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Susan I. Woodruff, Ph.D.
Director
Susan I. Woodruff, Ph.D., is a behavioral epidemiologist and Professor at the School of
Social Work at San Diego State University. She has over 25 years of experience in the
area of health research, much of it with underserved, high risk, and understudied
populations, including the military. She has a master’s degree in experimental
psychology and a doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California, San
Diego/San Diego State University. Her primary area of interest over the past few years
has been tobacco and drug use prevalence, risk factor assessment, and intervention. In
addition, chronic disease behavioral risk factors among military personnel has been an
ongoing area of research.
Dr. Woodruff has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, or statistician on
several large epidemiological and intervention studies, including a large DoD-funded
effort to assess relapse prevention strategies for US Navy women smokers; evaluation
of the US Navy’s health and physical readiness program; a prospective study of the
impact of smoking at entry into boot camp on subsequent career and medical events;
evaluation of the US Navy’s Healthy Back program; program evaluation of the Navy’s
remedial conditioning program for those service members failing components of the
physical readiness test; an assessment of traumatic brain injury in Iraq and its medical,
performance, and social impact; a prospective study of mental health morbidity among
young military women; and evaluation of an experimental treatment for excessive
bleeding on the battlefield.
Dr. Woodruff served as the lead epidemiologist for Naval Health Research Center’s
Combat Trauma Registry. She was the evaluation manager on a SAMSHA-funded
project (California Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment Services--
CASBIRT), an innovative program that delivers alcohol and drug screening and services
to patients in primary health care settings.
Dr. Woodruff was also the principal investigator (with J.D. Clapp) on a NIDA-funded trial
to assess the effects of screening and brief intervention for drug use in 2 large
emergency departments. She also was the PI on a study assessing environmental
influences on alcohol misuse among Marines and the testing of screening, brief
intervention, and referral to treatment for military personnel. Dr. Woodruff has authored
and co-authored over 140 articles in scientific journals.
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