Kristina Jackson
Associate Professor of Community Health (Research):
Bio Med Alcohol & Addiction
Phone: +1 401 863 6617
Kristina_Jackson@brown.edu
• Apply advanced multivariate quantitative methods (e.g., latent state-trait modeling, latent transition analysis, latent class analysis, mixture modeling) to large-scale social science data sets
• Examine alcohol-tobacco comorbidity
• Characterize developmental course of alcohol use in late adolescence and young adulthood
• Identify critical background and dynamic risk factors and comorbid conditions associated with heavy drinking
• Develop psychosocial models of health behavior
Biography
Kristina M. Jackson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Community Health at Brown University. She received her graduate training in applied social psychology at Arizona State University, with an emphasis on quantitative methods and their application to health-related behaviors through analysis of both epidemiological and experimental intervention data. Upon graduation, she took a position as a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Kenneth J. Sher at the University of Missouri – Columbia (MU), where she developed interests in the application of quantitative methods to the study of alcohol use and dependence, the study of alcohol-tobacco comorbidity, and examination of the developmental course of drinking among adolescents and young adults. She continued on at MU as a Research Assistant Professor for the next six years. Dr. Jackson joined the faculty at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University in 2005.
Dr. Jackson currently holds a five-year K01 grant from NIAAA entitled "Longitudinal Methodology and Alcohol Use." The goals of this grant are to characterize developmental courses of conjoint drinking and smoking among young adults and to explore the relations between alcohol use, tobacco use, mood, and stress using daily process data. She was recently awarded an R21 secondary data analysis grant from NIAAA to explore the onset and progression of drinking among adolescents.
She has also received another R21 grant from NIAAA and a grant from the Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation to apply prospective analytic models in order to resolve the nature of alcohol and tobacco comorbidity using secondary data. She serves as a member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB) Study Section at NIH. In addition, she is the 2004 recipient of the Young Investigator's award from the Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam and is the 2006 recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Interests
Kristina M. Jackson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Community Health at Brown University. She received her graduate training in applied social psychology at Arizona State University, with an emphasis on quantitative methods and their application to health-related behaviors through analysis of both epidemiological and experimental intervention data. Upon graduation, she took a position as a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Kenneth J. Sher at the University of Missouri – Columbia (MU), where she developed interests in the application of quantitative methods to the study of alcohol use and dependence, the study of alcohol-tobacco comorbidity, and examination of the developmental course of drinking among adolescents and young adults. She continued on at MU as a Research Assistant Professor for the next six years. Dr. Jackson joined the faculty at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University in 2005.
Dr. Jackson currently holds a five-year K01 grant from NIAAA entitled "Longitudinal Methodology and Alcohol Use." The goals of this grant are to characterize developmental courses of conjoint drinking and smoking among young adults and to explore the relations between alcohol use, tobacco use, mood, and stress using daily process data. She has also received an R21 grant from NIAAA and a grant from the Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation to apply prospective analytic models in order to resolve the nature of alcohol and tobacco comorbidity using secondary data. She serves as a member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB) Study Section at NIH. In addition, she is the 2004 recipient of the Young Investigator's award from the Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam and is the 2006 Young Investigator Awardee of the Research Society of Alcoholism.
Degrees
PhD
Awards
2004 Awardee of the Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam (IVO)
2006 Young Investigator Awardee of the Research Society of Alcoholism
Affiliations
American Psychological Association (1995-2009)
Division 5 member (1996-1997, 1999-2009)
Division 38 member (1996-1997, 1999-2009)
Division 50 member (1999, 2000-2009)
American Public Health Association (1999-2009)
Midwestern Psychological Association (1998)
Research Society on Alcoholism (1998-2009)
Society for Prevention Research (1999-2001)
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2006-2009)
Society for the Study of Addiction (2006)
Western Psychological Association (1995-1997)
Funded Research
Principal Investigator, "Initiation and Progression through Early Drinking Milestones in Underage Drinkers," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA16838) ($3,677,696 total costs, 2008-2013)
Principal Investigator, "Underage Alcohol Use: Sequence and Progression of Early Drinking Milestones," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21 AA016524) ($391,687 total costs, 2007-2009)
Principal Investigator, "Longitudinal Methodology and Alcohol Use," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K01 13938) ($567,974 total costs, 2003-2008)
Principal Investigator, "Prospective Examination of Alcohol-Tobacco Comorbidity," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21 AA012383) ($154,025 total costs, 1999-2001).
Co-Investigator (Kenneth J. Sher, Principal Investigator), "A Prospective Study of Offspring of Alcoholics," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R37 AA007231) ($1,701,652 total costs, 1997-2002).
Principal Investigator, "Unraveling Alcohol and Tobacco Use Comorbidity: Secondary Analysis of Prospective Data," Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation ($29,005 total costs, 1999).
Principal Investigator, "Intervention to Encourage Sun-Protective Behavior in Adolescents." NIMH-supported Program for Prevention Research, Arizona State University ($1,940 total costs, 1996).
Principal Investigator, "A Meta-Analytic Review of Psychosocial Interventions to Prevent Skin Cancer." NIMH-supported Program for Prevention Research, Arizona State University ($425 total costs, 1995).
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