Linda Collins
Linda Collins
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Linda M. Collins is Professor of Global Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Southern California.
Collins’ research interests are focused on the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), a framework for the optimization of behavioral, biobehavioral, and social-structural interventions. The objective of MOST is to improve intervention effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and scalability. She is currently collaborating on research applying MOST in the areas of smoking cessation, the prevention of excessive drinking and risky sex in college students, and HIV services.
Collins’ research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Science Foundation, among others. She has given more than 150 presentations on MOST around the world, and her publications have appeared in journals in the fields of behavioral science, quantitative methodology, medicine, and engineering.
Collins has held tenured faculty positions at the University of Southern California and at Penn State University, where she was Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Director of The Methodology Center. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and is a past president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology and the Society for Prevention Research.
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Education
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BA, Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CTPhD, Quantitative Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Honors and awards
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Fulbright Specialist, National University of Ireland Galway (2018)Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Career Award, Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health and Human Development (2017)Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health and Human Development (2011)President’s Award, Society for Prevention Research (2004)Faculty Scholar Medal for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University (2000)Psychology Department Teacher of the Year, University of Southern California (1992)Psychology Department Mentorship Award, University of Southern California (1991)Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Multivariate Behavioral Research (1991)
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Areas of research and study
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Behavioral ScienceCost EffectivenessCost-effective Health Programs and PoliciesDissemination and Implementation of Evidence-based Programs
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Publications
Publications
A risk-based model predictive control approach to adaptive interventions in behavioral health
Failed retrieving data.Commentaries on Replication in Prevention Science : A Rejoinder
Failed retrieving data.Erratum : New methods for tobacco dependence treatment research (Annals of Behavioral Medicine (2011) 41:2 (192-207) DOI: 10.1007/s12160-010-9252-y)
Failed retrieving data.Modeling multidimensional sexual risk behavior using latent class analysis
Failed retrieving data.New methods for tobacco dependence treatment research
Failed retrieving data.Replication in Prevention Science
Failed retrieving data.The multiphase optimization strategy for engineering effective tobacco use interventions
Failed retrieving data.A dynamical systems model for understanding behavioral interventions for weight loss
Failed retrieving data.Does individual risk moderate the effect of contextual-level protective factors? a latent class analysis of substance use
Failed retrieving data.Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis : With Applications in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Failed retrieving data.A prospective longitudinal model of substance use onset among south african adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of a phased experimental approach and a single randomized clinical trial for developing multicomponent behavioral interventions
Failed retrieving data.Design of Experiments With Multiple Independent Variables : A Resource Management Perspective on Complete and Reduced Factorial Designs
Failed retrieving data.Developing multicomponent interventions using fractional factorial designs
Failed retrieving data.Erratum : Comparison of a phased experimental approach and a single randomized clinical trial for developing multicomponent behavioural interventions (Clinical Trials (2009) vol. 6 (5-15) 10.1177/1740774508100973)
Failed retrieving data.A New SAS Procedure for Latent Transition Analysis : Transitions in Dating and Sexual Risk Behavior
Failed retrieving data.Engineering control approaches for the design and analysis of adaptive behavioral interventions
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use among first-year U.S. college students : A time series analysis
Failed retrieving data.Trajectories of smoking among freshmen college students with prior smoking history and risk for future smoking : Data from the University Project Tobacco Etiology Research Network (UpTERN) study
Failed retrieving data.Web-Based Smoking-Cessation Programs. Results of a Randomized Trial
Failed retrieving data.Consider a CMA as the CFO [3]
Failed retrieving data.Customizing treatment to the patient : Adaptive treatment strategies
Failed retrieving data.Patterns of substance use onset among Hispanics in Puerto Rico and the United States
Failed retrieving data.PROC LCA : A SAS procedure for latent class analysis
Failed retrieving data.Research Design and Methods
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