Eve S. Puffer, Pamela and Jack Egan Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	417 Chapel Drive, 250, Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 5734
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Education:

Ph.D.	University of South Carolina, Columbia	2008
M.A.	University of South Carolina, Columbia	2005
B.S.	Furman University	2002

Specialties:

Clinical Psychology

Research Interests:

Dr. Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating integrated community-based interventions to promote child mental health, improve family functioning, and prevent HIV risk behavior. Her work includes studies with families with young children through those with adolescents, as well as with couples. She has conducted much of this work in rural Kenya and is an investigator on multiple studies of child mental health, family well-being, and parenting interventions in Thailand, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Sudan, and Iraq. Among Dr. Puffer's primary collaborators are the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization, the Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research in Kenya, and AMPATH, a consortium between North American medical schools and Moi University in Kenya.

Areas of Interest:

Global mental health
Child and family well-being
Community- and family-based interventions
HIV prevention

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Rasmussen, JM; Johnson, SL; Ochieng, Y; Jaguga, F; Green, E; Puffer, E (2024). Congregation leader and member discussions in a church-based family strengthening, mental health promotion, and HIV prevention trial: Intervention. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 1-36. [doi]
2. Johnson, SL; Rasmussen, JM; Mansoor, M; Ibrahim, H; Rono, W; Goel, P; Vissoci, JRN; Von Isenburg, M; Puffer, ES (2024). Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration in Adolescents and Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.. Trauma, violence & abuse, 25(2), 1168-1183. [doi]  [abs]
3. Johnson, SL; Rieder, AD; Rasmussen, JM; Mansoor, M; Quick, KN; Proeschold-Bell, RJ; Coping Together Team, ; Boone, WJ; Puffer, ES (2024). A Pilot Study of the Coping Together Virtual Family Intervention: Exploring Changes in Family Functioning and Individual Well-Being.. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology. [doi]  [abs]
4. Giusto, A; Jack, HE; Magidson, JF; Ayuku, D; Johnson, S; Lovero, K; Hankerson, SH; Sweetland, AC; Myers, B; Fortunato Dos Santos, P; Puffer, ES; Wainberg, ML (2024). Global Is Local: Leveraging Global Mental-Health Methods to Promote Equity and Address Disparities in the United States.. Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 12(2), 270-289. [doi]  [abs]
5. Puffer, ES; Johnson, SL; Quick, KN; Rieder, AD; Mansoor, M; Proeschold-Bell, RJ; Jones, S; Moore-Lawrence, S; Rasmussen, JD; Cucuzzella, C; Burwell, F; Dowdy, L; Moore, F; Rosales, N; Sanyal, A; Ramachandran, P; Duerr, E; Tice, L; Ayuku, D; Boone, WJ (2024). Family Strengthening in the Context of COVID-19: Adapting a Community-Based Intervention from Kenya to the United States.. Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 25(2), 267-278. [doi]  [abs]