Assistant Research Professor
Rutgers University School of Social Work, United States
Cory Morton, Ph.D., M.S.W. is a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work’s Center for Prevention Science. Prior to joining Rutgers in 2021, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire’s College of Health and Human Services. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Work from Rutgers in 2012 and M.S.W. from East Tennessee State University in 2007. Dr. Morton’s research focuses on how to structure communities to support individual and family well-being through an investigation of how various features of the built environment are associated with substance-related harms. His recent work has focused on documenting the rising alcohol sales during the COVID-19 pandemic and using questions posed to substance use experts to develop youth-focused prevention curricula. He has over 10 years’ experience conducting program evaluations in the fields of child welfare and substance misuse prevention. Dr. Morton has worked as an evaluator on the New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership; University of New Hampshire and the NH Division of Children, Youth, and Families’ Title IV-E educational partnership, and the NJ Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. Dr. Morton has published 20 articles on topics relevant to child welfare and substance misuse prevention.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM