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Diana Fishbein serves as Senior Part-Time Research Faculty in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University. She is a past Director of the Prevention Research Center (PRC) and holds adjunct professor positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, while also functioning as a faculty subcontractor at Georgetown University and guest researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program.
Her research employs transdisciplinary developmental approaches to investigate neurobiological-environmental interactions affecting children and youth exposed to adversity and trauma. She focuses on translating findings into evidence-based policies to prevent mental health and behavioral problems, emphasizing how neurobiological mechanisms alter risk trajectories through psychosocial experiences.
Dr. Fishbein has received three distinguished awards from the Society of Prevention Research:
- SPR Presidential Award
- SPR Award for Public Service
- SPR Award for Translational Prevention Science
She directs the Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN) and leads projects including mindful interventions for urban youth, opioid dependence treatment via yoga, adolescent sleep-drug use relationships, and developmental fMRI studies of alcohol use. Her future work targets economic/social inequality solutions and behavioral change mechanisms.
Co-founding the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives, she champions knowledge transfer from basic science to public health policy implementation, aiming to maximize prevention science's impact on vulnerable communities.
