Sarah Stoddard, PhD

University of Michigan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
3726 SPH 1, 1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI
USA 48109

Biographical Sketch: Sarah Stoddard is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Her research interests include understanding how social context influences the development of individual-level risk and protective factors in high risk urban youth and young adults. She is particularly interested in examining youth purpose and hope for the future as protective factors for vulnerable populations of youth, and the influence of social context on the development of youth purpose, hope for the future, and health and risk behaviors.

Papers:
3042.0 Violence exposure and depressive symptoms among urban youth: A growth curve analysis 4241.0 Cumulative risk and promotive factors and physical and relational aggression during early adolescence