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2008

Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2008). Adolescencia y Reisgos en Salud. Invited address, Chilean Society of Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology, Santiago Chile.

Campbell, B., Griffith, D.M., Shirey, L., Kruger, D.J., Robinson, K.J. & Leverette, E. (October 2008). Getting the facts: Using a local community health survey for community mobilization around HIV/AIDS. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Kretman, S., Morrel-Samuels, S., Zimmerman, M., Roberts, E.E., Franzen, S., Reischl, T., Shariff, N., Bell, L., Tyson, Y. (October 2008) Empowering youth to create change: A community-level violence prevention curriculum. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Kruger, D.J., Carty, D.C., Turner, T.M., Campbell, B., DeLoney, E.H., Lewis, E.Y. ( October 2008). Developing and monitoring system change around social determinants of health: Lessons learned from a successful infant mortality reduction program. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Kruger, D.J., DeLoney, E.H., Sparks, A., Sonnega, J. (October 2008 ). Health impact of incarceration on friends and family in the community. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Rodriguez-Hager, R., Lewis, E.Y., De Loney, E.H., Platt, J.E. (October 2008). Communities of color: Perspectives on race-based medicine. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Sparks, A., Howell, C., Johnson, T., Kannan, S. (October 2008). Design and implementation of the Five-by-Five community fruit-stand activity in Flint, Michigan. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA.

Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M.A., Caldwell, C.H., Xue, Y., Gee, G. (August, 2008). Sex partner age differences and sex risk behaviors among African American youth. Paper presented at the 2008 International World AIDS Conference, Mexico City.

Reischl, T.M., Kaminski, J., Zimmerman, M.A., Kruger, D.J., Morrel-Samuels, S., Franzen, S., Roberts, E. (May, 2008). The challenges of empowering youth to mobilize community-level change and to evaluate the effects. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Francisco, CA.

Hurd, N., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2008). Natural Mentors and Adolescent Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of African American Youth Transitioning into Adulthood. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

2007

Campbell, B., Griffith, D. M., Robinson, K., Lewis, Y., De Loney, E. H., & Sparks, A. (2007). Your Blessed Health: Balancing chruch doctine and HIV education. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

Cunningham, R.M., Walton, M.A., Zimmerman, M., Stanley, R., Chermack, S.T., Bingham, C.R., Shope, J. (May 2007). SafERTeens: Computerized Screening and Brief Intervention for Teens At-Risk for Youth Violence. Abstract #264 presented at the 2007 SAEM Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Cunningham, R.M., Walton, M.A., Xue, Y., Stanley, R., Manchio, A., Zimmerman, M.A., Chermack, S.T., Bingham, R., Shope, J., Blow, F.C. (October 2007). Injuries among teens seeking care in an inner city ER: An opportunity for universal screening. Paper presentation at the 2007 Injury and Violence Prevention Research Conference (SAVIR).

Griffith, D. M., De Loney, E. H., Allen, J. O., Campbell, B., Lewis, Y., & Sparks, A. (2007). Race, racism and CBPR: Taming the elephant in the room. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.

Hudson, D.L., Khan, A., Zimmerman, M.A., Devnarain, B. (November 2007). Exploring Factors of Youth Violence in South Africa. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Hurd, N., Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 30, 2007). Negative adult influences and the protective effects of role models: A study with African American adolescents. Paper presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Reischl, T., Zimmerman, M.A., Morrel-Samuels, S., Franzen, S., Roberts, E.E., Tyson, Y. (November 2007). Youth Empowerment Solutions: Connecting Youth with Neighborhood organizations to Create Community Change. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Walton, M.A., Cunningham, R.M., Chermack, S.T., Zimmerman, M., Bingham, C.R., Shope, J., Blow, F.C. (June 2007). Multiple risk behaviors among teens at an urban emergency department: Alcohol and violence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Chicago, IL.

Zimmerman, M.A. (March 31, 2007). Discussant at a paper symposium, Examining cultural validity in the risk identification of ethnically diverse children and adolescents. Paper presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

2006

Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M., Xue, Y., Caldwell, C. (November 8, 2006). Working during adolescence and emerging adulthood and exposure to older sex partners: Sex risk behaviors among African American youth. Paper presented at the 2006 American Public Health Association meeting, Boston, MA.

Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M.A., Xue, Y., Caldwell, C. (August 16, 2006). Employment during adolescence and emerging adulthood: Does working increase African American youth's sex risk behaviors? Paper presented at the 2006 International World AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Griffith, D. M., De Loney, E. H., Allen, J. O., Campbell, B., Lewis, Y., & Sparks, A. (2006). Costs of participation for community-based organizations: Building stability and capacity to address health disparities. Boston, MA.

Kruger, D. J., Noble, K., & Shirey, L. A. (2006). Planning diabetes intervention efforts with geographical information systems. Boston, MA.

Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2006). Alcohol use and violent behavior among African American youth from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence 2006 Biennial Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A., Barnett, T. (March 2006). Longitudinal relationships between exposure to community violence and violent behavior among urban African American adolescents. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence 2006 Biennial Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2006). A youth participation model for assessing environmental risk and protective factors and developing interventions for youth violence in Flint, Michigan. Paper presented at the 8th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. Durban, South Africa.

Zimmerman, M.A., Schwartz, R. (November 2, 2006). Publish or Perish? Pre-Conference Workshop III presenter at the 57th annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, Boston, MA.

Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2006). Examining cultural validity in the risk identification of ethnically diverse children and adolescents. Discussant at the 2006 American Public Health Association meeting, Boston, MA.

2005

Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2005). Resilience and sexual risk behavior among urban adolescents: The compensatory and protective effects of mother and father support. Paper presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (December, 2005). Sexual risk behaviour growth trajectories in adolescence and young adulthood: Models of resilience. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association´s 133rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Griffith, D. M., Tran, A. N., Mason, M., Cotten, M., Fearrington, N. D., Horton, E., et al. (2005). Am I my brother's keeper? the role of socialization in African American men's help-seeking. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A., Caldwell, C.H. (April 2005). Neighborhood disadvantage and urban youth's cigarette smoking: The protective role of prosocial activities. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2005). Youth violence: Application of empowerment theory and adolescent resilience. Paper presented at Columbia University, New York, NY.

2004

Kohn-Wood, L.P., Barnett, T.E., Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Chavous-Sellers, T., Sellers, R.M., Behrendt, D.E. (March, 2004). Gender effects in the association between depressive symptoms and violent behavior over time. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (July 2004). Sexual risk behavior in adolescence and the transition to adulthood: Specification of a piecewise growth model for a predominantly African-American sample. Paper presented at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

Zimmerman, M.A. (May 2004). Keynote speaker at the European Association for Research on Adolescence meeting, Porto, Portugal.

Zimmerman, M., Bauermeister, J.A., Barnett, T., Caldwell, C.H. (August 2004). Working in high school and the transition to adulthood among African American youth. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association meeting, Honolulu, HI.

2003

Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A., Barnett, T.E. (November 2003). Sexual risk behavior among African-American adolescents: A model of the effects of parental social support. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Griffith, D. M., Mebane, E.M., Allison, L.L., Eng, E., & Thomas, J. C. (2003). Exploring ecological factors impacting rural African American men's health. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA.

Steinman, K.J., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2003). Patterns of religious activity during adolescence: Stability, change and influences on risk behavior. Paper presented at the Integrating Research on Spirituality and Health and Well-Being into Service Delivery: A Research Conference, held on the NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD.

2002

Bryant, A.L., Gao, R., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). What do adolescents do after school? Extracurricular participation and psychosocial outcomes among adolescents from urban schools. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Bryant, A.L., Gao, R., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). Do urban youth profit from sports, church and school activities? Examining extracurricular participation and adolescent outcomes. Paper presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2002). Antecedents of cigarette smoking trajectories among urban, African-American adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Morrel Samuels, S., Zimmerman, M.A., Tarver, D., White, S., Wong, N., Buchanan, S. (May 2002). Guns, Greed and Gossip: A Qualitative Analysis of Student Essays on Youth Violence. Paper presented at the 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Schmeelk-Cone, K.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Abelson, J. (April 2002). Cortisol reactivity in a non-threatening situation: Relation to current and past behavior. Paper presentation at the Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Schmeelk-Cone, K.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). Transitions to adulthood affect violent behavior, risky sexual behavior and substance use in Caucasian and African-American youth. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Zimmerman, M.A., Morrel Samuels, S. (May 2002). Flint Youth Violence Prevention Center. Paper presented at 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Zimmerman, M.A. (May 2002). Empowerment theory and implications for practice. Keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Michigan Dietetic Association, Livonia, MI.

Zimmerman, M.A, Cowan, A., Collett van Rooyen, C., Lecher, A. (June 2002). Violent behavior among South African adolescents: The protective effects of organizational involvement. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society annual conference, New Orleans, LA.

2001

Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Bernat, D.H. & Sellers, R.M. (April 2001). Racial identity, maternal support, and psychological distress among African American adolescents. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Sellers, R.M., Caldwell, C.H., Bernat, D.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Racial identity and alcohol use in a sample of academically at-risk African American high school students. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Chavous, T., Bernat, D.H., Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Racial identity and academic outcomes among African American adolescents: A person-oriented approach. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Davis, M.M., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Psychosocial factors and parenting behavior in young adulthood. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Society, Baltimore, MD.

Steinman, K., Zimmerman, M.A. (June 2001). Religiosity and risk behavior among African-American adolescents: Concurrent association and longitudinal influence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC.

Zimmerman, M.A., Schmeelk-Cone, K.H. (August 2001). Racial identity, discrimination, and psychological distress among high school students. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Zimmerman, M.A., Bingenheimer, J.B., Notaro, P. (August 2001). Natural mentors and adolescent resiliency: A study with urban youth. Paper presented to the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Holden, D.J., Austin, W.D., Evans, W.D., Zimmerman, MA., Messeri, P., Haviland, L. (October 2001). Development of a survey to assess youth empowerment within the context of tobacco control. Paper presented at the 129th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA.

Tarver, D.B., Wong, N.T., Neighbors, H.W., Zimmerman, M.A. (December 2001). Suicidal ideation and father involvement among African American male adolescents: A study of resiliency. Paper presented at SafeUSA Conference, Atlanta, GA.

2000

Zimmerman, M.A. (February 2000). The Flint Adolescent Study: An analysis of resiliency theory. Paper presented at the School of Public Health, Habana, Cuba.

Zimmerman, M.A. (February 2000). HIV-AIDS prevention strategies for community-based programs. Paper presented at the School of Public Health, Habana, Cuba.

Miller, A.L., Notaro, P.C., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Stability and change in friendship orientation: Associations with multiple domains of urban African-American adolescent functioning. Paper presented at the eighth biennial meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Bingenheimer, J.B., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Parental and peer attachment, family decision making and natural mentors among urban youth. Paper presented at the eighth biennial meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Academic experiences and attitudes and change in substance use during adolescence: Integrating developmental, motivational, and contextual perspectives. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Notaro, P.C., Gelman, S.A., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2000). Domain boundaries in cognitive development: Children's reasoning about the consequences of psychogenic bodily reactions. Paper presented at the 16th biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Memphis, TN.

Newman, P.A. & Zimmerman, M.A. (July 2000). Cumulative risk and protective factors for HIV related sexual behavior among urban adolescents: A social ecological approach. Paper presented at the International Conference on AIDS, South Africa.

1999

Bentler, P.M., Newcomb, M.D., Zimmerman, M.A. (January 1999). Cigarette use and drug use progression: A comparison of growth trajectory and lagged effect hypotheses. Paper presented at the Conference on Stages and Pathways of Involvement in Drug Use: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis. UCLA, Los Angeles.

Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Integrating theory and practice: Psychology and public health. Paper presented at the Flemish Health Psychology Society, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.

Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Empowerment theory: Implications for research and practice. Invited paper presented at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, Brussels, Belgium.

Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Fathers and adolescent resiliency-results from the Flint Adolescent Study. Presentation at the 4th annual Dr. Fleming A. Barbour Community Conference, Flint, MI.

Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 1999). Adolescent substance use and school apathy: A developmental perspective examining motivational, peer, and family factors. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 1999). Adolescent substance use and school apathy: Examining the link from a developmental perspective. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Sellers, R.M., Caldwell, C., Zimmerman, M.A., Hilkene, D. (June 1999). Racial identity and substance abuse in a sample of academically at-risk, African-American, high-school students. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, New Haven, CT.

Zimmerman, M.A. (November 1999). Publication issues in public health education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, Chicago, IL.



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Publications & Presentations Journal Articles and Book Chapters Technical Reports and Other Publications Conference Presentations Speak To Your Health! News Briefs View Publications and presentations related to a project from the project page	Conference Papers and Presentations 2008 Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2008). Adolescencia y Reisgos en Salud. Invited address, Chilean Society of Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology, Santiago Chile. Campbell, B., Griffith, D.M., Shirey, L., Kruger, D.J., Robinson, K.J. & Leverette, E. (October 2008). Getting the facts: Using a local community health survey for community mobilization around HIV/AIDS. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Kretman, S., Morrel-Samuels, S., Zimmerman, M., Roberts, E.E., Franzen, S., Reischl, T., Shariff, N., Bell, L., Tyson, Y. (October 2008) Empowering youth to create change: A community-level violence prevention curriculum. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Kruger, D.J., Carty, D.C., Turner, T.M., Campbell, B., DeLoney, E.H., Lewis, E.Y. ( October 2008). Developing and monitoring system change around social determinants of health: Lessons learned from a successful infant mortality reduction program. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Kruger, D.J., DeLoney, E.H., Sparks, A., Sonnega, J. (October 2008 ). Health impact of incarceration on friends and family in the community. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Rodriguez-Hager, R., Lewis, E.Y., De Loney, E.H., Platt, J.E. (October 2008). Communities of color: Perspectives on race-based medicine. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Sparks, A., Howell, C., Johnson, T., Kannan, S. (October 2008). Design and implementation of the Five-by-Five community fruit-stand activity in Flint, Michigan. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA. Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M.A., Caldwell, C.H., Xue, Y., Gee, G. (August, 2008). Sex partner age differences and sex risk behaviors among African American youth. Paper presented at the 2008 International World AIDS Conference, Mexico City. Reischl, T.M., Kaminski, J., Zimmerman, M.A., Kruger, D.J., Morrel-Samuels, S., Franzen, S., Roberts, E. (May, 2008). The challenges of empowering youth to mobilize community-level change and to evaluate the effects. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Francisco, CA. Hurd, N., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2008). Natural Mentors and Adolescent Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of African American Youth Transitioning into Adulthood. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL. 2007 Campbell, B., Griffith, D. M., Robinson, K., Lewis, Y., De Loney, E. H., & Sparks, A. (2007). Your Blessed Health: Balancing chruch doctine and HIV education. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. Cunningham, R.M., Walton, M.A., Zimmerman, M., Stanley, R., Chermack, S.T., Bingham, C.R., Shope, J. (May 2007). SafERTeens: Computerized Screening and Brief Intervention for Teens At-Risk for Youth Violence. Abstract #264 presented at the 2007 SAEM Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Cunningham, R.M., Walton, M.A., Xue, Y., Stanley, R., Manchio, A., Zimmerman, M.A., Chermack, S.T., Bingham, R., Shope, J., Blow, F.C. (October 2007). Injuries among teens seeking care in an inner city ER: An opportunity for universal screening. Paper presentation at the 2007 Injury and Violence Prevention Research Conference (SAVIR). Griffith, D. M., De Loney, E. H., Allen, J. O., Campbell, B., Lewis, Y., & Sparks, A. (2007). Race, racism and CBPR: Taming the elephant in the room. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. Hudson, D.L., Khan, A., Zimmerman, M.A., Devnarain, B. (November 2007). Exploring Factors of Youth Violence in South Africa. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Hurd, N., Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 30, 2007). Negative adult influences and the protective effects of role models: A study with African American adolescents. Paper presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. Reischl, T., Zimmerman, M.A., Morrel-Samuels, S., Franzen, S., Roberts, E.E., Tyson, Y. (November 2007). Youth Empowerment Solutions: Connecting Youth with Neighborhood organizations to Create Community Change. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Walton, M.A., Cunningham, R.M., Chermack, S.T., Zimmerman, M., Bingham, C.R., Shope, J., Blow, F.C. (June 2007). Multiple risk behaviors among teens at an urban emergency department: Alcohol and violence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Chicago, IL. Zimmerman, M.A. (March 31, 2007). Discussant at a paper symposium, Examining cultural validity in the risk identification of ethnically diverse children and adolescents. Paper presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. 2006 Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M., Xue, Y., Caldwell, C. (November 8, 2006). Working during adolescence and emerging adulthood and exposure to older sex partners: Sex risk behaviors among African American youth. Paper presented at the 2006 American Public Health Association meeting, Boston, MA. Bauermeister, J.A., Zimmerman, M.A., Xue, Y., Caldwell, C. (August 16, 2006). Employment during adolescence and emerging adulthood: Does working increase African American youth's sex risk behaviors? Paper presented at the 2006 International World AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada. Griffith, D. M., De Loney, E. H., Allen, J. O., Campbell, B., Lewis, Y., & Sparks, A. (2006). Costs of participation for community-based organizations: Building stability and capacity to address health disparities. Boston, MA. Kruger, D. J., Noble, K., & Shirey, L. A. (2006). Planning diabetes intervention efforts with geographical information systems. Boston, MA. Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2006). Alcohol use and violent behavior among African American youth from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence 2006 Biennial Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A., Barnett, T. (March 2006). Longitudinal relationships between exposure to community violence and violent behavior among urban African American adolescents. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence 2006 Biennial Meeting. San Francisco, CA. Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2006). A youth participation model for assessing environmental risk and protective factors and developing interventions for youth violence in Flint, Michigan. Paper presented at the 8th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. Durban, South Africa. Zimmerman, M.A., Schwartz, R. (November 2, 2006). Publish or Perish? Pre-Conference Workshop III presenter at the 57th annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, Boston, MA. Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2006). Examining cultural validity in the risk identification of ethnically diverse children and adolescents. Discussant at the 2006 American Public Health Association meeting, Boston, MA. 2005 Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2005). Resilience and sexual risk behavior among urban adolescents: The compensatory and protective effects of mother and father support. Paper presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (December, 2005). Sexual risk behaviour growth trajectories in adolescence and young adulthood: Models of resilience. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association´s 133rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Griffith, D. M., Tran, A. N., Mason, M., Cotten, M., Fearrington, N. D., Horton, E., et al. (2005). Am I my brother's keeper? the role of socialization in African American men's help-seeking. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Xue, Y., Zimmerman, M.A., Caldwell, C.H. (April 2005). Neighborhood disadvantage and urban youth's cigarette smoking: The protective role of prosocial activities. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2005). Youth violence: Application of empowerment theory and adolescent resilience. Paper presented at Columbia University, New York, NY. 2004 Kohn-Wood, L.P., Barnett, T.E., Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Chavous-Sellers, T., Sellers, R.M., Behrendt, D.E. (March, 2004). Gender effects in the association between depressive symptoms and violent behavior over time. Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (July 2004). Sexual risk behavior in adolescence and the transition to adulthood: Specification of a piecewise growth model for a predominantly African-American sample. Paper presented at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. Zimmerman, M.A. (May 2004). Keynote speaker at the European Association for Research on Adolescence meeting, Porto, Portugal. Zimmerman, M., Bauermeister, J.A., Barnett, T., Caldwell, C.H. (August 2004). Working in high school and the transition to adulthood among African American youth. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association meeting, Honolulu, HI. 2003 Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A., Barnett, T.E. (November 2003). Sexual risk behavior among African-American adolescents: A model of the effects of parental social support. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association meeting, San Francisco, CA. Griffith, D. M., Mebane, E.M., Allison, L.L., Eng, E., & Thomas, J. C. (2003). Exploring ecological factors impacting rural African American men's health. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA. Steinman, K.J., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2003). Patterns of religious activity during adolescence: Stability, change and influences on risk behavior. Paper presented at the Integrating Research on Spirituality and Health and Well-Being into Service Delivery: A Research Conference, held on the NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. 2002 Bryant, A.L., Gao, R., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). What do adolescents do after school? Extracurricular participation and psychosocial outcomes among adolescents from urban schools. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. Bryant, A.L., Gao, R., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). Do urban youth profit from sports, church and school activities? Examining extracurricular participation and adolescent outcomes. Paper presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA. Fergus, S., Zimmerman, M.A. (November 2002). Antecedents of cigarette smoking trajectories among urban, African-American adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Morrel Samuels, S., Zimmerman, M.A., Tarver, D., White, S., Wong, N., Buchanan, S. (May 2002). Guns, Greed and Gossip: A Qualitative Analysis of Student Essays on Youth Violence. Paper presented at the 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Schmeelk-Cone, K.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Abelson, J. (April 2002). Cortisol reactivity in a non-threatening situation: Relation to current and past behavior. Paper presentation at the Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Schmeelk-Cone, K.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2002). Transitions to adulthood affect violent behavior, risky sexual behavior and substance use in Caucasian and African-American youth. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA. Zimmerman, M.A., Morrel Samuels, S. (May 2002). Flint Youth Violence Prevention Center. Paper presented at 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zimmerman, M.A. (May 2002). Empowerment theory and implications for practice. Keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Michigan Dietetic Association, Livonia, MI. Zimmerman, M.A, Cowan, A., Collett van Rooyen, C., Lecher, A. (June 2002). Violent behavior among South African adolescents: The protective effects of organizational involvement. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society annual conference, New Orleans, LA. 2001 Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A., Bernat, D.H. & Sellers, R.M. (April 2001). Racial identity, maternal support, and psychological distress among African American adolescents. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN. Sellers, R.M., Caldwell, C.H., Bernat, D.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Racial identity and alcohol use in a sample of academically at-risk African American high school students. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN. Chavous, T., Bernat, D.H., Caldwell, C.H., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Racial identity and academic outcomes among African American adolescents: A person-oriented approach. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN. Davis, M.M., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2001). Psychosocial factors and parenting behavior in young adulthood. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Society, Baltimore, MD. Steinman, K., Zimmerman, M.A. (June 2001). Religiosity and risk behavior among African-American adolescents: Concurrent association and longitudinal influence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC. Zimmerman, M.A., Schmeelk-Cone, K.H. (August 2001). Racial identity, discrimination, and psychological distress among high school students. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. Zimmerman, M.A., Bingenheimer, J.B., Notaro, P. (August 2001). Natural mentors and adolescent resiliency: A study with urban youth. Paper presented to the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. Holden, D.J., Austin, W.D., Evans, W.D., Zimmerman, MA., Messeri, P., Haviland, L. (October 2001). Development of a survey to assess youth empowerment within the context of tobacco control. Paper presented at the 129th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA. Tarver, D.B., Wong, N.T., Neighbors, H.W., Zimmerman, M.A. (December 2001). Suicidal ideation and father involvement among African American male adolescents: A study of resiliency. Paper presented at SafeUSA Conference, Atlanta, GA. 2000 Zimmerman, M.A. (February 2000). The Flint Adolescent Study: An analysis of resiliency theory. Paper presented at the School of Public Health, Habana, Cuba. Zimmerman, M.A. (February 2000). HIV-AIDS prevention strategies for community-based programs. Paper presented at the School of Public Health, Habana, Cuba. Miller, A.L., Notaro, P.C., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Stability and change in friendship orientation: Associations with multiple domains of urban African-American adolescent functioning. Paper presented at the eighth biennial meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL. Bingenheimer, J.B., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Parental and peer attachment, family decision making and natural mentors among urban youth. Paper presented at the eighth biennial meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL. Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (March 2000). Academic experiences and attitudes and change in substance use during adolescence: Integrating developmental, motivational, and contextual perspectives. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. Notaro, P.C., Gelman, S.A., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 2000). Domain boundaries in cognitive development: Children's reasoning about the consequences of psychogenic bodily reactions. Paper presented at the 16th biennial meeting of the Conference on Human Development, Memphis, TN. Newman, P.A. & Zimmerman, M.A. (July 2000). Cumulative risk and protective factors for HIV related sexual behavior among urban adolescents: A social ecological approach. Paper presented at the International Conference on AIDS, South Africa. 1999 Bentler, P.M., Newcomb, M.D., Zimmerman, M.A. (January 1999). Cigarette use and drug use progression: A comparison of growth trajectory and lagged effect hypotheses. Paper presented at the Conference on Stages and Pathways of Involvement in Drug Use: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis. UCLA, Los Angeles. Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Integrating theory and practice: Psychology and public health. Paper presented at the Flemish Health Psychology Society, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium. Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Empowerment theory: Implications for research and practice. Invited paper presented at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, Brussels, Belgium. Zimmerman, M.A. (March 1999). Fathers and adolescent resiliency-results from the Flint Adolescent Study. Presentation at the 4th annual Dr. Fleming A. Barbour Community Conference, Flint, MI. Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 1999). Adolescent substance use and school apathy: A developmental perspective examining motivational, peer, and family factors. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM. Bryant, A.L., Zimmerman, M.A. (April 1999). Adolescent substance use and school apathy: Examining the link from a developmental perspective. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM. Sellers, R.M., Caldwell, C., Zimmerman, M.A., Hilkene, D. (June 1999). Racial identity and substance abuse in a sample of academically at-risk, African-American, high-school students. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, New Haven, CT. Zimmerman, M.A. (November 1999). Publication issues in public health education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, Chicago, IL.
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