Upcoming Events
This page is focused on publicly-accessible events related to the CTN and/or hosted by NIDA, Nodes, CTN study teams, or CTN SIGs and committees. We also list some major national/international conferences of particular interest to the Network.
For more national/international conferences and events, visit NIDA’s Meetings & Events page and this list from the journal Addiction.
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CTN Youth SIG Webinar: Scaling Out Evidence-Based Interventions Through Primary Care Settings: the PAAS Program
November 15 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
The CTN Youth SIG is pleased to invite you to an upcoming presentation/webinar:
Scaling out evidence-based interventions through primary care settings: A Case Study of the Pathways for African Americans (PAAS) Program
Presenter:
Velma McBride Murry, PhD
Lois Autrey Betts Endowed Chair
Co-Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program for Health Equity Research
Distinguished University Professor, Departments of Health Policy & Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
This presentation will highlight the role of primary care setting as a conduit for evidence-based intervention access for families. In addition, attention will be given the need to focus on system level interventions to reduce the need for families and youth to be “resilient.”
About the presenter: Dr. Velma McBride Murry holds the Lois Autrey Betts Endowed Chair, previously held an appointed position of Associate Provost, Research and Innovation, currently serves as Co-Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program for Health Equity Research (PHER), and is a University Distinguished Professor in Departments of Health Policy [Vanderbilt School of Medicine] and Human and Organizational Development [Peabody College]. She is Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence and current President of The International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies. McBride Murry is one of the 100 elected members to the 2020 Class of the National Academic of Medicine. She is an appointed standing member of National Institutes of Health National Advisory Mental Health Research Council. Her research examines the significance of context to everyday life experiences of African American families and youth, focusing on processes through which racism, and other social structural stressors, cascade through families to influence parenting and family functioning, developmental outcomes, and adjustment among youth, during critical developmental periods from middle childhood through young adulthood.