LCRN Advisory Committee

Stephen Buka, ScD

Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

Stephen is an epidemiologist and developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the causes, development and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders. Current studies include investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addictive disorders, including neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques; and community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s, and Brown’s Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology.

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