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
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