Dr. Jessica Hafetz Mirman
Lecturer in Applied Psychology and Public Health
Contact details
- Email: jessica.hafetz@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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5 Forrest Hill
Room 1B31 - City
- Post code
- EH1 2QL
Background
Dr. Hafetz's primary interests are in the social determinants of health and well-being for vulnerable populations within a developmental context and in intervention development and evaluation in applied settings. Most of her research has focused on parenting and paediatric unintentional injury. She attended the University of Delaware, earning a BA in Psychology, and Fordham University, earning a PhD in Psychology (Applied Developmental). She completed her practicum training at The Children's Aid Society of New York focusing on the development and evaluation of health promotion programs for young children and their parents. She then spent two years in the non-profit sector developing and evaluating positive youth development programs for at-risk urban youth. Prior to joining the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2016-2019, and a scientist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Research Institute and Division of Adolescent Medicine from 2008-2016.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
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Variations in booster seat use by child characteristics
In:
Journal of Safety Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2020.04.014
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Assessment of caregiver-targeted interventions for use of motor vehicle passenger safety systems for children: A systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
JAMA network open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14180 (Reprinted)
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Effect of primary care parent-targeted interventions on parent-adolescent communication about sexual behavior and alcohol use: A randomized clinical trial
In:
JAMA network open, vol. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9535
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Characterizing the learning-to-drive period for teens with attention deficits
In:
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, pp. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000706
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A dynamical systems perspective on driver behavior
In:
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, vol. 63, pp. 193-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2019.04.010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)