Education
PhD, Public Health from Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2004
MA, Human Development from University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1999
BS, Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1995
Courses Taught
HLTH 106: Drug Use and Abuse
HLTH 300: Biostatistics for Public Health Practice
HLTH 711: Advanced Research Methods in Health
Research Focus
- Life course development of urban African American men and women (childhood through adulthood)
- Interrelationship between mental health, substance use, crime, and physical health
- Prevention Science and causal inference with observational data
Selected Publications (within last 10 years)
Green, K.M., Fothergill, K.E., Robertson, J.A., Zebrak, K.A., Banda, D., Ensminger, M.E. (accepted 4/18/12). Early life predictors of adult depression in a community cohort of urban African Americans. Journal of Urban Health.
Green, K.M., Zebrak, K. A., Robertson, J., Fothergill, K.E., & Ensminger, M.E. (in press). Interrelationship of substance use and psychological distress over the life course among a cohort of urban African Americans. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Green, K.M., Doherty, E.E., Fothergill, K.E., & Ensminger, M.E. (in press). Marriage trajectories and health risk behaviors throughout adulthood among urban African Americans. Journal of Family Issues.
Green, K. M., Doherty, E. E., Zebrak,* K. A. & Ensminger, M. E. (2011). The association between adolescent drinking and adult violence: Evidence from a longitudinal study of urban African Americans. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72 (5).
Green, K.M., Doherty, E.E., Reisinger, H., Chilcoat, H., & Ensminger, M.E. (2010). Social integration in young adulthood and the subsequent onset of substance use and disorders among a community population of urban African Americans. Addiction, 105, 484-493.
Green, K.M., Doherty, E.E., Stuart, E.A., & Ensminger, M.E. (2010). Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal involvement in adulthood? Evidence from a multiwave longitudinal study of urban African Americans. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 112, 117-125.
Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., & Ensminger, M. (2008). Investigating the long-term influence of adolescent delinquency on drug use initiation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 93, 72-84.
Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., Reisinger, H.S. & Ensminger, M.E. (2008). Long-term patterns of drug use among an urban African American cohort: The influence of gender and family. Journal of Urban Health, 85, 250-267.
Stuart, E. & Green, K.M. (2008). Using full matching to estimate causal effects in non-experimental studies: examining the relationship between adolescent marijuana use and adult outcomes. Developmental Psychology, 44, 395-406.
Crum, R.M., Green, K.M., Storr, C.L., Chan, Y.F., Ialongo, N., Stuart, E.A., & Anthony, J.C. (2008). Depressed mood and alcohol involvement: Assessing associations from childhood through young adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(6), 702-712.
Ensminger, M.E., Juon, H.S., & Green, K.M. (2007). Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 89, 13-23.
Green, K. M., Ensminger, M. E., Robertson, J. A., & Juon, H. S. (2006). Impact of adult sons’ incarceration on African American mothers’ psychological distress. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 430-441.
Green, K. M., & Ensminger, M. E. (2006). Adult social behavioral effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use among African Americans. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1168-1178.
Recent Grants (within last 7 years)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), Substance Use and Psychological Problems Among African Americans into Midlife, Principal Investigator
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH), Comorbid Patterns with Alcohol Use Disorders, Co-Investigator
National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIH), Drug Abuse and Crime Across the Life Course in an African American Population, Co-Investigator
National Institute on Aging (NIH), Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women, Co-Investigator
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH), Internalizing Symptoms and Alcohol Involvement, Co-Investigator
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), Co-Investigator
National Institute of Child Health and Development, Value of Education-Paths to Well Being over Life Course, Co-Investigator
National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIH), Gender Differences in Consequences of Teenage Drug Use, Principal Investigator
Career Highlights
- 2011 Recipient, Leda Amick Wilson Mentoring Award, University of Maryland School of Public Health
- Received first R01 as Principal Investigator in 2009
- 2009 Recipient, George F. Kramer Practitioner of the Year Award, University of Maryland School of Public Health
- Recipient, NIH Loan Repayment Program since 2007
- Member of Society for Prevention Research, including Member of Training Committee, Abstract Review Committee and Early Career Prevention Network
- 2004-2006, NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Prevention Research Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health, Advisor: Nicholas Ialongo
- Member, Delta Omega, National Honor Society in Public Health since 2004
- 1996-2000, Researcher at the American Institutes for Research
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