Kerry M. Green, Assistant Professor

Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Community Health.  Dr. Green brings to the department expertise in prevention science, with a particular focus on school-based interventions for children.  Her work focuses on development over the life course, and in particular how early family, school, and environmental influences, as well as behaviors (e.g., substance use) affect later health and well-being.  She is particularly interested in gender and racial differences in development.  Much of her research has been with low-income, urban community populations followed longitudinally, and thus health disparities is a key topic of her research.  She is skilled in advanced statistical techniques, in particular propensity score matching and latent variable modeling.

Education

• PhD - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Social & Behavioral Sciences
• MA - University of Maryland, College Park, Human Development
• BS - College of William and Mary, Psychology

Research Interests

• Prevention Science
• Life Course Development
• Urban Health
• Health Disparities
• Women's Health
• Substance Use and Abuse
• Criminal Behavior and Criminal Justice System Involvement
• Community-Based Samples

Citations

• Crum, R.M., Green, K.M., Storr, C.L., Chan, Y.F., Ialongo, N., Stuart, E.A., & Anthony, J.C. (in press). Depressed mood and alcohol involvement: Assessing associations from childhood through young adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry.
• Crum, R M, Juon, H, Green, K M, Robertson, J, Fothergill, K, Ensminger, M. (2006). Educational achievement and early school behavior as predictors of alcohol use disorders: 35-year follow-up of the Woodlawn Study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 67 (1), 75-85.
• Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., & Ensminger, M. (in press). Investigating the long-term influence of adolescent delinquency on drug use initiation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., Reisinger, H.S. & Ensminger , M.E. (in press). Long-term patterns of drug use among an urban African American cohort: The influence of gender and family. Journal of Urban Health.
• Ensminger, M.E., Juon, H.S., & Green, K.M. (2007). Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: Explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 89, 13-23.
• Fothergill, K.E., Ensminger, M.E., Green, K.M., Crum, R.M., Robertson, J. & Juon, H.S. (in press). The impact of early school behavior and educational achievement on adult drug use disorders: A prospective study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Green, K. M., & Ensminger, M. E. (2006). Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans. Developmental Psychology, 42(6), 1168-1178.
• Green, K. M., Ensminger, M. E., Robertson, J. A., & Juon, H. S. (2006). Impact of adult sons' incarceration on African American mothers' psychological distress. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68, 430-441.
• Killen, M, Pisacane (Green), K, Lee, J, & Ardila-Rey, A. (2001). Fairness or stereotypes?: Young children's priorities when evaluating group inclusion and exclusion. Developmental Psychology, 37 (5), 587-596.
• Slade, E. P., Stuart, E. A., Salkever, D. S., Karakus, M., Green, K. M., & Ialongo, N. (in press). Impacts of age of onset of substance use disorders on risk of adult incarceration among disadvantaged urban youth: A propensity score matching approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Stuart, E. & Green, K.M. (in press). Using full matching to estimate causal effects in non-experimental studies: examining the relationship between adolescent marijuana use and adult outcomes. Developmental Psychology.

Courses Taught

• HLTH 775   Program Planning & Evaluation

Current Advisees

• MPH
  • Suma Babu
  • Erinn Hurley
  • Jenna Miller
• PHD
  • Deliya Ryan