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Judith
Lynne Sobel Education M.P.H. 1981-83, Public Health, University of California - Los Angeles M.A. 1975-77, Mass Communication Research, University of Minnesota B.A. 1970-75, Information Science and Community Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz ___________________________________________________________ Employment 9/85 - 6/92, Assistant Professor of Health Education, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 8/84 - 8/85, Assistant Research Professor, Health Behavior Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 4/81 - 7/84, Research Associate, Health Behavior Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 7/78 - 12/80, Predoctoral NIH Training Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 6/76 - 9/76, Research Assistant to Dr. James Brown representing KQED Public Television, San Francisco, California 6/74 - 7/74, Instructional Media Intern, Department of Community Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz, California 3/73 - 9/73, Public Relations
Intern, The Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington D.C.
Research & Scholarly
Reports 1997 Content analysed promotional media coverage of the 1996 Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure. Race For the Cure Evaluation: Media Summary was presented to the Oregon Chapter of Susan B. Komen Foundation. 1997 Gelmon, S, Brown, E. and Sobel, J.: "The Educational Impact of the Race for the Cure: The Portland Experience. A report to the Susan B. Komen Foundation. 1997 Developed student-community partnerships. Designed media campaign messages for the Healthy Communities Organization using curent communication theory and methods. 1995 Examined questions and analysed data regarding disability and quality of life issues among Oregonians (with Claire Segawa and Joyce Grant Worley) drawn from the Oregon version of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey. Numerous problems with the data and the ordering of the questions on the survey were revealed. Results were presented to a small group of researchers at the Oregon Health Division in Spring 1995. 1993 Designed and constructed evaluation components for the summer health education project known as "The Health Club" at University Park Recreation Center. Included in this work were 3 unique survey forms designed to solicit student evaluations of speakers, student involvement in projects, and health educator assessment of classes. Report prepared by student interns. 1993 Designed and constructed pre-and post-evaluation surveys conducted to assess the effectiveness of peer based education in studying HIV prevention. Survey questions were derived from an assortment of previously analysed questions used in past studies reported in the literature. Report to CDC. ___________________________________________________________ Publications Sobel, J, Curtin A, and Fell, D: The Oregon Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project: The legacy of a mammogram screening campaign. Health Values, 1991, 15 (1), 3-8. Sobel, J: The Oregon Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project: A Retrospective. Journal of Health Education, 1990, 21 (6), 62. Sobel, JL: Drug and Alcohol Education Course Work at Portland State University. In NorthwestRegional Educational Laboratory Publication: A Directory of Course Work in Drug and Alcohol Education, March 1990. Sobel, J, Gordon, D, Kristal, A, Eklund, A, Curtin, A, and Kennedy, P: The Oregon Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project: Evaluation of a Mammogram Screening Campaign. Advances in Cancer Control: Innovations and Research. Paul Anderson, et. al. (eds) 1989. Hansen, WB, Johnson, CA, Flay, BR, Graham, JW, and Sobel, JL: Affective and social influence approaches to the prevention of multiple substance abuse among seventh grade students: Results from Project SMART, Preventive Medicine, 1988, 17, 1-20. Sussman, S, Flay, BR, Sobel, JL, Ranch, JM, Hansen, WB, Johnson, CA: Viewing and evaluation of a televised drug education program by students previously or concurrently exposed or not exposed to school-based substance abuse prevention programs. Health Education Research:Theory and Practice, 1987, 2, 373-383. Graham, JW, Hansen, WB, Sobel, JL, Shelton, JL, Flay, BR, and Johnson, CA: The consistency of peer and parent influences on tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use among young adolescents. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 1987, 10, 559-579. Flay, BR, Johnson, CA, Hansen, WB, Ulene, A, Grossman, LM, Alvarez, L, Sobol, DF, Hochstein, G and Sobel, JL: Evaluation of a mass media enhanced smoking prevention and cessation program. IN: JP Baggaley and J Sharpe (Eds), Experimental Research in Televised Instruction (Vol V). Montreal: Concordia Univ. Press 1985, pp. 189-201. Luepker, RV, Jacobs, DR, Brown, JW, Sobel, JL and Prineas, R: Hypertension control in two ruralcommunities. Minn Med 1984, 67, 341-344. Graham, JW, Flay, BR, Johnson, CA, Hansen, WB, Grossman, L and Sobel, JL: Reliability of self-report measures of drug use in prevention research: Evaluation of the Project SMART questionnaire via the test-retest reliability matrix. J Drug Edu Eval 14(2), 1984. Flay, BR and Sobel, JL: The role of mass media in preventing adolescent substance abuse. IN: T Glynn (Ed), preventing Adolescent Drug Abuse: Intervention Strategies, Public Health Service, NIDA Research Monograph #47, A RAUS Review Report, 1983. Johnson, CA, Hansen, WB,
Flay, BR, and Sobel, JL: Project SMART: A social approach to drug
abuse prevention. Teacher's Guide, 2nd ed, Health Behavior Research
Institute/University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1983, 178
pp. __________________________________________________________________ Dissertation Research ___________________________________________________________ Grants 1996 Greater Portland Chapter, Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation: Evaluation Coordinator, The Educational Impact of the Race for the Cure. Co-Investigator (Principle Investigator- S. Gelmon, PSU) Funded for $9974.00. 1993 Centers for Disease Control: Peer HIV Education Training Conference Grant. Evaluation Consultant (Principle Investigator- D.Graff-Haight, PSU) Funded for $21,000. 1993-94 Portland State University: Initiatives in Undergraduate Curriculum Development: Co-applicant. Funded for $8,000. 1987-89 American Cancer Society, Oregon Division: Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project Summary Report and Follow-up Analysis. ($37,000:two year funding). Principal Investigator 1987-1989. |