Focus Area

Emma Adam

School of Education and Social Policy

Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Childhood Development, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Poverty, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Sleep, Stress

Jessica Lee Schleider

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences

Field: Psychology, Public Health

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Clinical Research, Depression and Anxiety, Health Disparities, Mental Health, Psychological Counseling, Therapy and Counseling

Leah J. Welty

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine - Biostatistics

Field: Data Science, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Data Bias, Data Science, Data Visualization, Health Disparities, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Statistics and probability

Vijay Mittal

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Psychology

Field: Psychology

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Childhood Development, Mental Health, Schizophrenia

Ellen Wartella

School of Communication

Professor of Psychology

Field: Human Development, Psychology

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Childhood Development, Child Psychology, Obesity, STEM Education

Nia Heard-Garris

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Field: Pediatrics

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Cardiovascular Health, Childhood Development, Child Psychology, Discrimination, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Health Disparities, Pediatric Illness, Race and Ethnicity, Stress

Dr. Meghan O'Neill

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Field: Human Development, Neurology, Pediatrics

Focus Areas: ADD and ADHD, Autism, Childhood Development, Childhood Education, Child Psychology, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Language Learning and Processing

Elizabeth Norton

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, School of Communication

Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Field: Communications Sciences and Disorders, Human Development, Linguistics, Medical Social Sciences, Neurology, Psychology

Focus Areas: Autism, Childhood Development, Childhood Education, Child Psychology, Communication Skills, Infant Health, Language Learning and Processing, Neuroscience

Sheehan D. Fisher

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at The Graduate School, Northwestern University

Field: Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Sociology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Child Psychology, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Gender Diversity and Equality, Men’s Health, Mental Health, Postpartum Health, Race and Ethnicity, Women's Health

Claudia Haase

School of Education and Social Policy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and (by courtesy) Psychology

Field: Aging, Human Development, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Mental Health, Parenting , Physiology, Social Psychology, Stress

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