Association of Parental Incarceration With Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes of Young Adults

Developmental epidemiology applies the research methods of findings of developmental science to epidemiology--the study of patterns of disease distribution in time and space. Developmental epidemiology can cover the life span, but my own work concentrates on childhood and adolescence. I study change and continuity in psychiatric disorders, in the context of change and continuity in the risk factors for those disorders. An important application of the work of the Developmental

Beth Gifford is an associate research professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, a core faculty member of the Center for Child and Family Policy and the Margolis Center for Health Policy, and leads the Social and Economic pillar of the Children’s Health and Discovery Institute. She leads a multidisciplinary research team that examines the<a href="htt

Megan Golonka is a research scientist with the Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk and Resiliency (C-StARR) in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. She is also affiliated with the Center for Child and Family Policy, where she teaches the cornerstone course for the Child Policy Research Certificate Program. She is also a member of the Child Maltreatment Prevention research team in the Center for Child and Family Policy.  Her areas of interest include adolescent risk behavior