Designing eLearning courses for educators supporting students with autism or data entry/analysis
We are looking for additional team members who can assist with further developing our library of eLearning courses geared towards teachers of students with autism or to help abstract and clean data on teacher use of evidence-based practices and their experiences in teaching.
Second, our team has collected data for more than a decade on teachers experiences and their use of best practices. We are in the process of abstracting and cleaning data from multiple sources to study the experiences of teachers and to examine sustainment of practices and are looking to acquire students who have experience using Python.
Understanding diet quality, food insecurity, and health in an underserved Philadelphia neighborhood
We are partnering with The Community Grocer, a local nonprofit market/grocer that aims to raise the health of the surrounding area, to assess the needs of the community prior to their launch.
Research Assistant(s) for Primate Video Data Collection
Dr. Jones is looking for 1-2 reliable, collaborative, and organized students to assist with a project examining gorilla tool use. Students will learn to identify individual gorillas housed (or previously housed) at Zoo Atlanta, and use behavioral coding software (Noldus Observer) and will collect data from video footage of gorillas using tools for a few hours a week. In addition, students will attend regular meetings with Dr. Jones, and may be asked to read related articles, and complete related tasks/assignments.
Mentorship for students interested in Reproductive Psychiatry
I have no ongoing research but am interested in mentoring motivated students curious about reproductive psychiatry and women's mental health.
Opening Pathways to Community-Led Transformation in Latinx communities
Participatory action research (PAR) carried out by Latinx community members in Norristown and UPenn students and professors to explore topics of interest in the community including post-secondary readiness, mental health, and violence.
Behavioral and Neural Markers of Psychopathology Risk in Early Childhood
KIds NeuroDevelopment (KIND) Lab is trying to understand the cognitive and emotional factors that put young children at risk for later mental health disorders
Curricular Alignment for 2- to 4-year College Transfer
There are a number of barriers that make it hard for community college students to transfer to four-year colleges. In this project, we will study one: degree requirements that are not well aligned across colleges.
Research in health economics and policy
Eric T. Roberts, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is a health economist who studies the delivery and financing of care in U.S. public insurance programs and health care delivery systems. Dr. Roberts’ research program encompasses three intersecting areas: 1) health insurance for low-income individuals with Medicare and Medicaid (the “dual eligibles”), 2) Medicare and Medicaid managed care, and 3) the effects of payment and delivery system reform on health care disparities. His research uses simulation and econometric techniques for causal inference to inform policymakers and practitioners about the effects of insurance, payment, and delivery system reform policies on the care of vulnerable populations.
Behavioral health integration, suicide prevention, integration of social care into health systems
1) develop, test, adapt, and refine evidence-based preventive interventions that improve child, adolescent, and family well-being, with a particular focus on reducing youth suicide prevention in settings across the entire health care continuum, and 2) leverage the EHR as a tool to both detect unmet social and behavioral health needs and evaluate the impact of evidence-based social care and behavioral health interventions on youth health outcomes.
Family Sociology and Family Demography
I am a sociologist and family demographer. I study how families change through events like childbearing, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and widowhood and the consequences of these changes for adults, children, and communities. I am particularly interested in how family life reflects and reproduces social and economic inequality. I use quantitative methods and data visualizations to answer research questions. Most of my work is focused on the contemporary and historical United States.