5/28/2023 0 Comments Robert buka"New England Family Study: Baseline Support for the NINDS Pre-Natal Study" National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, PI, The National Children’s Study, Providence County, RI and Bristol County, MA sitesĢ003-2007 NIA / NIH, "Pathways Linking Education and Health in Middle Adulthood"ġ999-2006 Stanley Medical Research Institute, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, PI, Rhode Island Multiple Sclerosis Study National Institute of Aging, PI, Fetal Hormonal Programming of sex differences in Aging of Memory Circuitry (subcontract) PI, Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). National Institute of Aging, Identifying Targets for Reducing Obesity Caused by Early Life Disadvantage. National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Co-PI, Multiple Sclerosis: Prevalence & Social Functioning by Disease, Duration & Subtype Projects as Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator: He is also the PI of the National Children's Study, Providence County, RI and Bristol County, MA sites. This work provides a unique opportunity to identify both environmental and genetic factors that contribute to the etiology, and ideally prevention, of major forms of psychiatric illness and is supported by several major foundations and sections of the National Institutes of Health. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s. Current studies include investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addictive disorders, including neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques work on the long-term effects of maternal smoking on offspring health and behavior community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency and community-based strategies for the prevention of adolescent drinking and drug use. With training in epidemiology and developmental psychology, his work focuses on the causes and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders of children, youth and adults. is Professor and Chair for the Department of Epidemiology Director of the Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology and Director of the Center for the Study of Human Development. He has served on several Institute of Medicine expert committees and in advisory roles to multiple federal and state agencies. Buka served as PI of the Providence, RI and Bristol County, MA sites of the National Children’s Study (NCS) and on the NCS Executive Steering Committee for 7 years. He originated and directs the New England Family Study, which is a prospective, three-generation study of over 5000 participants from the Boston and Providence sites of the National Collaborative Perinatal Project, which combines a family design, discordant sibling sets, molecular genetics and biological assays, psychiatric, neuropsychological and functional imaging assessments. He has conducted extensive research in neuropsychology and psychiatric epidemiology, and has directed several major longitudinal studies examining the impact of birth complications, environmental hazards, and socioeconomic conditions on behavioral and intellectual development. Buka is an epidemiologist whose work centers on the causes and prevention of neuropsychiatric disorders. Stephen Buka, ScD is Professor and was Founding Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.
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