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Jillian C. Strayhorn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU School of Global Public Health and the Associate Director of its Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization (CADIO). Her research primarily focuses on complex multi-criteria decision-making and optimizing multicomponent interventions to achieve significant public health impacts. Dr. Strayhorn is an expert in multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), a framework for optimizing behavioral, biobehavioral, and social-structural interventions. Her interdisciplinary work synthesizes ideas and methods from Bayesian statistics, health economics, and multi-criteria decision analysis to enable the successful identification and advancement of high-value interventions capable of addressing complex public health objectives. She collaborates with various applications in public health, including cancer risk reduction, smoking cessation, HIV prevention, substance misuse, and mental health. Dr. Strayhorn earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology with summa cum laude distinction from Cornell University and completed her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has received numerous awards for her academic achievements, including the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA predoctoral award and the Alumni Association Dissertation Award at Pennsylvania State University. Her recent work has been published in several leading journals.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.