Postdoctoral Scholars

Anne Marie Schipani-McLaughlin, Project Director, Health Promotion & Behavior, School of Public Health

Research Interests: sexual violence, the bystander model, alcohol-related sexual violence

Postdoctoral advisor: Laura Salazar

Melissa Osborne, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health

Research Interests: child maltreatment, parent behavior, adolescent health risk behavior, firearms

Postdoctoral advisor: Shannon Self-Brown

Melissa Osborne is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development.  She earned an MPH and a PhD in Public Health from Georgia State University.  Her research focuses on child maltreatment, parent behavior, and adolescent health risk behavior, and related interventions.  She also has an interest in firearm research with the goal of better understanding risk and protective factors associated with firearms and violence.  Her dissertation work examined in-home firearm access and parent-child relationship quality as potential mediators in the relation between early child maltreatment victimization and weapon carrying in adolescence