Ms. Austin won for her paper entitled, “Patterns of risk and protective factors among Alaska children and differential associations with child development.” Read the full abstract here.
Ms. Austin is a graduate research assistant at the IPRC and a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Maternal and Child Health. She received an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health and worked as a Fellow for the New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers Partnership. She was also a CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow at NC DPH|IVPB and received the CDC/CSTE Hillary B. Foulkes Memorial Award. Research interests include the prevention of child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences, and parenting in the context of substance use.