Research and Teaching Interests

John W. Graham
Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Southern California, 1983

Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Research Interests:
Adolescent, young adult, and college student health promotion and disease prevention. I have interest in prevention program development, but specialize in program evaluation and related research methods (survey and measurement design, missing data methods, structural equation modeling, detection and control of self_report bias).

I view myself as being a specialist in prevention program evaluation. I don't require that my Ph. D. students focus exclusively on that, but I do require that becoming skilled in program evaluation is an important part of what they want to accomplish in graduate school.

My stubstantive areas of interest include:
        Prevention of Alcohol-Related Harm in College Students
        Study of Exercise, Alcohol Use, and Tobacco Use in College Students
        Prevention of Substance Abuse in Adolescents

        Development and Adapting Statistical/Methodological Procedures Relating to Prevention Research

Teaching Interests:
Research methods (graduate and undergraduate). At Penn State, I have taught:  HDFS 506 (Program Evaluation); BBH 505 (Graduate Research Methods); BBH 521 (Structural Equation Modeling); BBH 310w (Undergraduate Research Methods); BBH 411 (advanced research methods).

Email Address:   jgraham@psu.edu

Office Address:  East 313 Health & Human Development Building

Mailing Address:  Department of Biobehavioral Health
                               East 315 Health & Human Development Building
                               The Pennsylvania State University
                               University Park, PA  16802

BBH Office Number:  (814) 863-7256
FAX Number:  (814) 863-7525