Audrey M. Shillington, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Dr. Shillington is a Professor at the School of Social Work, and an adjunct professor with the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University. Dr. Shillington received her Ph.D. from Washington University. She was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow and received a Masters in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the School of Medicine at Washington University. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow she was a Research Associate on several National Institute on Drug Abuse funded epidemiology projects among substance users. Specifically, these studies examined the co-morbidity of drug and alcohol diagnoses with psychiatric diagnoses and HIV risk behaviors. Her research has continued to focus on substance abuse and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults. She is a Research Investigator for the SDSU Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health. Dr. Shillington is Co-Investigator of a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded study, and a U.S. Department of Education funded project to prevent heavy alcohol use among young adults. She has been the Principal Investigator of two University of California AIDS Research Program (UARP) funded HIV prevention projects. One project was a four-year, four-site collaborative evaluation study of newly created drop-in centers for high risk youth. These centers are open to youth of differing needs including alcohol and drug use, homeless/runaway, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual youth (LGBT), and minority youth, in both urban and rural settings. The second project was an experimental design study of test group interventions for risk reduction among recently separated and divorced women.

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