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Research Seminar: Substance Use among Adolescents and Emerging Adults of Color

Research Seminar: Substance Use among Adolescents and Emerging Adults of Color: Preventing Health Disparities


Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:15 PM -1:45 PM EST

Speaker: Trenette Clark Goings, Ph.D., LCSW, Sandra Reeves Spears & John B. Turner Distinguished Professor, Director, INSPIRED Lab, University of North Carolina School of Social Work


Trenette Clark Goings, Ph.D., is the Sandra Reeves Spears and John B. Turner Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work and founding director of the INSPIRED Lab. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic health disparities with a primary emphasis on the epidemiology, etiology, and prevention of substance use and other risky behaviors among youth and emerging adults of color.


Dr. Goings is an expert in substance use prevention among youth and emerging adults of color. Her work has been consistently funded and has yielded publications in leading peer-reviewed journals including Drug & Alcohol Dependence, Addiction, Development & Psychopathology, Addictive Behaviors, and Health Psychology. She is currently the principal investigator of two major grants funded by SAMHSA and an R01 funded by the NIH/NIDA.


A zoom link will be sent before the training.

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