Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Institute for Prevention Science. He works primarily on ParentCorps, a population-level family-centered, school-based intervention that aims to attenuate the adverse effects of poverty on child development. Dr. Palamar manages data, oversees data quality assurance, and prepares longitudinal data for analysis. He also conducts data analysis and contributes to the write-up and submission of manuscripts for publication. 

His research interests include predictors of risk behavior such as illicit drug use and unsafe sex. His most recent research investigates how psychosocial and attitudinal factors such as stigma and religiosity predict illicit drug use in adolescents and young adults. He is also interested in how sociodemographic and neighborhood poverty factors predict conduct problems and educational achievement in urban children.

Dr. Palamar earned a PhD in Public Health from New York University. He also earned an MPH and an MA in educational psychology, both from New York University, a BA in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College (CUNY), and an AS in Criminal Justice from Nassau Community College.

Prior to joining the Child Study Center he served as a Research Assistant at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) and a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Mental Health and Addictive Disorders Research Program, both at NYU.       

Dr. Palamar is also a Faculty Research Affiliate at CHIBPS, and teaches statistics at the NYU College of Nursing. In 2010, he was honored with the NYU Steinhardt Outstanding Dissertation Award and he has published in many peer-reviewed journals including Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Addiction, International Journal of Drug Policy, Health Policy, Addiction Research & Theory, Psychology & Sexuality, Drug and Alcohol Review, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, AIDS & Behavior, AIDS Patient Care & STDs, Substance Use & Misuse, Psychopharmacology, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also Associate Editor of Behavioral Medicine.