Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD
Principal Investigator, Project Director and Administration Core Director Regent’s professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
From 2008 to 2013, she was a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa, where she led the Tulsa Children’s Project, a highly integrated set of interventions to reduce the effects of intergenerational poverty and adversity. With Dr. Amanda Morris, she is the co-author of Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, published in 2019 by APA Press, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Adversity and Resilience Science (Springer), with the first volume published in March, 2020. She also co-authored Raising a Resilient Child in a World of Adversity: Effective Parenting for Every Family which was released in November 2023. |
Research Project Leaders
Internal Advisory Committee
Darren Akins, PhD
Associate Dean for Research &
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Publications |
Chris Benge, BA
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External Advisory Committee |
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Judy Weber, PhD
EAC Member Director of NIH-funded Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention, Arkansas Children's Research Institute
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/College of Medicine/Dept of Pediatrics Co-Director, Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute |