Komro, Kelli

Dr. Kelli KomroProfessor
Phone: (352) 265-2518
Fax: (352) 265-8047
komro@ufl.edu

1329 SW 16th Street, Room 5285
PO Box 100177
Gainesville, FL 32610-0177

 

 

 

Education

  • Ph.D. in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
  • M.P.H. in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
  • M.A. in Psychology/Behavioral Medicine, Connecticut College
  • B.A. in Psychology/Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin

Professional Biography

Dr. Komro is an epidemiologist specializing in the social determinants of health among children and adolescents. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating community-wide strategies to promote health among children and adolescents. She has been PI or Co-Investigator on multiple group-randomized controlled trials focusing on preventing alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use; violence; and HIV among youth, both in the U.S. and internationally, including trials in Chicago, rural Minnesota, Russia, India, Tanzania, and most recently rural Oklahoma in partnership with the Cherokee Nation.

Dr. Komro’s scholarly research has been recognized both nationally and internationally as is evident from her publication and presentation list, as well as her work in Tanzania, Norway, Japan, and the United Kingdom. As a junior scientist in 2003, she received the Early Career Award from the Society of Prevention Research for her contributions to prevention science. She is a co-recipient of the 11th Annual Douglas S. Leather Award from the journal, Health Education Research: Theory & Practice, conferred on the authors of the article that best reflects the values that the founding editor strove to achieve. In addition to research, she has been recognized for her teaching and mentoring as recipient of the College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher in 2011, Society for Prevention Research mentoring award in 2010, and American Public Health Association’s Student Caucus mentor of the year award in 1999. She is a member of Delta Omega Society, the honorary public health society.

Dr. Komro received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota in 1994. She was a National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellow from 1994 – 1995 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was an Assistant (1999-2004) and Associate (2004) Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota from before moving to the University of Florida in October, 2004. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy in the College of Medicine, Associate Director of the Institute for Child Health Policy, and serves on the graduate faculty for Health Outcomes and Policy, and Epidemiology.

Expertise

Social & Community Epidemiology, Adolescents, Comprehensive Preventive Interventions, Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, Violence, Group Randomized Trials, Health Disparities

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Publications

  • Yarnell, L., Brown, H.S., Perry, C.L., Pasch, K.E., Komro, K.A. (2012). “Classroom norms and individual smoking behavior among middle school children.” American Journal of Health Behavior, 36(1): 12-19.

  • Tobler, A.L. and Komro, K.A, Dabroski, A., Aveyard, P. & Markham, W.A. 2011. “Preventing the link between SES and high-risk behaviors: “Value-added” education, drug use and delinquency in high-risk, urban schools.”Prevention Science. 12:211-221

  • Velazquez, C.E.*, Pasch K. E.*, Perry, C. L., Komro, K.A. (2011). “Do high-risk urban adolescents also have older friends?” Journal of Adolescent Health. 48(5): 467-72.

Grants

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Courses Taught

  • GMS 6844  Research Design