Ms. Robertson provides data analysis and management for a large epidemiological, prospective study focused on exploring pathways to drug use and crime in a community cohort of inner city African Americans. This population has been followed from age 6 to 42 with four periods of data collection.

substance use, violent behavior, crime, mental health, child health

Bowie, J.V., Ensminger, M.E., & Robertson, J.A. 2006. Alcohol problem use in African American young adults: Effects of religiosity, social resources and mental health. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 67 (in press).

Crum, R. M., Juon, H. S., Green, K. M., Robertson, J.A., Fothergill, K., Ensminger, M.E. 2006. Educational achievement and early school behavior as predictors of alcohol use disorders: 35-year follow-up of the Woodlawn study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 67 (in press).

Gerson, C.G., Riley, A., Fivush, B.A., Pham, N., Fiorenza, J., Robertson, J., Chandra, M. Trachtman, H., Weiss, R., Furth, S.L. 2005. Assessing Health Status and Health Care Utilization in Adolescents with Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 16.

Riley, A.W., Forrest, C.B., Rebok, G.W., Starfield, B., Green, B.F., Robertson, J.A., Friello, P. 2004. The Child Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: Reliability and Validity. Medical Care 42(3):221-231.

Riley, A.W., Forrest, C.B., Starfield, B., Rebok, G.W., Robertson, J.A., Green, B.F. 2004. The Parent Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: Reliability and Validity. Medical Care 42(3):210-220.

Starfield, B., Robertson J., Riley, A.W. 2002. Social Class Gradients in Health in Childhood. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2:238-246.

Starfield, B., Riley, A.W., Witt, W.P., Robertson, J. 2002. Social Class Gradients in Health during Adolescence. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56: 354-361.

Rebok, G., Riley, A.W., Forrest, C., Starfield, B., Green, B.F., Robertson, J.A., Tambor, E. 2001. Elementary School-Aged Children’s Reports of their Health: A Cognitive Interviewing Study. Quality of Life Research 10:59-70.

Robins, L.N. and Robertson, J. (1998). Exposure to fateful events: a confounder in assigning causal roles to life events. In: B.P. Dohrenwend (Ed.) Adversity, Stress and Psychopathology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 331-340.

Robins, L.N. and Robertson, J. (1994). Truancy and later psychiatric disorder. In: I. Berg and J. Nursten (Eds.) Unwillingly to School, 4th Ed. London: Gaskell.