| Biosketch: |
Dr. Weiss is a faculty member in MPH, the Department of Health Science, CSUF. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, and completed an NIH post-doctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She was Principal Investigator of the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program grant examining psychosocial risk factors for adolescent smoking initiation and other drug use. She is currently Principal Investigator on a NIH funded research project investigating adolescents' decision making in tobacco and alcohol use. She is also Co-Principal Investigator on a CDC funded research project via the Center for Prevention of Childhood Obesity. Her publications have been in the area of adolescent smoking and drug use, weight concern and eating disturbance, and health disparity among culturally diverse populations. Dr. Weiss is currently teaching Consumer Health and Determinants of Health Behavior classes. |
| Interest Areas: |
Dr. Weiss focuses her teaching and research on utilizing a behavioral decision-making model as the theoretical framework to examine people's decisions in lifestyle choices in various health domains (such as smoking and other drug use, physical activity, dieting behavior), along with risk perceptions and motivations regarding health behavior change and maintainence. Other research interests include the assessment of effects of psychosocial and environmental factors on health behaviors and health outcomes. She is especially interested in examining methodological problems related to these assessments. |
