Child and Family Health

Chair: Yelena Wu, PhD
Co-Chair: Danae Dinkel, PhD
Outgoing Chair: Helena Laroche, MD
 

Description/Mission Statement

The Child and Family Health Special Interest Group (SIG) is

  • An interdisciplinary forum for SBM members concerned with the well-being of children, adolescents, young adults, and families.
     
  • SIG interests:
    • bridging biological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social functioning of children and adolescents
    • understanding and intervening on the contextual, social, and ecological influences of child health and development
       
  • SIG research and service topics:
    • promote maternal and child health
    • improve pregnancy and birth outcomes
    • prevent childhood illness and injury
    • foster family adjustment to chronic illnesses and physical conditions that affect the family unit
       
  • SIG aims:
    • advance and disseminate knowledge
    • foster professional networks to produce high-quality collaborative research
    • enhance the health and well-being of children, adolescents and families
       

Advisory Board Members

  • Laura Caccavale, PhD, LCP
  • Angela Caldwell, PhD, OTR/L, CLT
  • Carolyn Bates, PhD
  • Lisette Jacobson, PhD, MPA, MA
  • Danae Dinkel, PhD 
  • Calissa Leslie-Miller, MS
  • David Fedele, PhD, ABPP
  • Madison Weinstock, PhD
  • Alyssa Button, PhD
  • Keith Brazendale, PhD
  • Jennifer Mandelbaum, PhD, MPH
  • Melanie Bean, PhD
  • Lindsay Stager, MA

Advisory Board Consultants

  • Nataliya Zelikovsky, PhD
  • Pam Behrman, PhD
  • Biswadeep Dhar, PhD

 

SIG Subcommittees

1. Webinars

The CHF SIG Webinar sub-committee develops and implements 1-2 webinars a year. This involves meeting with the committee to plan the webinars, solicit expert volunteers to contribute to webinars, coordinate with SBM leadership on hosting the webinar and looking for opportunities to network with other SIGs.

Contacts:
David Fedele, Ph.D., ABPP dfedele@phhp.ufl.edu
Carolyn R. Bates, PhD cbates4@kumc.edu

2022-23 Webinars:
Dyadic Analyses in Behavioral Research: An Introduction to Methodology and Application
Using Social Media to Advocate for Women, Children, and Families

 

2. Healthy Living/ Outlook articles

This subcommittee focuses on writing:

  • Healthy living articles which are aimed toward the public and proudly displayed on the SBM website.  We must write at least one but we often write more.
  • Outlook articles: An article for the SBM outlook newsletter aimed at our peers. We write one a year.

Both are short and we usually write in teams so you are never alone. No experience necessary! Great for twitter feeds. 

Contacts:
Lindsay Stager MA  lmstager@uab.edu
Helena Laroche MD hhlaroche@cmh.edu

CFH SIG Healthy Living articles

CFH SIG Outlook articles

 

3. Policy Briefs

This subcommittee develops position statements related to current policy decisions. This includes developing actionable recommendations for policymakers, forming authorship teams to draft policy briefs, seeking endorsements from related organizations, and disseminating published policy statements on social media and to legislative aids.

Contacts:
Elizabeth Adams, PhD; elizabeth-adams@sc.edu
Pam Behrman, PhD; pam.behrman@mountsaintvincent.edu
Lisette Jacobson, PhD; ljacobson@kumc.edu
Keith Brazendale, PhD; keith.brazendale@ucf.edu
 

2022 Briefs
Support Policies to Increase Nutrient-Dense Food Access across Federal Food Assistance Programs
Permanently Increase WIC’s Cash Value Benefit for Fruit and Vegetable Purchases
Modernize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to Reduce Food Access Inequities

 

4. Social Media

The CFH social media sub-committee focuses on promoting research and educational opportunities for our SIG members.

Contacts:
Danae Dinkel, PhD dmdinkel@unomaha.edu


Follow the CFH SIG on Twitter @SBMChildFamSIG

 

 

Recent Award Winners

Student Abstract Award

Danyel Smith
Stretch your SNAP: Stakeholder Perspectives of an Innovative HealthyIncentive Program (SNAP+) in Arlington, VA

Mary Quattlebaum
Systematic Review of Family-Based Interventions IntegratingResilience Components to Improve Black Youth Health Outcomes
 

Member Abstract Award

Stephen J. Lepore, PhD
Reducing child tobacco smoke exposure by increasing smoking urge coping skills and protective behaviors in mothers who smoke
 

Early Career Diversity Award

Amy Egbert, PhD
Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut
Her research aims to identify how individual- andenvironmental-level factors interact to contribute toobesity and dysregulated eating in youth.

 

Child and Family Health Lifetime Achievement Award

Dawn Wilson PhD
Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Group at the University of South Carolina
President of SBM in 2014
Her research focuses on developing theory-based interventions for health promotion and disease prevention in low-income, ethnic minority adolescents and their families. 

 

SIG Chair History

2005    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2006    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2007    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2008    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2009    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2010    Melissa Alderfer, PhD
2011    Kenneth Tercyak, PhD
2012    Kenneth Tercyak, PhD
2013    Kenneth Tercyak, PhD
2014    Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD
2015    Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD
2016    Nataliya Zelikovsky, PhD
2017    Pamela Behrman, PhD
2018    Lisette Jacobson, PhD
2019    Danielle Wiscenka, PhD
2020    Sabrina Ford, PhD
2021    Melanie Bean, PhD
2022    Elizabeth Adams, PhD
2023    Helena Laroche MD

 

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