SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Monica Oxford, PhD Research Associate Professor Family and Child Nursing 357920 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Email Address: mloxford@u.washington.edu Monica Oxford, Ph.D. is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Child Nursing and the Executive Director of NCAST Programs. Dr. Oxford’s research focuses on early parenting and child developmental outcomes for vulnerable families living in challenging environments. Dr. Oxford’s interest is in how context, parenting, and child characteristics combine to inform particular patterns of child outcomes and how intervention services promote both parent and child wellbeing. Dr. Oxford is the principal investigator of an NIH grant titled “Intersecting Ecologies of Risk” to address the interaction between family, school, child, and contextual risk as they relate to early child developmental outcomes; she is also a co-principal investigator of an NIH funded grant titled “Infant Mental Health in Foster Care” which is an intervention study of the impact of the Promoting First Relationships Program on child welfare outcomes. Dr. Oxford is also the Executive Director of NCAST Programs, an organization that develops and disseminates research based programs and trainings to provide nurturing environments for young children; and the Associate Director of Promoting First Relationships, a prevention program dedicated to promoting children's social-emotional development through responsive, nurturing caregiver-child relationships. Easy to Print Version   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195