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Tamika Gilreath Assistant Professor Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2007 M.S. Virginia State Uinversity, 2003 B.S. Virginia Commonwealth University tgilreat@usc.edu |
| TAMIKA D. GILREATH has worked on several projects related to substance use including biomedical studies of smoking patterns and performing secondary data analyses of the correlates of smoking among African American youth and adult samples. Her primary research interests include health disparities and patterns of co-morbidity of substance use, and poor mental health among African American youth, as well as international tobacco consumption among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa.
Gilreath has received substantial training in the use of advanced multivariate statistical methods across substantive areas with a focus on latent variable modeling. She has also co-authored several peer-reviewed articles, and presented at national conferences regarding these topics. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Prevention and Community Research at Yale University School of Medicine. Gilreath's teaching interests include research methods; advanced quantitative methods; drugs behavior and health; adolescent development; and international social work. |
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