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Primarily my research is grounded in three public health domains: social epidemiology, prevention science, and psychiatric epidemiology. Studies focus on two major areas: (1) violent, traumatic experiences and the ways that they affect children/youth and those who work with traumatized populations, and (2) the social context of high-risk behaviors among adolescents (the latter often being sequelae of the first.) One main area of expertise is multilevel methods, where I utilize neighborhood-level analyses for insight into both etiology and prevention strategies. Another main area of expertise is community-based participatory research methodology, from systematic needs assessments to multilevel research designs, to measures development, to implementation, to analyses and dissemination. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, my work, strongly influenced by Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory of Human Development, has focused on identifying neighborhood-level resources that can be mobilized to decrease levels of violence both in families and in communities. My current works includes a national study of vicarious trauma where in collaboration with several national organizations, we are creating an online, evidence-based toolkit for organizations of victim services providers and first responders to violent events to use to care for their workers. My work also includes planning community-level preventive interventions for child maltreatment and youth violence.NCBI Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/beth.molnar.1/bibliography/public/

Listed skills include Public Health, Epidemiology, Qualitative Research, Research, and 42 others.