My research interests are in three broad domains: 1) the etiology and prevention of suicide, 2) the intergenerational transmission of suicide and psychiatric disorder, 3) developmental psychopathology.

Suicide; Depression; Adolescence; Childhood; Etiology; High-Risk; Psychopathology

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Young Investigator Award, 2009-2011

The Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA), 2007, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award, 2005-2007

The Harold and Sylvia Halpert Endowment Award, 2003, Johns Hopkins University

Individual National Research Service Award, 2001-2003, fellowship to support predoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University, sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Research Service Award, 1998-2001, fellowship to support predoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University, sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (PI: James C. Anthony, Ph.D.)

Wilcox, H.C., Storr, C.L. & Breslau, N. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Suicide Attempts in a Community Sample of Urban American Young Adults. In Press, Archives of General Psychiatry.

Kuramoto, S.J., Brent, D. & Wilcox, H.C. The Impact of Parental Suicide on Child and Adolescent Offspring. In Press, Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008.

Wilcox, H.C., Grados, M., Samuels, J., Riddle, M.A., Bienvenu, O.J., Pinto, A., Cullen, B., Wang, Y., Shugart, Y.Y., Liang, K.Y., Nestadt, G. The Association of Parental Bonding and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Offspring at High Familial Risk. J Affect Disord. 2008 Nov;111(1):31-9.

Scott, M.A., Wilcox, H.C., Schonfeld, I., Davies, M., Hicks, R., Turner, J.B. & Shaffer, D. School-Based Screening to Identify At-Risk Students Not Already Known to School Professionals: The Columbia Suicide Screen. In Press, AJPH, Feb, 2009.

Guoqing Hu, G, Wilcox, H.C., Wissow, L., Baker, S.P. Mid-life Suicide: An Increasing problem in U.S. Whites, 1999-2005. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008 Dec;35(6):589-93.

Ríos-Bedoya, C.F., Wilcox, H.C., Piazza, M., Anthony, J.C. Children taking risks: The association with cocaine and other drug use by young adulthood. Addict Behav. 2008 Sep;33(9):1154-61.

Miranda, R., Scott, M., Hicks, R. Wilcox, H.C., Harris-Munkfakh, Shaffer, D. Suicide Attempt Characteristics, Diagnoses, and Future Attempts: Comparing Multiple Attempters to Single Attempters and Ideators. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Jan;47(1):32-40.

Kellam SG, Brown CH, Poduska J, Ialongo NI, Wang W, Toyinbo P, Petras H., Ford C, Windham A, Wilcox HC. Effects of a Universal Classroom Behavior Management Program in First and Second Grades on Young Adult Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Social Outcomes. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008 Jun 1;95 Suppl 1:S5-S28.

Wilcox, H.C., Kellam, SG, Brown, CH, Poduska, J, Ialongo, NS & Anthony, JC. The Impact of Two Universal Randomized First- and Second-grade Classroom Interventions on Young Adult Suicidality. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008 Jun 1;95 Suppl 1:S60-73.

Wilcox, H.C., Kuramoto, S.J., Tunkle, J. The Impact of Suicide on the Family. In: Amresh Shrivastava (Ed.): In Press Handbook of Suicide Behavior. Royal College of Psychiatrists. London, UK. 2008

Cheng, H., Radovanovic, M., Wilcox, H.C., Anthony, J.C. Global Epidemiology: Trends in Suicide Behavior. In: Amresh Shrivastava (Ed.): In Press Handbook of Suicide Behavior. Royal College of Psychiatrists. London, UK. 2008

Grados M, Wilcox HC. Genetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a research update. Expert Rev Neurother. 2007; 7(8): 967-80.

Borges G, Wilcox HC, Medina-Mora ME, Zambrano J, Blanco J, Walters E. Suicidal Behavior in the Mexican National Comorbidity Survey (M-NCS): Lifetime and 12 Month Prevalence, Psychiatric Factors and Service Utilization. Salud Mental. 2005; 28(2): 40-47.

Wilcox HC, Benoit MZ, Storr CL, Anthony JC. Ethnicity as manifest in drug-specific vocabulary and subsequent risk to start cannabis use in early adolescents. Ethnicity & Disease. 2005; 15(3): 485-491.

Wilcox HC, Anthony JC. Child & Adolescent Clinical Features as Forerunners of Adult Onset Major Depressive Disorder: Retrospective evidence from an Epidemiological Sample. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2004; 82(1): 9-20.

Wilcox HC, Anthony JC. The Development of Suicide Ideation & Attempts: An Epidemiologic Study of First Graders Followed Into Young Adulthood. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. 2004; 76S: S53-S67.

Wilcox HC. Epidemiological Evidence on the Link Between Drug Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Adolescents. Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review. 2004; 13(2): 27-30.

Wilcox HC, Conner K, Caine E. Risk for suicide associated with drug use disorders: An empirical review. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. 2004; 76S: S11-S19.

Breslau N, Wilcox HC, Storr CL, Lucia V, Anthony JC. Trauma Exposure & PTSD: A Non-concurrent prospective study of youth in urban America. Journal of Urban Health. 2004; 81(4): 530-544.

Shaffer D, Scott M, Wilcox HC, Maslow C, Hicks R, Lucas C, Garfinkel R. The Columbia Suicide Screen: Validity & Reliability of a Screen for Youth Suicide & Depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2004; 43(1): 71-79.

Borges G, Cherpitel CJ, Macdonald S, Geisbrecht N, Stockwell T, Wilcox HC. A case-crossover study of acute alcohol use and suicide attempt. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2004; 65: 708-714.

Cherpitel CJ, Borges G, Wilcox HC. Acute alcohol use and suicidal behavior. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2003; 28(5): 18S-28S.

Wilcox HC, Wagner F, Anthony J. Exposure opportunity as a mechanism linking youth marijuana use to hallucinogen use. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. 2002; 66: 127-135.

Smeriglio V, Wilcox H. Prenatal drug exposure and child outcome: past, present & future. Clinics in Perinatalogy. 1999; 26(1): 1-16.

Field TM, Scafidi F, Pickens J, Prodromidis M, Pelaez-Nogueras M, Torquati J, Wilcox H, Malphurs J, Schanberg S, Kuhn C. Polydrug-using adolescent mothers and their infants receiving early intervention. Adolescence. 1998; 33(129): 117-43.

Wilcox H, Field T, Prodromidis M, Scafidi F. Correlations between the BDI and CES-D in a sample of adolescent mothers. Adolescence. 1998; 33(131): 565-74.