Melissa Peskin, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair
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Department

Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences

Research Interests

Adolescent Health
Behavioral/Mental Health
Program Evaluation
Maternal and Child Health
Injury and Violence
Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology

Biography

Dr. Melissa Peskin is an epidemiologist and behavioral scientist with over 15 years of experience conducting research focused on the determinants of adolescent health risk behaviors related to sexual risk-taking and violence, including bullying, aggression, and dating violence. She also has extensive experience designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs for youth. She has been PI or co-PI on several large randomized controlled trials to develop, evaluate and disseminate these programs. Examples of programs include “It’s Your Game… Keep it Real”, an effective adolescent sexual health program, “It’s Your Game-Tech”, the Internet version of It’s Your Game, and “Me and You: Building Healthy Relationships”, an effective healthy relationships and dating violence prevention program for middle school students. She was also PI of a study to develop an online decision support system to help school districts adopt and implement evidence-based sexual health programs.

Contact

Email: [email protected] 
Phone: +1 (713) 500-9759
Fax: +1 (713) 500-9602