Administrative Core
Bonnie Green, PhD

Task: Determine program priorities, review Center progress in all areas, assure communication among Center components, monitor community relationships, assess new clinical and research opportunities.

Consists of 3 teams:

1. Community Liaison Team

Chair: Tiffany Townsend, PhD, Department of Psychiatry

Task: Facilitate and monitor relationships with community partners and with the community advisory board. Support collaboration for research projects.

2. Training Team

Chair: Janice Krupnick, PhD, Department of Psychiatry

Task: Assist junior investigators in their research efforts to promote their becoming independent investigators; provide training opportunities for center personnel, community providers, and staff interested in developing research skills.

3. Dissemination Team

Chair: Stacey Kaltman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry

Task: Develop and maintain effective communication among groups within the Center; develop a website to disseminate center research and other activities to various stakeholders; develop modes of relaying expertise and opportunities for participation

Methods Core
Co-Chairs: Lori Frank, Nawar Shara, Donald Stull

Task: Develop and provide consultation on state-of-the-art research design, methods, statistics, and outcome measures

Goals: Assist partners in obtaining funding related to Center mission, review and propose use of promising and innovative methods (e.g. cell phones for data collection), provide mentoring and workshops on new methods, and design studies to test pros and cons of different methods

The following functions are supported:

1. Statistics Consultation

Task: Provide expertise and technical assistance on up-to-date statistical analysis procedures and methods; provide data entry, management, and program support for Center projects

2. Mental Health Outcomes

Task: Development, adaptation, and translation of culturally sensitive trauma and mental health outcomes measures

3. Mental Health Economics

Task: Provide expertise and support for reviewing and evaluating budget implications and cost-effectiveness of new trauma screening and treatment interventions for the health care system

Research Core Group

Chair: Mary Ann Dutton, PhD, Psychiatry

Task: To help the field develop effective treatments for low-income women who have experienced interpersonal trauma that “work” for patients, providers, and service systems, implement three center-funded pilot studies, identify promising interventions for trauma, test alternate methods of recruitment/retention, and support other pilot work & research development

Advisory Boards

Task: Provide feedback to the Directors on Center progress in advancing trauma-related intervention research, evaluating strengths, weaknesses, and relevance of the Center’s activities and projects; offer suggestions for change

Academic Advisory Board

Community Advisory Board