PCH: Faculty

Jerald R. Herting, PhD Research Associate Professor Psychosocial & Community Health Box 358732 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-8732 Email Address: herting@u.washington.edu

Dr. Herting has over 12 years of experience conducting research and evaluation in the areas of adolescent drug and alcohol use, mental health, delinquency, and educational achievement. His work includes survey design, instrument development, and alternative statistical models for evaluating program effectiveness. Dr. Herting's recent work has focused on the evaluation of school-based interventions to prevent dropout, suicide risk, substance use/abuse; and of methods to identify high-risk populations for indicated intervention programs.

Related health and demography interests include teenage fertility, contraceptive use, and the role health services play in the adoption of family planning and other health behaviors. Dr. Herting specializes in issues relevant to adolescence (health, alcohol/drug use, mental health, education), social demography (fertility, contraceptive use, adolescent fertility), advanced quantitative methods (structural equation models, loglinear models, demographic methods, measurement, survey research), and evaluation research.

Dr. Herting's CV at the Community of Science Web site

Links

Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program

Current Projects

• Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications of Co-morbidity  (Co-Investigator)
• Effect of Social Context on Adolescent Distress (Key Personnel)
• Emergence: Co-Occurring Depression/Externalizing Problems (Co-Investigator)
• Trajectories of physical activity in post-menopausal women: Influence of sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle behaviors and health status (Co-Investigator)