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Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D.
Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College, City University of New York
Executive Director, Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health

TEL: 212-481-7672

last update: 2/8/07

 

EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL B.Mus. 1965 Music
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS M.A. 1967 Clinical Psychology
The Graduate Center City University of New York, NY Ph.D. 1979 Social Personality Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1978-1979 Director of Research, Community School District #18, Brooklyn, NY
1979-1987 Assistant Professor, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1986-1989 Senior Project Director and Group Manager, Eric Marder Associates, New York, NY
1987-1989 Associate Professor, Psychology, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1988-1989 Director, Women's Studies, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1988-1989 Director, College Center, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
1990-1993 Senior Research Associate, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1990-2001 Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, Women's Studies, Health Sciences, New York, NY
1993-1994 Senior Project Director, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY
1996-2001 Deputy Director, Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY
1998-2001 Deputy Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY
2001-present Professor, Urban Public Health, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY
2001-present Executive Director, Hunter College, Center for Community and Urban Health, New York, NY

HONORS AND AWARDS

  Fellow, American Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Association, Health Psychology Division
Research Award, Grant-in-Aid Program, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, American Psychological Association
Citation Poster, Society of Behavioral Medicine
Kurt Lewin Award, Division of Social Issues, New York State Psychological Association
1997-2000 Reviewer, AIDS and Related Research, NIH Center for Scientific Review, Study Section 8
2000-present Advisory Board Member, New York State Practice Research Collaborative, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
2001-present Special Emphasis Panels AREA, CIPRA and MIDARP, NICHD, NIMH, NIDA: Member or Chair

PUBLICATIONS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (Acknowledged as part of the ACDP Research team). Community level prevention of HIV infection among high-risk populations: Methodology and preliminary findings from the AIDS Community Demonstration Projects. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Supplement, 45:1-25, 1996.

Krauss, B.: Living with a silent epidemic: Teens and pre-teens identify challenges for HIV education in their high-seroprevalence inner-city neighborhood. Families in Society, 78(6):579-591, 1997.

Krauss, B., Goldsamt, L., Bula, E., and Sember, R.: The White researcher in the multicultural community: Lessons in HIV prevention education learned in the field. Journal of Health Education, 28:S67-S71, 1997.

The CDC AIDS Community Demonstration Projects Research Group [Krauss, B.J.]: Community-level HIV intervention in five cities: Final outcome data from the CDC AIDS Community Demonstration Projects. American Journal of Public Health, 89(3):336-345, 1999.

Krauss, B.J., Wolitski, R.J., Tross, S., Corby, N.H., Fishbein, M., and the AIDS Community Demonstration Projects.: Getting the message: HIV information sources of women who have sex with injecting drug users- a two site study. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 48(2):153-173, 1999.

Krauss, B.J., Goldsamt, L., Bula, E., Godfrey, C., Yee, D.S., and Palij, M.: Pre-test assessment as a component of safer sex intervention: A pilot study of brief one-session interventions for women partners of male injection drug users in New York City. Journal of Urban Health, 77(3):383-395, 2000.

Krauss, B, Godfrey, C, Yee, D, et al.: Saving our children from a silent epidemic: The PATH program for parents and pre-adolescents. In W. Pequegnat, and J. Szapocznik (Eds.), Working with families in the era of HIV/AIDS. pp. 89-112. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.

Pequegnat, W., Bauman, L.J., Bray, J.H., Hoppe, S.K., Jemmott, L.S., Krauss, B., Miles, M., Paikoff, R., Rapkin, B., Rotheram-Borus, M.J., and Szapocznik, J.: Measures relevant to the role of families in prevention and adaptation to HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Behavior, 5(1):1-19, 2001.

Krauss, B.: Giving back to the community – Playing fair in the information and service exchange. In S. Tortu, L. Goldsamt, and R. Hamid (Eds.) A practical guide to research and service with hidden populations. pp. 159-189). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

Krauss, B.J., Franchi, D., O'Day, J., Pride, J., Lozada, L., Aledort, N., and Bates, D.: Two shadows of the Twin Towers: Missing safe spaces and foreclosed opportunities. Families in Society, 84:523-239, 2003.

Krauss, B., Krauss, H., O'Day, J. and Rente, K.: Sexual violence in the schools. In F. Denmark et al. (Eds.), Violence in the schools: Cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives. pp. 101-116. New York: Springer, 2005.

Krauss, B., Godfrey, C.C., O'Day, J., and Freidin, E.: Hugging my uncle: The impact of a parent training on children's comfort interacting with persons with HIV. The Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31(9):891-904, 2006.

Krauss, B., Godfrey, C., ODay, J., Freidin, E., and Kaplan, R.: Learning to live with an epidemic: Reducing stigma and increasing safe and sensitive socializing with persons with HIV. In M. E. Lyon and L. J. DAngelo (Eds.). Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights from youth living with the virus. pp. 83-103. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.

Krauss, B., O'Day, J., Godfrey, C., Rente, K., Freidin, L., Bratt, E., Minian, N., Knibb, K., Welch, C., Kaplan, R., Saxena, G., McGinniss, S., Gilroy, J., Nwakeze, P., and Curtain, S.: Who wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence and an emerging single standard among adolescent women. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences in press.

Roye, C., Perlmutter, P., and Krauss, B.: A brief, low-cost, theory-based intervention to promote dual method use by Black and Latina adolescents: A randomized clinical trial. Health Education and Behavior in press.

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