WashU faculty members whose research and academic interests include a focus on children and youth
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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
Dennis Barbour, MD, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
- Machine learning methods for rapidly and thoroughly evaluating perception and cognition
- Auditory processing
- Medical informatics
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
Kevin Black, MD
Psychiatry
- Innovative brain imaging methods to study movement disorders including Tourette syndrome, effects of dopamine on the brain, and how the precise location of deep brain stimulation (DBS) contributes to its clinical effects
Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD
Brown School
- Black American Families
- Race-Related Stress
- Racial Justice in Learning Context
- Risk & Resilience
Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD
Psychiatry
- Mental health epidemiology
- Understanding how policy and social media shape health risk behaviors of young people
- Mobile app interventions that support individuals with mental health-related behaviors such as alcohol use, vaping, eating disorders, and depression
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