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Lisa Ulmer, MSW, ScD

Professor, Chair: Department of Community Health and Prevention

Phone: 215.762.7034
Email: lu25@drexel.edu

Professor Ulmer received a B.A. in Natural Sciences and an Sc.D. in Psychiatric Epidemiology, both from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.S.W in Family Mental Health from Catholic University of America. She has held a variety of professorships since 1988, and was Professor of Public Policy at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Southern University from 1999 until joining the School of Public Health at Drexel University in the summer of 2003. In 2002, she received the Teacher of the Year Award from the Nelson Mandela School. Publishing credits include articles in Prevention Science, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, American Journal of Community Psychology and several other journals, and chapters in Drug Abuse Prevention through Family Interventions, A Decade of Progress in Primary Prevention and other books.

Research Interests: Constructivist approach to graduate education in public health; social ecologic approach to preventing and reducing public health problems; culturally-tailored cognitive-behavioral interventions to promote wellness and prevent risk behaviors in underserved populations; evaluation design studies – faith based identification and modification of cardiovascular disease risk in African-American women; cancer risk reduction among high-risk populations; substance abuse prevention and treatment for underserved communities; school-based drug prevention; policy assessments/analysis – health inequities by race and class; poverty and substance use; environmental prevention policy for youth tobacco use; faculty development – training minority faculty in research methods. 

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