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Society for Prevention Research Committees and Task Forces, 2021 – 2022, 10.25.2021

To be updated as committees are regrouped.

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Committee Chair Members
2022 Annual Conference J.D. Smith
(2021-2022)		 Guillermo (Willy) Prado (Past President and R13 grant PI), Abigail Fagan (President), Rashelle Musci (2021 Chair), Doug Coatsworth (Treasurer), Lauren Supplee, (Advocacy Committee Chair), Melissa Cox (ECPN Chair), Cady Berkel, Scott Okamoto (Membership Committee Co-Chairs), Bethany Bray (Membership Communications Committee board liaison), Stephanie Lanza  & Mildred Maldonado-Molina (MAPS V Task Force Co-Chairs), Eric Brown (International Committee,  Board Liaison), Nadine Finigan-Carr (Abstract Review Committee Chair, DNC Chair),  Amanda Nguyen (International Committee Chair), Brittany Cooper (Training Committee Chair),  Susannah Burt (NPN Liaison to SPR Board), and SPR Board members: Margaret Kuklinski, and SPR members Steven Kogan and Ron Prinz.

Federal agency representatives: ACF-Aleta Meyer & Laura Nerenberg; CDC-Vi Lee, Sandy Naoom; NCCIH-Della White; NCI- Tonya Agurs-Collins; NHLBI- Jennifer Curry; NIAAA (R13 grant lead agency)-Michael Hilton (Program Officer), Robert Freeman, Ralph Hingson, NICHD-Rosalind King, NIDA-Aria Crump, Amy Goldstein, NIMH- Eve Reider; NIMHD-Judith Arroyo; NIH/ODP-Jacqueline Lloyd, Wilma Peterman; NIH/OBSSR-Liz Ginexi.
Advocacy Committee Lauren Supplee

(2020-2022)

 Kathleen Anderson, William Beardslee,  Cady Berkel, Tony Biglan, Rhonda Boyd, Susie Breitenstein, Richard Catalano, Cheuk Hei Cheng, Brittany Rhoades Cooper, Max Crowley, Gracelyn Cruden, Abigail Gewirtz, Sean Grant, Megan Hicks, Kathleen Ratcliff, Velma Murry, Guillermo “Willy” Prado, Liz Robertson, Caryn Rodgers, Paula Smith (liaison to NPSC Board), Jeff Temple.

 
Diversity Network Committee (DNC) Nadine Finigan-Carr
(2021-2024)		 Rhonda Boyd, Miguel Angel Cano, Felipe Castro, Larissa Gaias, Phillip Graham,  Youngjo Im, Jerreed Ivanich, Mariano Kanamori, B.K. Elizabeth Kim, Sharon Lambert, Krista Mehari, Manuel Ocasio, Suzanne Randolph, Caryn Rodgers, Paula Smith, Nicole Tuitt, Monica Wilson

 
Early Career Preventionists Network (ECPN) Steering Committee Melissa Cox
(2021-2023)		 Elizabeth Baker, Daniel Cooper, MeLisa Creamer, Rachel Culbreth, Eleanor Dizon, Jen Doty, Rebecca Eliseo-Arras, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Kaitlin Fronberg, Larissa Gaias (chair elect), Amanda Gilmore, Dale Golden, Laurie Graham, Angela Henneberger, Emily Hennessy, Chanler Hilley, Youngjo Im, Sabrina Islam, Juhan Lee, Emily LoBraico, Silvia Nishiioka, Felice Resnik, Karen Robbie, Rachel Sadlon, Amanda Sisselman-Borgia, Crystal Smith, Christine Steeger, Ashwini Tiwari, Raven Weaver, Elizabeth Weybright, Martha Zimmerman
Ethics Task Force  

Tom Dishion and Irwin Sandler

(2015-2018)

Work completed

 Catherine Bradshaw, Kenneth Dodge, Leslie Brougham Freeman, Denise Gottfredson, Phillip Graham, Bonnie Leadbeater, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson (ECPN rep), Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Anne Mauricio, Emilie Smith
Finance & Management  

 

Doug Coatsworth

(2017-2022)

 Abigail Fagan (President), Guillermo “Willy” Prado (Past-President)
Fund Development  

Kim DuMont (2019-2022)

 
International Committee Amanda Nguyen

(2019-2022)

 

Eric Brown, Board Liaison

(2021-2024)

 Brenda Miller (US), Kendall Bryant (US), Gregor Burkhart (Portugal), Giovanna Campello (Austria),  Meen Chhetri (Nepal), Richard Clayton (US), William Crano (US), Rachele Donini (Italy), Livia Edegger, Emily Hennessy (US, SPR/ECPN rep), Laura Griner Hill, Moshe Israelashvili (Israel), Judy McCormally (US), Azu Onyemaechi Okpara (Namibia),  (Hanno Petro (US), Joanna Travis-Roberts, Jeremy Segrott (UK), Renati Solomon, John Toumbouro [pending fall 2019 updates]
MAPS I, Integrating Biological and Social Factors in P.R. Diana Fishbein (2008-2011)

Work completed.

 Michael Bardo, Tony Biglan, Thomas Dishion, Elizabeth Ginexi, Philip Fisher, Eve Moscicki, Jenae Neiderhiser, Michael Posner, Ty Ridenour, Ralph Tartar.

 

 
MAPS II, Type 2 Translational Research Richard Spoth and Luanne Rohrbach
(2008-2014)Work completed.		 Richard  Catalano, Deb Gorman-Smith, Mark Greenberg, Tamara Haegerich (CDC), J. David Hawkins, Phil Leaf, Aleta Meyer (ACF), Maryann Pentz, Elizabeth Robertson (NIDA), Zili Sloboda and paper co-authors Abby Fagan and C. Hendricks Brown.
MAPS III, Cost-Benefit Analysis Kenneth Dodge and J. Max Crowley

(2013-2018 )

Work completed.

 Steven Barnett, Kimber Bogard, Richard Clayton, Phaedra Corso, Sarah Duffy, Phillip Graham, Mark Greenberg, Ron Haskins, Laura Griner Hill, Damon Jones, Lynn Karoly, Margaret Kuklinski, Kerry Anne McGeary, Robert Plotnick.
MAPS IV, Translation Research Brian Bumbarger and Abigail Fagan (2016-2019) Richard Barth, Catherine Bradshaw, Brittany Rhoades Cooper, Deborah Klein Walker, Lauren Supplee, and Belinda Sims, Program Officer/Observer (NIDA) and C. Hendricks Brown and Deborah Gorman-Smith (2016-2017).
MAPS V,  Methods for Levering Big Data in Prevention Science Stephanie Lanza and Mildred Maldonado-Molina

(2018-2021)

 Jessica Cance, Max Crowley, Liz Ginexi, Angela Henneberger, Damon Jones, Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Michael Mason, Emilie Smith
MAPS VI, The Prevention Science of Context and Biology Leslie Leve and Luke Hyde

(2019-2022)

 Pending
Member Communications Keryn Pasch (2017-2022) and Kim Bethany Bray, Board Liaison (2021-2022) Amanda Sisselman-Borgia (ECPN rep. & social media staffer) [pending fall 2021 update]
Membership Cady Berkel, Scott Okamoto

(2021-2024)

  Susannah Burt, Melissa Cox, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Nadine Finigan-Carr,
Nominations J. Mark Eddy
(2020-2023)		 [to be updated for 2021]
Prevention Science’s Role in Reducing Disparities and Promoting Equity Task Force Rhonda Boyd, Felipe Gonzalez Castro Alison Barlow, Crystal Barksdale, Bethany Bray, Rico Catalano, Max Crowley, Nadine Finigan-Carr, Dionne Godette (NIH/ODP),  B.K. Elizabeth Kim, Sharon Lambert, Jacquelyn Lloyd (NIDA), Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Ezemenari Obasi, Scott Okamoto,  Xinzhi Zhang (NIMHD)
Publications Margaret Kuklinski
(2020-2022)		 Kerry Green, Sharon Lambert, John Lochman, and Catherine Bradshaw, Editor, Prevention Science.

 

 

 

 

 

Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOPS) Task Force (work completed): Tom Dishion, Hanno Petras, Patrick Tolan (chair), J.D. Smith (ECPN rep) and Catherine Bradshaw, Editor, Work of task force completed.
Recognition & Honors (Awards) Beth Stormshak

(2020-2023)

 

 Awards: Keryn Pasch, Elizabeth Robertson, Emily Tanner-Smith, John Tou

Fellows: Brenna Bry, Felipe Gonzalez Castro, Douglas Coatsworth, Greta Massetti, Guillermo (Willy) Prado, Sharlene Wolchik
Replication Brian Flay

Work completed.

 Tony Biglan, Robert Boruch, Felipe Gonzalez Castro, Linda Collins, Sheppard Kellam, Eve Moscicki, Steven Schinke, Jeff Valentine.
Standards of Evidence-Next Generation Task Force Denise Gottfredson (2013- 2015)

Work completed

 Thomas Cook, Frances Gardner, Deborah Gorman-Smith, George Howe, Irwin Sandler and Kathryn Marie Zafft.
Strategic Planning Task Force Richard Catalano (2014-2016)

Work completed

 Brian Bumbarger, Denise Gottfredson, Abi Gewirtz, Jessica Duncan Cance, Leslie Leve, Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Greta Massetti, Stephanie Lanza, Patrick Tolan
Training Brittany Rhoades Cooper (2021-2024)  

 

Elizabeth Baker, Bethany Bray, Eric Brown, Sarah Chilenski, Eleanor Dizon,  Alex Mason, Keryn Pasch, Kelly Rulison, Nicole Tuitt

 

Training Development Plan Taskforce: Laura Griner Hill, chair, Elizabeth Baker, Douglas Coatsworth, Kerry Green, chair, Mark Greenberg, Emily Hennessy, Willy Prado, Nate Riggs, [pending fall 2021 update]

Training Needs Assessment Taskforce: Sarah Chilenski, chair, Elizabeth Baker, Camille Cioffi, Brittany Cooper, Abby Fagan, Laura Griner Hill, Ashley Knapp, Leslie Leve, Keryn Pasch, Kelly Rulison

Knowledge Task Force: Celene Domitrovich, Tony Biglan, John Ernst, Kathy Etz, Elizabeth Robertson, Michael Mason, Zili Sloboda, Lisa Ulmer. Work completed.

Staff:  Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director

The President is an ex-officio member of all committees except for Nominations Committee

Send additions and corrections to jenniferlewis@preventionresearch.org

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