MICHIGAN
PREVENTION
RESEARCH
CENTER
Center Research Faculty and Staff
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Research faculty and staff from a number of departments and schools across the University of
Michigan as well as other universities are involved in MPRC research. A listing of researchers is
given below.
Faculty
- Richard H. Price, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Research Scientist, and MPRC
Program Director, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
- Amiram Vinokur, Ph.D., Research Scientist, MPRC Associate Director, Survey
Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
- Robert Caplan, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Director, Industrial Organizational
Psychology Program, George Washington University
- Sandra Danziger, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of
Michigan
- Sheldon Danziger, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work & Public Policy, Director of the
Research and Training Program on Urban Poverty, University of Michigan
- Edward Gramlich, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Director, Institute for Public Policy
Studies, University of Michigan
- George Howe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Research Scientist, Center for Family
Studies, George Washington University
- James House, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, Director of Survey
Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
- Roderick Little, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public
Health, University of Michigan
- Daphna Oyserman, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan
- Arnold Sameroff, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Developmental Psychology Program,
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
- Amanda Sonnega, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan
This is a multidisciplinary team of researchers coming from the disciplines of biostatistics,
psychology, sociology, economics, epidemiology, social work, and public health. The
substantive knowledge and methodological expertise represented in this group of scientists is
quite broad and includes expertise in psychosocial epidemiology (Kessler and House) the
economics of poverty and the economics of benefit/cost analysis (Danziger and Gramlich),
biostatistics (Little) social psychological and developmental perspectives on prevention
(Vinokur, Caplan, Howe, Oyserman, Price, and Sameroff) expertise on organization behavior in
human service systems (Caplan, Saavedra, and Price) and expertise in the development and
behavior change, stress and coping in individuals and families (Vinokur, Howe, Caplan, and
Price).
Staff
These staff members provide critical administrative, technical and logistical support to all MPRC
research, training and dissemination activities. They are a vital human resource supporting the
MPRC program.
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