Associate Professor
University of Michigan, United States
Cristina B. Bares is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan Social Work where she is co-lead of the Global Social Work Pathway, faculty affiliate at the UM Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, the UM’s Social Research Center, and UM’s Rogel Cancer Center. Dr. Bares is a developmental psychologist with training in behavioral genetics and advanced statistical modeling and has long been interested in the contextual and psychological factors that lead to variation in human behavior. In her research she employs multiple quantitative methodologies to examine the biological, psychological and contextual determinants of child and adolescent health with a particular focus on adolescent substance use initiation and progression using large-scale datasets from the United States and Latin America. Currently, Bares studies the genetically-mediated risk factors leading to problems of anxiety, depression and substance use in adolescence while accounting for important psychological and environmental risk factors. In multiple roles she mentors underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students in pursuing research and biomedical careers through initiatives such as the University of Michigan’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training Program, the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program on addiction research.
Disclosure information not submitted.
Saturday, November 12, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM