Data Collection for Wave 2 of the Birmingham Youth Violence Study is currently underway. Visit our BYVS page for more information on this study

The main study phase of the Healthy Passage has begun.  Healthy Passages™ is a longitudinal ten year study of multiple factors that affect children’s health. The study will help to explain the differences in health behaviors and outcomes across racial/ethnic groups and groups of differing socio-economic status. The study involves three sites (University of Alabama at Birmingham – UAB, University of Houston in Texas and University of California in Los Angeles - UCLA). Each site will enroll 1,750 fifth grade children across a two year period. The children will be studied biannually to age 20 and then every decade thereafter

Michael Windle, Ph.D. received a new two-year grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a research project titled Parenting, Adolescent Substance Use, and Delinquency. This project will involve secondary data analyses of a large (over 9,000 adolescents) national probability sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997. The objectives of the research are to examine the influence of parenting dimensions on changes (e.g., increases) of substance use and delinquency from early-to-late adolescence.

Dr. Michael Windle received a five-year grant award from the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse to study "Vulnerability Factors and Adult Drinking." This project involves a seventh wave of data collection.  The focus of the study is on the long term predictors of substance abuse and mental health disorders.

Dr. Michael Windle was a recipient of the Collier Visiting Professorship Award in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester and will present an invited talk in Rochester, New York on March 30, 2005

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