Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center
About
Adam Alexander is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His research seeks to understand the cultural, socioeconomic, and biological determinants of physical and mental health, with an emphasis on examining and explaining health disparities. His research also examines the effect of traumatic events on physical and mental health outcomes. Adam holds a doctoral degree in social and behavioral sciences from the University of Memphis, and a master's degree in general psychology, also from the University of Memphis.
Current Work:
Adam Alexander's current research explores cigarette use after Hurricane Katrina. Specifically, his research demonstrates how being exposed to traumatic subsequently increases psychological distress, which in turn, influences many aspects of smoking, including daily cigarette use, nicotine dependence, and smoking relapse. Adam is also exploring childhood adversity and the effects it has on adolescent and adult physical and mental health. He thinks that childhood adversity plays an important role in contributing to health disparities.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Health disparities, health inequality, health determinants, trauma, and childhood adversity
