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Daniel Max Crowley

Postdoctoral Associate

Max Crowley is a postdoctoral associate who joined the Center in 2012. His work focuses on strengthening benefit-cost analyses of prevention programs and delivery systems. Crowley’s research includes: (1) developing analytic techniques for increasing the economic evaluations relevance for public policy, (2) modeling the resource needs and economic impact of evidence-based prevention efforts, and (3) increasing standards for evaluating the efficiency of prevention efforts. He is particularly interested in using emerging informatics and eHealth technologies to enhance the efficiency of community-based efforts to prevent mental, emotional and behavioral disorders in youth.

Crowley is co-chair of the Prevention Efficiency Planning and Research (PEPR) network, a transdisciplinary collaboration formed to meet growing demand for estimates of the social and economic value of prevention strategies for improving public health.

Research Interests

• Prevention
• Benefit-Cost Analyses
• Casual Inference

Education:

• Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University -
• M.S. Pennsylvania State University -

Recent Publications

1. Crowley, D. M., Coffman, D. L., Feinberg, M. E., & Greenberg, M. T. (in press). Evaluating the Impact of Implementation Factors on Family-Based Prevention Programming: Methods for Strengthening Causal Inference. Prevention Science.


2. Crowley, D. M., Jones, D. E., Greenberg, M. T., Feinberg, M. E., & Spoth, R. (2012). Resource Consumption of a Diffusion Model for Prevention Programs: The PROSPER Delivery System. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(3), 256-263. [doi]


3. Crowley, D. M., Greenberg, M. T., Feinberg, M. E., Spoth, R., & Redmond, C. R. (2011). The Effect of the PROSPER Partnership Model on Cultivating Local Stakeholder Knowledge of Evidence-Based Programs: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study of 28 Communities. Prevention Science. [doi]


4. Guyll, M., Spoth, R., & Crowley, D. M. (2011). Economic analysis of methamphetamine prevention effects and employer costs. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72(4), 577-585.

1. Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Real-Word Prevention Efforts: Approaches for Estimating the Value of Evidence-Based Programming, Annual Conference of the Society for Prevention Research. Washington, D.C., 6 August 2012
2. Economic Evaluation within Prevention Science: New Frontiers, Paper symposium organized for the Society for Prevention Research’s Annual Conference. Washington, DC., 6 August 2012
3. Considering Research Priorities in Economic Analyses of Prevention: Current Issues, Standards, and Future Directions, Scientific Dialogue held at the Society for Prevention Research’s Annual Conference, Washington, DC., 2011
4. Conducting Economic Analyses in Prevention Research: Methods & Tools for Evaluating the Impact of Prevention, Pre-conference workshop held at the Society for Prevention Research’s Annual Conference, Washington, DC., 2011