Kaitlin  Piper

Kaitlin Piper, MPH is a NRSA-funded PhD candidate at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral health interventions for adolescents, particularly for adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. She specializes in adolescent health issues (including trauma/mental health, substance use, and sexual behavior), maternal and child health, family-centered behavioral health programs, and juvenile justice-involved populations. As a methodologist, she has expertise in implementation science methodology, advanced quantitative and qualitative methods, and systems-based methods, including agent-based simulation modeling and configurational comparative methods. She was recently awarded a NIH/NIDA F31 pre-doctoral fellowship for her dissertation research, where she is collaborating with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice to study the implementation of behavioral health services for justice-involved youth and families. She is also the PI of two R25 subawards, where she is studying the impacts of family trauma on youth justice system involvement.

In addition to the NIH fellowship, over the course of her career, she was awarded 9 different competitive research fellowships including the Criminal Justice Research Training Fellowship at Brown University, Center for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Fellowship at Emory University, Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Research Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship at University of Pittsburgh, and the Livingston Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Achievements. She has over 22 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Health Affairs, Journal of Adolescent Health, Implementation Science Communications, and Behavioral Medicine; as well as over 50 presentations at national and international scientific conferences.

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