Additional Titles & Roles
- Division Director, Addiction Sciences, Prevention, and Treatment
- Director, Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation, WashU Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Clinical Research Training Center
- Co-Director, K12 Career Development Award Program in Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder
- Associate Director, KL2 Career Development Award Program, WashU Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Clinical Research Training Center
Education & Training
- PhD: State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 2004
- BA: University of Houston, Houston, TX, 1998
Research Interests
Research interests include mental health epidemiology and understanding how policy and social media shape health risk behaviors of young people.
Key Publications
- Cavazos-Rehg, P., Li, X., Kasson, E., Kaiser, N., Borodovsky, J. T., Grucza, R., … & Bierut, L. J. (2021). Exploring how social media exposure and interactions are associated with ENDS and tobacco use in adolescents from the PATH study. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23(3), 487-494.
- Kasson, E., Szlyk, H. S., Li, X., Constantino-Pettit, A., Smith, A. C., Vázquez, M. M., … & Cavazos-Rehg, P. (2024). Eating disorder symptoms and comorbid mental health risk among teens recruited to a digital intervention research study via two online approaches. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
- Kasson, E., Vázquez, M. M., Li, X., Doroshenko, C., Szlyk, H. S., Montayne, A., … & Cavazos-Rehg, P. A. (2024). A Pilot Study of Factors Influencing Engagement with an mHealth Intervention Among Teens with Eating Disorder Symptoms. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 1-11.
- Cavazos-Rehg, P., Li, X., Kasson, E., Kaiser, N., Borodovsky, J., & Grucza, R. A. (2021). Investigating the role of familial and peer-related factors on electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among US adolescents. Journal of adolescence, 87, 98-105.
- Cavazos-Rehg, P., Byansi, W., Xu, C., Nabunya, P., Bahar, O. S., Borodovsky, J., … & Ssewamala, F. M. (2021). The impact of a family-based economic intervention on the mental health of HIV-infected adolescents in Uganda: results from Suubi+ Adherence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 68(4), 742-749.
- Cavazos-Rehg, P., Xu, C., Krauss, M. J., Min, C., Winograd, R., Grucza, R., & Bierut, L. J. (2021). Understanding barriers to treatment among individuals not engaged in treatment who misuse opioids: A structural equation modeling approach. Substance Abuse, 42(4), 842-850.
Funded Research Projects
NIDA R01 (MPI):Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer Behavior
NIDA R34 (PI):mHealth to help pregnant and postpartum women in recovery for opioid use disorder
NIMH R34 (MPI):Leveraging Social Media to Identify and Connect Teens with Eating Disorders to a Mobile Guided Self-Help Mobile Intervention
NIMHD T37 (MPI):Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities in Research (LEAD)
SAMHSA(PI):Missouri’s Opioid Response Grant (SOR)
NIDA K02 (PI):Leveraging Social Media for Substance use Behavioral Insight
NIMH R01(Co-I): Bridges-Round 2: Evaluating the Long-term Impact of a Family Economic Empowerment Intervention on HIV Risk Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes among Orphaned Youth Transitioning to Young Adulthood
Arnold Ventures(Co-I):State-level Barriers and Facilitators for Evidence-Based Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Among the Uninsured Population
NIDA U01 (Co-I):1/2 – Optimizing access, engagement and assessment to elucidate prenatal influences on neurodevelopment: The Brains Begin Before Birth (B4) Midwest Consortium
NCATS(Significant Contributor):Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (KL2); Institutional Career Development Core (Fraser, KL2 Core Director)
NSF(MPI):RAPID: Social Media Based Algorithms and Interventions to Tackle the Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
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