Susan Woodruff, Ph.D.
CASBIRT Data Analyst

Dr. Woodruff is a professor in the School of Social Work, and an epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in the area of health risk research, much of it with underserved, high risk, and understudied populations. She received a Masters degree in experimental psychology and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University. Prior to her current position, she was a civilian Research Psychologist with the Naval Health Research Center, Epidemiology and Health Services Department. Her areas of expertise include survey instrument development, program evaluation (i.e., pre-post change analysis), measurement/methodological issues, research design, and statistical data analysis.

Dr. Woodruff has served as investigator, statistician, and data analyst on several large epidemiological and intervention studies. She has served as principal investigator on a project testing an Internet virtual world chat room approach to smoking cessation for young smokers in San Diego high schools, and on an intervention study to reduce environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the home by providing smoking parents' feedback about their children's level of nicotine and cotinine use. She was also an investigator on a large DoD-funded effort to assess relapse prevention strategies for U.S. Navy women smokers, and helped conduct a follow-up of this large group of female smokers. In addition to tobacco use and ETS assessment, Dr. Woodruff has worked in the areas of skin cancer, breast cancer, nutrition, health policy, lifestyle habits including exercise and alcohol consumption, and trauma. Dr. Woodruff has also authored and co-authored over 100 articles in scientific journals.

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