neisen@uw.edu
206-685-9583
Professional interests
Positive youth development
Prevention of behavioral health problems
Community, school and family based preventive interventions
Prevention program dissemination, implementation and evaluation
Prevention science approaches to increasing health equity
Data utilization for prevention planning
Measurement of risk and protective factors
International collaborations
Nicole Eisenberg
Senior Research Scientist
SDRG
MA and PhD, University of California Los Angeles
Nicole Eisenberg is a Senior Research Scientist at the Social Development Research Group and the Director of International Programs at The Center for Communities That Care. She has contributed to or led numerous projects aimed at promoting wellbeing and/or preventing behavioral health problems among children and youth. With expertise in prevention science, program evaluation, and international collaborations, her work has focused on understanding and measuring risk and protective factors and developmental outcomes in children and youth, extending the reach of preventive interventions and adapting them to new contexts, and the use of qualitative and mixed methods research. She has also worked collaboratively with communities to help them collect and use survey data for decision making and prevention planning.
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Published research
- Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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
- Optimizing assessment of risk and protection for diverse adolescent outcomes: Do risk and protective factors for delinquency and substance use also predict risky sexual behavior?
- Community utilization of risk and protective factor data for prevention planning in Chile and Colombia
- Parents’ perceptions of adolescent exposure to marijuana following legalization in Washington State
- Assessing community readiness for preventing youth substance use in Colombia: A latent profile analysis
- Parenting practices in the context of legal marijuana: Voices from Seattle parents
- Marijuana legalization and parents’ attitudes, use, and parenting in Washington State
- Adaptation and implementation of a science-based prevention system in Colombia: Challenges and achievements
- Latest developments in the prevention of crime and anti‐social behaviour: an American perspective