Komro, Kelli
Profile Information
- Full Titles
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
Associate Director, Institute for Child Health Policy- Title
- Associate Professor
- Phone
- 352.265.0111 x85517
- Email Address
- komro@ufl.edu
- Fax
- 352.265.8047
- Address
1329 SW 16th Street, Room 5130
PO Box 100177
Gainesville, FL 32610-0177- Education
Ph.D. in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
M.P.H. in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
M.A. in Psychology/Behavioral Medicine, Connecticut College
B.A. in Psychology/Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin- Professional Bio
Dr. Komro is an epidemiologist specializing in the social determinants of health among children and adolescents. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating community-wide strategies to promote health among children and adolescents. She has been PI or Co-Investigator on multiple group-randomized controlled trials focusing on preventing alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use; violence; and HIV among youth, both in the U.S. and internationally, including trials in Chicago, rural Minnesota, Russia, India and Tanzania.
Dr. Komro received the 2003 Early Career Award from the Society of Prevention Research for her contributions to prevention science. She is a co-recipient of the 11th Annual Douglas S. Leather Award from the journal, Health Education Research: Theory & Practice, conferred on the authors of the article that best reflects the values that the founding editor strove to achieve. Dr. Komro’s scholarly research has been recognized both nationally and internationally as is evident from her publication and presentation list, as well as her work in Tanzania, Norway, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In addition to research, she has been recognized for her mentoring as the recipient of the American Public Health Association’s Student Caucus Mentor of the year Award in November 1999. She is a member of Delta Omega Society, the honorary public health society.
Dr. Komro received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota in 1994. She was a National Institute on Drug Abuse postdoctoral fellow from 1994 - 1995 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of Florida in October, 2004.
- Expertise
Social & Community Epidemiology, Adolescents, Comprehensive Preventive Interventions, Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, Violence, Group Randomized Trials, Health Disparities
