Lynn Agre, MPH, PhD

Center Manager
Rutgers University
RUTCOR - Rutgers Center for Operations Research
640 Bartholomew Road
Piscataway, NJ
USA 0885

Biographical Sketch: Lynn Agre, M.P.H., Ph.D. recently completed her thesis,"The Mediating Role of Risk Proneness on the Ecology of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior," which examines how adolescents perceive their own propensity to engage in risk and if this likelihood then predicts deleterious health behaviors. She also serves as Center Manager for an applied mathematics unit at Rutgers University, RUTCOR-Rutgers Center for Operations Research and is also a part-time lecturer in statistics and health and welfare policy. Her current research interests include: the interaction between behavior and disease; how underlying mechanisms like depression predispose persons to later-life disability; and the role of economies in health behavior and disease.

Papers:
3414.0 Use of weighted path analysis in testing the influence of self-regulation, risk proneness, peer pressure, and substance use on adolescent sexual risk behavior 4164.0 Examination of New Jersey alcohol and tobacco outlet density in relation to socio-demographics, unemployment and poverty rates, using geospatial and random effects models