Jennifer Godwin is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy. She joined the Center in 2003 to provide statistical expertise for various projects. Currently, she works on the Fast Track and Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence projects, providing statistical analyses. She has extensive programming experience in SAS, Stata and MPlus, including survival analysis, mediation models, and multilevel models for continuous and categorical dependent variables.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Research Scientist
Center for Child and Family Policy,
Sanford School of Public Policy
Recent Publications
Hair cortisol concentrations among youth in Ukraine: Associations with war experiences and post-traumatic-stress symptoms.
Journal Article Psychoneuroendocrinology · April 2026 ObjectiveTo explore relations between cortisol response measured by hair cortisol concentrations (HCC), war exposure (e.g., air alarms and explosions), and psychological distress for youth living in Ukraine during the current invasion.Methods< ... Full text CitePathways of intergenerational transmission of depression: The role of the Fast Track intervention.
Journal Article Dev Psychopathol · September 10, 2025 Although depression can be transmitted across generations, less is known about how this cycle can be interrupted. This study examines whether the multilevel Fast Track intervention (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01653535) disrupts intergenerational transmission o ... Full text Link to item CiteThe Role of Despair in Predicting Self-Destructive Behaviors
Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · June 1, 2025 Working age (25–64) mortality in the US has been increasing for decades, driven in part by rising deaths due to drug overdose, as well as increases in suicide and alcohol-related mortality. These deaths have been hypothesized by some to be due to despair, ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Intervention Impacts on Child Wellbeing and Parenting across Generations
ResearchStatistician · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2017 - 2029Mid-Life Health Inequalities in the Rural South: Risk and Resilience
ResearchData Manager · Awarded by University of Vermont · 2023 - 2028Childhood, Adolescence, and Covid-Related Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Adjustment in Early Adulthood Across Cultures
ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2022 - 2027View All Grants