Research Overview

The Department of Behavioral & Community Health has a diverse faculty with a wide array of research interests, including:

• Adolescent health (Beck, Sawyer, Howard , Voorhees, Boekeloo, Daughters, Green)
• Alcohol abuse - college use (Clark)
• Alcohol and drug abuse (Beck, Daughters, Green)
• Behavioral intervention research (Boekeloo, Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
• Cancer screen (Holt)
• Community-based health promotion (Holt, Green)
• Community Health (Desmond, Voorhees)
• Complementary & Alternative Health Care (Feldman)
• Distance Learning (Gold)
• Health Behavior (Feldman, Desmond, Voorhees, Holt, Green )
• Health Disparities (Green, Holt, Daughters)
• Health Informatics (Gold)
• HIV/AID prevention and intervention (Daughters)
• Human Sexuality (Sawyer)
• Injury prevention/traffic safety (Beck)
• International/Cultural Health (Feldman)
• Mental Health (Green, Daughters)
• Minority health/Social inequalities in health (Desmond, Howard, Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
• Neurobiological mechanisms of addiction (Daughters)
• Nutrition/Nutrition Behavior (Feldman, Voorhees)
• Obesity (Glover, Clark)
• Occupational Health Promotion (Feldman)
• Physical Activity (Voorhees)
• Physician Behavior (Boekeloo)
• Program Planning and Evaluation (Feldman, Beck, Desmond)
• Psychosocial dimensions of health behavior (Desmond, Howard, Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
• Public health communication & media development (Sawyer, Holt)
• Quantitative Methods, Evaluation (Wang, Green)
• Resilience (Desmond, Howard, Green)
• Risk behavior (Beck, Desmond, Daughters, Green)
• School Health (Sawyer)
• Smokeless Tobacco (Glover, Clark)
• Smoking Cessation/Prevention of Onset (Feldman, Glover, Voorhees)
• Social & Physical Environmental Factors (Voorhees)
• Stress and health outcomes (Daughters)
• Survey Development and Psychometrics (Holt)
• Systems thinking in public health (Clark)
• Tailored Health Education Applications (Gold)
• Technology in Health Education (Gold)
• Tobacco harm reduction (Clark)
• Urban Health (Clark)
• Violence prevention/community violence (Desmond, Howard, Green)
• Women's health (Voorhees, Green)

Specialized laboratories operating within the Department include:

• The Public Health Informatics and Communications Research Laboratory

Current funding sources include DHHS, CDC, Maryland Department of Transportation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NIH, NIDA, American Cancer Society, HCFA, and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Corporation for National Service.