Materials

Welcome and Overview:

• Thomas W. Valente, Ph.D. – Social Networks and Adolescent Health Behavior: Charting a Research Agenda for the Next Decade

State of the Art Panel One: Methodological Highlights

• Martin Y. Iguchi, Ph.D. – SATHCAP: Using Social Network Information from an RDS Sample
• John M. Light, Ph.D. – Stochastic Modeling of Social Networks and Health Risk Behaviors with SIENA
• Michael Mason, Ph.D. – Placed-Based Social Network Research: Linking Urban Adolescents’ Social Lives to their Activity Spaces

State of the Art Panel Two: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Services Research Highlights

• D. Wayne Osgood, Ph.D. ­– Adolescents’ Friendship Networks, Substance Use, and Prevention: The PROSPER Peers Study
• Lee D. Hoffer, Ph.D., M.P.E. – Applying Agent-Based Modeling to the Problems of Addiction and Drug Markets
• Bernice A. Pescosolido, Ph.D. – Social Network Theories, Findings and Challenges for Epidemiology, Health Services and Policy

State of the Art Panel Three: Blending Social, Biological, and Environmental Perspectives

• Read Montague, Ph.D. – Neuroeconomic and Computational Approaches to Social Interaction
• Gregory Berns, M.D., Ph.D. – Neuroeconomic Approaches to Social Effects on Adolescent Decision Making
• Stephen J. Suomi, Ph.D. – Risk, Resilience, and Gene X Environment Interactions in Primates
• Moshe Szyf, Ph.D. – The Epigenome Linking Early Life Adversity and Adult Behavior and Health

State of the Art Panel Four: Impact of Technology on ‘Place & Space’

• Megan A. Moreno, .D., M.P.H. – Social Networking Sites and Adolescent Health
• Julia Lane, Ph.D. – Cyberinfrastructure and Data on Human and Social Interactions: The Example of Organizations
• Marta González, Ph.D. – Mobile Phones and Large Scale Human Activity

Highlighted Address: Network Dynamics and Health

• Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D, Ph.D., M.P.H. – The Spread of Health Phenomena in Longitudinally Resolved Social Networks