Risk Behaviors
Bauer, Brian
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions
Beach, Steven R.H.
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu
Cacciatore, Michael
Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Advertising & Public Relations
website | mcacciat@uga.edu
Research Interests include science communication, risk communication, and framing
Fazlul, Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics
Fisher, Sycarah
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sycarah.fisher@uga.edu
Research Interests include substance use, minorities, African Americans, school mental health, and implementation science
Galvan, Thania
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | thania.galvan@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Mental health disparities; Latinx youth & families; Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways
Geier, Charles
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | Charles.Geier@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Goodie, Adam
Professor and Department Head, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | goodie@uga.edu
Research Interests include decision making, gambling, personality, and cognition
Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects
Jin, Yan
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Public Relations
website | yanjin@uga.edu
Research Interests include crisis, risk, conflict, misinformation, emotion, and social media
Kogan, Steve
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2021 OIBR Mentoring Legacy Award Recipient
website | smkogan@uga.edu
Research Interests include Black youth, adolescent development, mental health, and racial discrimination
Lapegna, Pablo
Associate Professor, Sociology
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | plapegna@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Environmental and rural sociology; Social movements; Political sociology; Health
McNulty, Thomas
Associate Professor, Sociology
website | tmcnulty@uga.edu
Research Interests include race/ethnicity, communities & crime, and inequality
Muilenburg, Jessica
Professor and Interim Department Head, Health Promotion & Behavior
website | jlm@uga.edu
Research Interests include risky behaviors, adolescents, young adults, and tobacco use
Nowak, Glen
Professor, Advertising Public Relations
Co-director, Grady College Center for Health & Risk Communications
website | gnowak@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, infectious and vaccine preventable disease communication
Orpinas, Pamela
Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior
Distinguished Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | porpinas@uga.edu
Research Interests include preventing family violence, dating aggression, and bullying; improving the lives of immigrant and underserved populations; identifying developmental trajectories of children and youth.
Simons, Leslie Gordon
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lgsimons@uga.edu
Research Interests include family, crime, and intimate partner violence
Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Assistant Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu
Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition