Gia Barboza-Salerno, JD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Joint Faculty
Health Behavior and Health Promotion


Office
1841 Neil Ave., 352 Cunz Hall, Columbus, OH 43210
Gia Barboza-Salerno

Biography

Dr. Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno’s scholarship focuses on the manifestation of violence across the lifespan from childhood to old age. Their work explores the multiple contextual influences of risk, including trauma, externalizing behaviors and substance abuse, on manifestations of interpersonal violence including domestic abuse and adolescent bullying, self-harm (including suicide), and neglect in vulnerable populations (children, adolescents, LGBT individuals and the elderly). Dr. Barboza-Salerno’s research utilizes big data, nationally representative datasets, quasi-experimental and longitudinal research designs and methodologies, such as growth mixture modeling, parallel process modeling and Bayesian space-time techniques. Their work has appeared in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Child Maltreatment, The Journal of Interpersonal Violence and The Journal of Urban Health. Dr. Barboza-Salerno's work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, State Street and the United Way.

Dr. Barboza-Salerno currently serves as the Statistical Associate Editor for the journal Child Maltreatment. Dr. Barboza-Salerno is also an attorney who has worked in the courts as an advocate assisting domestic violence victims as they navigate the legal and criminal justice system.

Education

PhD – Michigan State University
2008 – Political Methodology
MS – Michigan State University
2008 – Statistics
MA – Michigan State University
2002 – Child Development and Family Studies
JD – Michigan State University
2000 – Law

Research interests

Drug overdose prevention; Child maltreatment/family violence; Advanced statistical modeling; Spatial analysis; Scholarly writing (publications); Intersection of child welfare and legal system

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