WashU faculty members whose research and academic interests include a focus on children and youth

WashU faculty members: To add your name as a Network Member, contact us on-line or by email at ChildrenYouthNetwork@wustl.edu.

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Eunhye Ahn, PhD

Brown School

  • Child Maltreatment
  • Child and Family Support
  • Data Science in the Public Sector
  • AI/ML in Social Services

Susan Appleton, JD

Law School

  • Legal issues of family, sex, & gender
  • Feminist legal theory
  • Reproductive rights and justice
  • Inequality

Adrienne Atzemis, MD

Pediatrics

  • Child abuse
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Abusive head trauma
  • Child abuse pediatrics education

Wendy Auslander, PhD

Brown School

  • Health Behaviors and Promotion
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Intervention Research Methods

Deanna Barch, PhD

Psychological & Brain Sciences

  • Effects of early adversity on early brain development and subsequent risk for mental health challenges
  • Cognitive, emotional and neural bases of risk for development of schizophrenia and depression

Abigail Barker, PhD

Brown School

  • Economic modeling
  • Food policy
  • Health insurance markets
  • Medicaid
  • Rural health policy

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD

Brown School

  • Black American Families
  • Race-Related Stress
  • Racial Justice in Learning Context
  • Risk & Resilience

Yao Chen, PhD

Neuroscience

  • Altered neuromodulation in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
  • Learning and sleep
  • Marbach-Schaaf Syndrome

Yixin Chen, PhD

Computer Science & Engineering

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Data mining
  • Optimization
  • Computational biomedicine

Joseph Dougherty, PhD

Genetics

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorder
  • Transcription Regulation
  • Translation Regulation
  • Behavior

Nikki Doughty

Institute for School Partnership

  • Student outcomes
  • Educational inequalities
  • Trauma-informed learning practices

Brett Drake, PhD

Brown School

  • Child maltreatment epidemiology
  • Child protection and child protective practice
  • Application of big data to social problems
  • Racial disproportionality

Alexis Duncan, MPH, PhD

Brown School

  • Psychiatric epidemiology
  • Obesity and eating disorders
  • Substance use and related disorders
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Behavior genetics

Sarah England, PhD

Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Preterm birth
  • Sleep and circadian rhythms
  • Pregnancy and maternal-fetal health
  • Disparities in maternal-fetal health

Ian Fillmore, PhD

Economics

  • Labor Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Economics of Education