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President's
Message By
Deborah Gorman-Smith
It
has been a privilege to serve as President of the
Society for Prevention Research and to work with the
SPR Board of Directors, each of whom are dedicated
to addressing the increasing challenges that face
the Society and the field of prevention science. The
Board, SPR standing committees and special task forces
have been very busy over the past year working on
advancing the field of prevention science and increasing
SPR’s presence as the leading scientific organization
in the field. I’m pleased to have the opportunity
to share with you some highlights of the contributions
of many outstanding SPR members who volunteer with
great commitment, time and energy for SPR.
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Editor's
Welcome By
Hanno Petras
Welcome to the third issue of the SPR Community. I
am very pleased with this issue since it builds on
the themes and success of the past issues. While we
have not been able to adhere to a stable submission
schedule, which I hope we will be able to iron out
in the future, I am sure that you will find the content
of interest. As we have done in the past, I have invited
two of the founding members of SPR, namely Gene Oetting
and Ralph Tarter to reminisce on the past and future
of Prevention Science. In addition, many discussions
in 2013 were centered on the Affordable Care Act and
what it will mean for Prevention. I feel fortunate
that Larry Cohen and Rob Waters from the Prevention
Institute were able to submit their perspective on
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Health
Reform Helps Prevention Flower but Threats Endanger
Progress By
Larry Cohen and Rob Waters
Many of us have been working for years to demonstrate
the power of prevention to improve people’s
health and wellbeing while reducing healthcare costs.
For prevention researchers and advocates, passage
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(ACA) was an affirmation of our work and an opportunity
to demonstrate the value of prevention. The Act puts
prevention at the center of efforts to reshape the
most expensive health system in the world. The words
prevent or prevention appear more than 400 times in
the bill, and with good reason: Chronic, often preventable
conditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke,
diabetes and injuries account for seven of ten deaths
among Americans and roughly three-fourths of our $2.7
trillion-a-year healthcare bill. About 40 percent
of premature deaths are linked to smoking, poor diet,
lack of physical activity and other unhealthy behavior,
according to the Institute of Medicine. Preventable
injuries are a major contributor to hospital visits,
death and costs, with an estimated annual price tag
of $406 billion in medical costs and lost productivity.
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Reflections
on SPR and Prevention Science: The Phoenix Principle
By
Gene Oetting
It
was dusk in the Colorado foothills and, after the
trail ride, the horses were back in the stable. We
were sitting, cold beer in hand, on the cleared picnic
tables; listening to the cowboy poet tell tales of
the old west while warming his hands at the campfire.
Behind him, heat lightning was flickering far on the
horizon, reflected in the lake. On this final night
of the first meeting of the Society for Prevention
Research, about three dozen of us were gathered at
Lory State Park, above Ft. Collins, Colorado. It was
a dream-like evening, but our finest fantasies for
the future could not have matched what we have become
today, a vital, thriving society of hundreds of scientists
from a wide range of disciplines, all committed to
preventing harm of one form or another. View
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The
Future of the Scientific Practice of Prevention By
Ralph Tarter
Many
summer afternoons were spent with my father in the
cheap seats rooting for the Montreal Royals, then
the triple A farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers. My
dad, like thousands of men, wore a white shirt, tie
and fedora. Fast forward six decades, men today at
the ballpark typically wear a tee shirt (if any),
never a tie, and baseball cap (often pointed backwards).
Changing norms pertaining to dress mirror relaxation
of behavioral norms. Ubiquitous examples of currently
normative behavior that were only recently beyond
societal boundaries include “body art”
(previously confined to criminals and sailors), babies
born outside of marriage (currently the majority for
women under 30), and ornamental jewelry skewered to
many body parts apart from traditional earlobes. Attributions
of these changes to “secular trends”,
“birth cohort” or “historical period
effect” do not account for the causes. Because
prevention is modification of processes predisposing
to a disorder, it is essential to understand the causes
of the disorder for the intervention to be effective.
This approach to prevention is consistent with the
NIH Roadmap. Indeed, it is a cardinal principle medicine.
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An
Interview with 2012 SPR Cup Winners
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Caption:
left to right: Shu (Violet) Xu, Kathleen Zadzora,
Alexis Harris, Jacqueline Cox, Charles Beekman
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In
recognition of the importance of the collaborative
process to the field, the Society for Prevention Research
(SPR) annually sponsors a friendly competition amongst
teams of researchers for the honor of bringing home
the Sloboda and Bukoski SPR Cup. The Cup is named
for two of the founders and long-time active members
of SPR, Dr. Zili Sloboda and Dr. William Bukoski.
The Cup competition is an opportunity for an unique
experience: several independent teams of scientists,
each working with the same data set, problem solve
together for a brief period of time and then jointly
present their ideas to each other and a larger group
of experienced prevention scientists. At
the 20th SPR Annual Meeting, five teams competed for
the 7th Annual SPR Sloboda and Bukoski Cup. The teams
all worked with the same data set the Second Injury
Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS-2). Collection of
this dataset was sponsored by the National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). View
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International
Task Force By
Brenda A. Miller
The
International Task Force (ITF) is currently comprised
of the following members: John Toumbourou (Australia),
Moshe Israelashvili (Israel), Josipa Basic (Croatia),
Jeff Lee (England), Hanno Petras (USA), Zili Sloboda
(USA), and Brenda A Miller (Chair-USA). The ITF meets
on a (nearly) monthly basis via teleconference calls.
We have established a number of ongoing efforts for
the later part of 2012 and for 2013. First,
we are providing networking opportunities for international
colleagues to meet during the yearly pre-conference
networking forum at the annual meetings. We will continue
to provide this International Networking Forum at
the 2013 conference in San Francisco (click here for
agenda http://www.preventionresearch.org/2013-annual-meeting/international-focused-events/).
The ITF has been engaged in facilitating and supporting
the exchange of prevention science scientific knowledge
and ideas worldwide. Members of the ITF have actively
supported the Drug Prevention and Health Branch of
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
in their efforts to develop international prevention
standards that emphasize science based prevention
strategies. Towards this end, the SPR Board has written
a letter of support to the UNODC effort. The ITF has
been actively engaged in the yearly SPR conference
planning, supporting development of roundtable, plenary,
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National
Preventionist Network
By Craig L PoVey
The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Directors, Inc. (NASADAD) is a private, not-for-profit
educational, scientific, and informational organization.
The system that NASADAD represents is primarily funded
by the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT)
Block Grant. NASADAD’s
basic purpose is to foster and support the development
of effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention
and treatment programs throughout every State. NASADAD
serves as a focal point for the examination of alcohol
and other drug related issues of common interest to
both other national organizations and federal agencies.
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Member
News
GRANTS
Jessica Duncan Cance, MPH, PhD, received her first
grant: R03 DA033413 “Examining the relations
of cigarette and alcohol across emerging adulthood”
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Patrick Malone, PhD, a quantitative and social psychologist,
has been awarded tenure as an Associate Professor
of Psychology at the University of South Carolina.
He specializes in methods for latent variable modeling
and longitudinal analysis for adolescent health
risk behaviors.
Weiwei Liu, PhD, finished her post-doctoral fellowship
in Prevention at Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health in June 2012 and transitioned to NORC at
the University of Chicago as a Research Scientist
in the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal
Justice Studies (SAMHCJ) department in July 2012.
Bettencourt, A. F., Farrell, A. D., Liu, W., and Sullivan,
T, N, “Stability and change in patterns of peer
victimization and aggression during adolescence”,
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Doi: 10.1080/15374416.2012.738455 (Online first).
Coffman,
D.L., & Kugler, K.C. (2012). Causal mediation
of a human immunodeficiency virus preventive Intervention.
Nursing Research, 61(3), 224-230. PMCID (https://ucs.psu.edu/zimbra/CID),
PMC3377683.
Lanza,
S.T., Tan, X., & Bray, B.C. (in press). Latent
class analysis with distal outcomes: A flexible model-based
approach. Structural Equation Modeling.
Liu,
W., Lee, G., Goldweber, A., Ialongo, N., Petras, H.,
Storr, C. and Martins, S. (2012) “Impulsivity
trajectories and gambling in adolescence among urban
male youth”, Addiction doi: 10.1111/add.12049
(Online first).
Liu,
W., Kuramoto, J., and Stuart, E. (In press) “An
Introduction to Sensitivity Analysis for Unobserved
Confounding in Non-Experimental Prevention Research”,
Prevention Science
Martins,
S., Liu, W., Hedden, S., Goldweber, A, Storr, C.,
Derevensky, J. Stinchfield, R., Ialongo, N. and Petras,
H. (In press) “Youth aggressive/disruptive behavior
trajectories and subsequent gambling among urban male
youth”, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent
Psychology
Masyn,
K., Petras, H., and Liu, W. (2013) “Latent Growth
Models and the Study of Change with Binary and Ordinal
Outcomes” in Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd
(Ed.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal
Justice
Two
years ago, SPR members were invited to share their
experiences with and views on the topic of mentorship
via an online survey. Preliminary results were presented
during the Early Career Preventionist Network (ECPN)
luncheon at the 2010 SPR annual meeting. Complete
results of the survey are now available in an article
recently published in Prevention Science, along
with reflections and advice for the advancement
of mentoring within the SPR community. Reference:
Véronneau,
M.-H., Cance, J. D., & Ridenour, T. A. (2012).
Mentoring early-career
preventionists: Current views from mentors and protégés.
Prevention Science, 13 (5), 493-503.
The
American Psychological Association has recently
published a volume titled: Methodological Approaches
to Community-Based Research. This book offers innovative
research tools that are most effective for understanding
social problems in general and change in complex
person-environment systems at the community level.
Methodological pluralism and mixed-methods research
are the overarching themes in this groundbreaking
edited volume, as contributors explain cutting-edge
research methodologies that analyze data in special
groupings, over time, or within various contexts.
Allison Dymnicki and SPR Member David Henry wrote
a chapter for this volume on the uses of clustering
methods in community research. Reference
Leonard,
J.A., Glenwick, D.S. (2012). Methodological Approaches
to Community-Based
Research. American Psychological Association. Washington,
D.C.
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SPR
21st Annual Meeting
The Science of Prevention: Building a Comprehensive National
Strategy for Well-Being
May
28-31, 2013, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco,
CA
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BOARD
OF DIRECTORS 2012 – 2013
President
Deborah Gorman-Smith, Ph.D.
The University of Chicago
debgs@uchicago.edu
President-Elect
Felipe Gonzalez Castro, Ph.D.
University of Texas at El Paso
Fcastro4@utep.edu
Treasurer
George W. Howe, Ph.D.
George Washington University
ghowe@gwu.edu
Secretary
Karen Bierman, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University
kb2@psu.edu
Board
Members
Brian Bumbarger, MEd
The Pennsylvania State University
bbumbarger@episcenter.org
Kenneth
Dodge, Ph.D.
Duke University
dodge@duke.edu
Margaret
Ensminger, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
mensming@jhsph.edu
Abigail Fagan, Ph.D.
Florida State University
afagan@fsu.edu
Nancy
Gonzales, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
nancy.gonzales@asu.edu
Phillip
Graham, Ph.D., Diversity Network Committee Chair
RTI International, Inc.
pgraham@rti.org
Mark
Greenberg, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University
Mxg47@psu.edu
Kevin
Haggerty, Ph.D.
University of Washington
haggerty@uw.edu
Karl
Hill, Ph.D.
University of Washington
khill@u.washington.edu
Keryn
Pasch, M.P.H., Ph.D., ECPN Chair
The University of Texas at Austin
kpasch@mail.utexas.edu
Hanno
Petras, Ph.D.
JBS International, Inc.
hpetras@jbsinternational.com
Guillermo
(Willy) Prado, Ph.D.
University of Miami
GPrado@med.miami.edu
Daniel
Shaw, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
casey@pitt.edu
Emeritus Board Members
William
Bukoski, Ph.D.
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.
Richard Clayton, Ph.D.
Nancy Grant Harrington, Ph.D.
Karol L. Kumpfer, Ph.D.
John B. Reid, Ph.D.
Zili Sloboda, Sc.D.
Ralph E. Tarter, Ph.D.
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Address:
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Road, Suite 200, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA
Phone:
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Fax: 703-359-7562
Email: info@preventionresearch.org
Staff:
Jennifer Lewis, CAE, Executive Director
703-934-4850, ext. 213, jenniferlewis@preventionresearch.org
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Garringo, Membership Director
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