
Suzanne Wenzel
Expert in homelessness, substance abuse treatment, and post-traumatic stress disorder in women
Professor, USC School of Social Work
Contact at: (213) 740-0819 or swenzel@usc.edu
Expertise:
- homelessness and homeless women
- post-traumatic stress disorder in women
- HIV and AIDS
- sexual risk behavior and risk reduction
- drug and alcohol abuse
- substance abuse treatment
- Served as senior behavioral scientist, RAND Corporation
- Recipient, RAND Corporation President's Award for Research (2007), RAND Corporation Merit Award for Service as Research Quality Assurance Manager (2007)
- Elected fellow, Association for Psychological Science (2008)
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
- Member: American Public Health Association; Society for Community Research and Action; Board of Directors, Upward Bound House, Santa Monica
- Ph.D. in Community Psychology, the University of Texas at Austin
- NIMH postdoctoral fellowship, Rutgers/Princeton Program in Mental Health Research
- Author, more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Recipient, $9.8 million in funding from multiple agencies of the National Institutes of Health
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