mrk63@uw.edu
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Professional interests
- Prevention program dissemination, efficacy and effectiveness
- Positive youth development
- Prevention health economics: cost, benefit-cost, cost-effectiveness analysis
- Community-based and family-focused preventive interventions
- Prevention science and health economic approaches to increasing health equity
Margaret Kuklinski
Endowed Associate Professor in Prevention | Director, Social Development Research Group
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Margaret Kuklinski is the Director of the Social Development Research Group and a Social Work Endowed Associate Professor in Prevention. Margaret Kuklinski’s research and intervention efforts are at the intersection of prevention science and health economics. Her work aims to promote positive developmental outcomes by demonstrating the long-term impact of effective community-based and family-focused intervention, identifying the level of investment needed to improve health and wellbeing through effective intervention, and building policy support for preventive interventions by demonstrating their benefits and costs.
Kuklinski is director of the School’s Social Development Research Group where she supports efforts to disseminate interventions to communities, families and agencies. For more than a decade, she has led or contributed to studies that promote healthy behaviors and positive development. She serves as Acting Director for the Center for Communities That Care and co-principal investigator on the longitudinal evaluation of the Communities That Care prevention system which has demonstrated impact on preventing drug use and antisocial behavior from adolescence into young adulthood. She is also co-principal investigator on a multisite trial testing the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing Guiding Good Choices, a prevention program for parents of adolescents, in three regionally and socioeconomically diverse healthcare systems. She currently co-chairs the Health Economics Working Group for a set of projects funded under NIDA’s HEAL Prevention Initiative aimed at preventing opioid misuse in adolescents and young adults.
As a health economist, Kuklinski has been involved in national efforts, conducted under the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as well as the Society for Prevention Research, to establish best practices for cost, benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions for children, youth, and families. She routinely consults and lectures on health economics and prevention science, and is an elected board member of the Society for Prevention Research.
Published research
- Bullying and physical violence and their association with handgun carrying among youth growing up in rural areas
- Young adults with a history of substance use disorder experienced more negative mental health, social, and economic outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic period
- Strategies for recruiting adolescents in rural areas in firearm injury research
- Prevention: The missing link in our efforts to support families impacted by the opioid epidemic
- Multiple perspectives on motivating parents in pediatric primary care to initiate participation in parenting programs
- Family-focused universal substance use prevention in primary care: Advancing a pragmatic national healthcare agenda
- Conceptualization of firearm-related terms among rural adolescents: Definitions matter
- The association of alcohol use and heavy drinking with subsequent handgun carrying among youth from rural areas
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of an internet-based prevention intervention for young children at-risk for functional abdominal pain
- Pilot implementation of Guiando Buenas Decisiones, an evidence-based parenting program for Spanish-speaking families, in pediatric primary care in a large, U.S. health system: A qualitative interview study
- Supporting families after pediatric traumatic injury: Illuminating parent experiences of stress and coping
- Multiple perspectives on motivating parents in pediatric primary care to initiate participation in parenting programs
- The association of alcohol use and heavy drinking with subsequent handgun carrying among youth from rural areas
- Parent-focused prevention of adolescent health risk behavior: Study protocol for a multisite cluster-randomized trial implemented in pediatric primary care
- Accounting for quality improvement during the conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials within healthcare systems: NIH collaboratory case studies
- Bullying and physical violence and their association with handgun carrying among youth growing up in rural areas
- Effect of the Communities That Care prevention system on adolescent handgun carrying: A cluster-randomized clinical trial
- School handgun carrying among youth growing up in rural communities
- Young adult opioid misuse indicates a general tendency toward substance use and is strongly predicted by general substance use risk
- Valuing the cross-sector benefits from improving youth health to drive investment in place-based preventive interventions in the US: A simulation modeling study
- Trajectories of handgun carrying in rural communities from early adolescence to young adulthood
- Cost effectiveness of school and home interventions for students with disruptive behavior problems
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of First Step Next for preschoolers with social-emotional needs
- Economic evaluation design within the HEAL Prevention Cooperative
- Simultaneous use of marijuana and alcohol: Potential prevention targets among young adults who use alcohol
- Substance-specific risk factors among young adults: Potential prevention targets across cannabis-permissive environments
- Comparison of estimated incentives for preventing postpartum depression in value-based payment models using the net present value of care vs total cost of care
- Long-term impacts and benefit-cost analysis of the Communities That Care prevention system at age 23, 12 years after baseline
- Benefit-cost analysis of Promoting First Relationships®: Implications of victim benefits assumptions for return on investment
- Supporting strategic investment in social programs: A cost analysis of the Family Check-Up
- Comprehensive cost analysis of First Step Next for preschoolers with disruptive behavior disorder: Using real-world intervention data to estimate costs at scale
- Long-term effects of the Communities That Care trial on substance use, antisocial behavior, and violence through age 21 years
- Standards of evidence for conducting and reporting economic evaluations in prevention science
- Testing the question-behavior effect of self-administered surveys measuring youth drug use
- Effects of Communities That Care on males’ and females’ drug use and delinquency 9 years after baseline in a community-randomized trial
- Benefit-cost analysis of a randomized evaluation of Communities That Care: Monetizing intervention effects on the initiation of delinquency and substance use through grade 12
- Benefit-cost analysis of prevention and intervention programs for youth and young adults: Introduction to the special issue
- Research priorities for economic analyses of prevention: Current issues and future directions
- Firearm experiences, behaviors, and norms among rural adolescents