Dr. O'Shea is a quantitative methodologist and developmental scientist with interests in: adaptively tailored behavioral health interventions using mHealth technology; use of intensive and long-term longitudinal methods to study intra-individual change; accommodating measurement noninvariance in latent variable models; and inter-generational risk for substance use and mental and behavioral health conditions.

Dr. Ennett is a public health researcher who focuses on how social contexts, including family, peers, schools, and neighborhoods, interrelate in promoting and constraining health risk behaviors over the early life course. Her research includes exploring health behaviors related to youth alcohol and tobacco use as well as prevention of risky health behaviors through family-based programs and school policies.

Dr. Gilkey is a public health researcher who focuses on adolescent health and cancer prevention and health services research. She studies individual, interpersonal, and organizational approaches to improving the delivery of adolescent vaccines, including the HPV vaccine.

Dr. Reyes’ research focuses on the etiology and prevention of violence, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors across the life-course, with a particular focus on adolescent populations. Her current program of research focuses on understanding the developmental pathways that lead to adolescent dating violence and the development and evaluation of interventions to prevent health risk behaviors during the early life-course.

Marina has been a project manager with UNC research since 2019 and supports projects in the Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine.