Experts: Family

Dr. Byers is an associate professor with expertise in child welfare systems, child maltreatment prevention, and social determinants of health and well-being. Her research and scholarship focus on structural and systems-level issues that impact children, families, and their communities. She applies community-engaged approaches to research utilizing advanced mixed methods, implementation science, and a translational prevention framework. Her research surfaces and addresses system and community factors that impact child and family well-being.

Cui is an expert on family relationships, parenting, adolescent and young adult development and research methodology. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the fall of 2017 in Finland.

Harris’ primary research interests include inequities in the psycho-social and health status among ethnically diverse families across the life course with a particular focus in mid-life and older populations. He studies family stress, violence, mental health, substance abuse and disease prevention within the context of the family and the community.