Elisabeth Wells-Parker
Email: bwparker@ssrc.msstate.edu
Phone: (662) 325-7959
Dr. Wells-Parker’s research areas and interests deal with alcohol, drugs , and highway safety as well as health behaviors and health services.. Her grants include funding by such agencies as the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Aging, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Research and Quality, Office of Special Projects (HRSA), Mississippi Governor’s Highway Safety Program and the NRTA/AARP Andrus Foundation. She has served on the Alcohol, Drugs and Transportation Committee of the Transportation Research Board and the Executive Council of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS). Some of her publications include “Final Results from a Meta-analysis of Remedial Interventions with Drink/drive Offenders,” Addiction; “Stages of Change and Self-efficacy for Controlling Drinking and Driving,” Addictive Behaviors; “The Science of Prevention: Methodological Advances from Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research,” American Psychological Association; “Drinking and Driving Among Women” and “Gender Trends, Gender Difference,” Women and Alcohol: Issues for Prevention Research. Along with her many publications, Dr. Wells-Parker has been an invited addressee for the International Council on Alcohol and Alcoholism, Circuit Court of Cook County, IL, the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, NIH/NHTSA Workshops and Southeastern Regional DUI Systems Conferences. She has also served as a member/consultant of grant review panels for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institutes of Health, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, the Department of Defense, the Medical Research Board of Canada, and the PEW Foundation as well as a consultant for Yale University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Wells-Parker was a co-investigator for the Rural Health, Safety and Security Institute. In this role, she developed a number of health related projects in the areas of patient safety, health service delivery and applied cognitive issues in medical settings. She is a Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of the Social Science Research Center.
March 6, 2011SSRC 2011 Annual Report
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