Congratulations to the 2009 ECPN Early Career Award Recipient!

ESIN Scholar, Dr. Maldonado-Molina received the 2009 ECPN Early Career Award from the Society for Prevention Research.

The Early Career Preventionist Network (ECPN) Early Career Award is presented to a person early in their career in prevention.  This award is bestowed on someone who has shown a commitment to prevention science through outstanding contributions to research, policy or practice.

Dr. Mildred Maldonado-Molina is Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy and the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida. She is a methodologist with interests in longitudinal methods and the prevention of substance use, particularly alcohol use. She has published in the areas of underage drinking, alcohol and substance use prevention, and evaluation of alcohol-related policies. She is a co-principal investigator in a project examining the effects of alcohol tax policies on risky behaviors and health outcomes. Dr. Maldonado-Molina also is also involved in projects examining outcomes of a prevention program targeting racially diverse and economically disadvantaged urban youth, testing the effects of DUI penalties in reducing underage drinking, and evaluating patterns of substance progression among Hispanic adolescents. Her substantive research interests include the study of patterns of substance use among adolescents, prevention of alcohol use among youth, and evaluation of alcohol control policies. Her methodological interests include latent class and latent transition analysis, latent growth modeling, and multi-level models. She received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University.