About Us

Roger Roffman, D.S.W.
Director of IPRG
Professor at UW School of Social Work

D.S.W. in Social Work, University of California, Berkeley His research focuses on the design and evaluation of interventions in the fields of drug dependence and HIV-prevention. Over a period of 20 years, funding from NIDA, CSAT, and the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute has supported a series of randomized controlled trials evaluating interventions targeting marijuana-dependent adults and adolescents. NIMH, CDC, and the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health have funded a series of HIV-prevention studies, over a 15-year period, designed to evaluate both counseling and community-level interventions with gay and bisexual men, and with women and adolescents residing in urban public housing developments. Roffman has served as an ad hoc grant reviewer for NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH, and CSAT.

Denise Walker, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
Research Assistant Professor at UW School of Social Work

• B.S. in Psychology, University of Washington
• Ph.D. in Psychology, University of New Mexico
• Provides leadership in the development of clinical intervention protocols for trials and supervision of staff in protocol delivery. Develops training protocols and implements these protocols with clinical staff, which includes developing a certification process through which training of staff to a standard of competent adherence to clinical protocols is accomplished. Implements quality assurance protocols concerning intervention adherence and competence. Additional functions include assisting with data analyses, preparing publications and conference presentations, and writing grant applications for future studies.

Lyungai Mbilinyi, MPH, Ph.D.
Project Director-Men's Domestic Abuse Check-Up
Research Assistant Professor at UW School of Social Work

B.A. in International Relations and French Literature; Minor in Japan Studies, Macalester College. Master of Social Work (MSW), University of Minnesota. Master of Public Health (MPH), University of Minnesota. Ph.D. in Social Work, University of Minnesota. Responsible for project management, including overseeing the marketing, research and intervention components of the study. Lyungai’s research background is in Intimate Partner Violence, HIV/AIDS’ impact on sub-Saharan African girls and women, and the intersection of race and class among social and health issues. A native of Tanzania, Lyungai also has a keen interest on immigrant issues in the US.

Joan Zegree, Ph.D.
Clinical Co-Director
Adjunct Assistant Professor at UW School of Social Work

• Maintains a private practice and a state-certified domestic violence treatment program in Seattle. Joan is an adjunct assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington. Zegree has conducted clinical research on domestic violence intervention and consulted nationally and internationally on domestic violence intervention, the impact of domestic violence on children, domestic violence in the workplace, and program and public policy development.

Clayton Neighbors, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Houston Research interests center on social and motivational influences in etiology, prevention, and treatment of health and risk behaviors.  Social influence constructs of interest include social norms, conformity, peer influences, and social anxiety.  Motivational constructs of interest include self-determination, motives, and expectancies. Outcomes of interest include alcohol and substance abuse, problem gambling, body image and eating disorders, intimate partner violence and aggressive driving.  Support for this research has been provided by NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH, the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, and the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders.

Partnerships

University of Minnesota

Jeffrey Edleson, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator for the Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse Project

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• University of California at Berkeley
• Masters and Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and Director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.
  
  Jeff has conducted intervention research and provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in several other countries including Germany, Australia, Israel, Cyprus, Korea, and Singapore. Dr. Edleson is an Associate Editor of the journal Violence Against Women and has also served on the editorial boards of numerous journals.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Robert Stephens, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator for Marijuana Check-up and Marijuana Treatment Projects

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