Jillian Strayhorn
Jillian Strayhorn
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Jillian C. Strayhorn, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at GPH and Associate Director of its Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization (cadio). She is a quantitative methodologist and decision scientist whose research focuses on the complex multi-criteria decision-making that goes into optimizing multicomponent interventions to achieve public health impact.
Dr. Strayhorn is an expert on the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), a framework for optimizing behavioral, biobehavioral, and social-structural interventions. Her work in intervention optimization is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together ideas and methods from Bayesian statistics, health economics and multi-criteria decision analysis. The driving mission of this work is to enable more successful identification and advancement of high-value interventions capable of accomplishing complex objectives, including objectives that involve multiple outcomes, efficiency of resource use, or health equity. Dr. Strayhorn collaborates on applications of MOST across various areas of public health, including cancer risk reduction, smoking cessation, HIV, substance misuse, and mental health, among others.
Dr. Strayhorn earned her BA in Psychology, summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects, at Cornell University, and her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she was the recipient of a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA predoctoral award (F31) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse . Her latest work has been published in Psychological Methods, Health Psychology, and Translational Behavioral Medicine.
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Education
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BA, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYMS, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PAPhD, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Honors and awards
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Alumni Association Dissertation Award, Pennsylvania State University (2022)Student Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions Research Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine (2021)Merrill Presidential Scholar Award, Cornell University (2014)Phi Beta Kappa Junior Inductee, Cornell University (2013)Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award, Cornell University (2013)
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Publications
Publications
Raising expectations for D&I science: Intervention optimization as an opportunity to move toward implementability and equitability.
Failed retrieving data.Optimizing educational interventions in crisis contexts through the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST).
Failed retrieving data.Using factorial mediation analysis to better understand the effects of interventions
Failed retrieving data.One view of the next decade of research on behavioral and biobehavioral approaches to cancer prevention and control: intervention optimization
Failed retrieving data.The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) in child maltreatment prevention research
Failed retrieving data.Lead exposure and the 2010 achievement test scores of children in New York counties
Failed retrieving data.Martial arts research: prudent skepticism
Failed retrieving data.Martial arts as a mental health intervention for children? Evidence from the ECLS-K
Failed retrieving data.Religiosity and teen birth rate in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Applying a decision-priority perspective in optimizing adaptive interventions.
Failed retrieving data.Intervention optimization as an opportunity to move toward implementability and equitability.
Failed retrieving data.New advances in optimizing interventions for equitability.
Failed retrieving data.Optimising a digitally delivered behavioural weight loss programme: a factorial cluster randomised controlled trial.
Failed retrieving data.Power calculation in 2k factorial optimization trials: An interactive web application, with investigation of robustness for binary outcome variables
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