Eve S. Puffer, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Contact Info:

Office Location:	417 Chapel Drive, 250, Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5734
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Teaching (Spring 2023):

• Glhlth 363.01, Fund. of global mental health Synopsis

  Reuben-coo 126, MW 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

• Psy 436s.01, Child clinical interventions Synopsis

  Social sciences 105, W 10:15 AM-12:45 PM

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. Sim, A; Puffer, E; Ahmad, A; Hammad, L; Georgiades, K (2023). Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada.. Bmc Public Health, 23(1), 386. [doi]  [abs]
2. Giusto, A; Jack, HE; Magidson, JF; Ayuku, D; Johnson, SL; Lovero, KL; Hankerson, SH; Sweetland, AC; Myers, B; Fortunato dos Santos, P; Puffer, ES; Wainberg, ML (2023). 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, 216770262211257-216770262211257. [doi]  [abs]
3. Schmidt, CN; Puffer, ES; Broverman, S; Warren, V; Green, EP (2022). Is social-ecological risk associated with individual HIV risk beliefs and behaviours?: An analysis of Kenyan adolescents' local communities and activity spaces.. Global Public Health, 17(12), 3670-3685. [doi]  [abs]
4. Zewdie, HY; Whetten, K; Dubie, ME; Kenea, B; Bekele, T; Temesgen, C; Molla, W; Puffer, ES; Ostermann, J; Hobbie, AM; Gray, CL (2022). The association between urban greenspace and psychological health among young adults in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.. Environmental Research, 215(Pt 1), 114258. [doi]  [abs]
5. Giusto, A; Friis-Healy, EA; Kaiser, BN; Ayuku, D; Rono, W; Puffer, ES (2022). Mechanisms of change for a family intervention in Kenya: An Integrated Clinical and Implementation Mapping approach.. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 159, 104219. [doi]  [abs]