For 25 years, the Institute for Child Health Policy has brought together a multidisciplinary faculty from the University of Florida to conduct innovative and rigorous science to promote the health of children, adolescents, and young adults. Its primary focus is examining factors that contribute to disparities in health and health care outcomes for minority and underserved children and youth and developing strategies to address these issues.
There will be a seminar and reception on October 22, 2013, with Invited ICHP Distinguished Lecturer Nicholas Ialongo, PhD in honor of ICHP’s 25th Anniversary.
Dr. Ialongo’s seminar entitled “Two Generations of Elementary School-based Universal Preventive Intervention Trials in Baltimore” will focus on the outcomes of two trials that evaluated, intervened, and followed-up on urban, economically disadvantaged African Americans in elementary schools who exhibited aggressive/disruptive behavior, attention/concentration problems, and poor academic achievement in early elementary school. The primary goals of the trials’ intervention were the promotion of educational and occupational success and the prevention of substance abuse/dependence, antisocial behavior, and depression and anxiety in adolescence and adulthood. Dr. Ialongo will discuss the variation in intervention response and the implications the results present for education, substance abuse, and mental health policy.
Dr. Ialongo has been trianed as a child and family clinical psychologist. He currently serves as PI on the 20-year follow-up of the 2nd generation Johns Hopkins Preventive Intervention Research Center (JHU PIRC) trial and Co-PI on the follow-up of the 1st generation (Cohorts 1 and 2) JHU PIRC intervention trial. He was also the PI on the recently completed Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded trial of PATHS to PAX, a combined universal preventive intervention in Baltimore City Public Schools.
Dr. Ialongo is a professor in the Department of Mental Health and the director for the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Please join us!
