Public health and safety issues affect every person, every day, and through their research and expansive knowledge of emerging trends, Penn State experts are available to share their insights on the latest issues impacting people's lives.
Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development
Health & Medicine
Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Social Sciences
Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State Harrisburg
Health & Medicine
Penn State has a wide range of experts looking at issues like substance use disorder, reproductive rights, gun violence and mass shootings.
Our experts are experienced in speaking with journalists to explain these complex issues to a general audience.
Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development,
Assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Contact Abenaa Jones with questions about: the opioid epidemic and how racial differences affect opioid overdose educational training and administration of overdose reversal drugs, and the prevalence of opioid use in inner cities and racial/ethnic differences in opioid use.
Director, Population Research Institute,
Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography
Contact Jennifer Van Hook with questions about: Settlement and incorporation patterns of U.S. immigrants and social, economic, and health assimilation of immigrants and their descendants.
Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Contact Jonathan Ivy with questions about: how the media can cover mass shootings in a responsible way.
Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State Harrisburg,
Director, Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research
Contact Weston Kensinger with questions about: with questions about Addiction, Opioid Epidemic, Drug and Alcohol Use and Abuse, High-Risk Health Behaviors
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Contact Sarah Horvath with questions about: reproductive rights and health, including the safety of and access to mifepristone.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Contact Eileen Ahlin with questions about: risk and protective factors associated with exposure to community violence and violent behaviors.
Penn State expertise spans far beyond those that we have currently featured on the site. Call us at 814-865-7517 or contact a member of the media relations staff
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