Sean D. Cleary

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Sean D. Cleary is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Director of the MS and PhD Programs in Epidemiology. Dr. Cleary was trained in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City. He has over 20 years of experience designing, conducting and analyzing applied epidemiological research in a variety of settings, e.g., schools, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, prisons, and the community, both domestic and international. He has experience and training in sampling methods, psychometrics, complex survey sampling design and analysis, GIS and spatial analysis, structural equation modeling and latent growth analysis. Dr. Cleary is a ‘06-‘07 recipient of a Senior Scholar Fulbright Award in Nepal where he taught courses in basic epidemiology research Dr. Cleary began his career as an epidemiologist in the Peace Corps serving 2+ years in Thailand, working under the Ministry of Health in both the Division of Malaria and the Division of Filariasis Control. After completing his education Dr. Cleary was an Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and oversaw a 5-year longitudinal study, Temperament, Self-Control, and Adolescent Substance Use, funded by NIH/NIDA. He has also been co-investigator on studies funded by Kennedy-Krieger Institute and the Department of Defense and a statistical consultant for the Institute of Trauma and Violence, National Development and Research Institutes, for studies of the young prison population funded by NIH/NIDA. He was Co-PI of the prototype SAFER Latinos intervention (CDC) with Dr. Edberg (PCH). Dr. Cleary was also Co-I on a CDC funded study of Etiologic Frameworks to Prevent Gender Based Violence Among Immigrant Latinos (McDonnell, PCH) and Co- I on a NCI funded project on smoking cessation among pregnant women in West Virginia (Windsor, PCH) and Co-I on CDC-funded REACH grant WaterUp! (Edberg), and PI of the Adelante Intervention study (NIH/NIMHD). Dr. Cleary was a consultant with National Minority Quality Forum for over 10 years and PI on numerous research projects overseeing all research activities focusing on health disparities in minority populations. He is currently the AVANCE Center Co-Director and Co-Lead of the Collaboration & Multidisciplinary Team Science module of the CTSI-CN (PI Guay-Woodford, CNHS).

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2019 EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD - GRADUATE RESIDENTIAL

Nashman Faculty Spotlight

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Expertise

Expertise:

Epidemiology

Mental Health

Underserved Populations

Children's Health

Education:

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry & Biology), University of Connecticut, 1985

Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1990

Doctor of Philosophy (Psychiatric Epidemiology), Columbia University, 1996

Teaching:

PubH 6252 - Advanced Epidemiology Methods (Fall)

PubH 6281- Analysis of Complex Survey Data using SAS and Stata, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Spring, odds years)

PubH 6299 - The autism experience: A public health perspective (Spring)

PubH 8419- Measurement in Public Health and Health Services Research, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Spring, even years)

Sust 2002 - The Sustainable City (Spring, team taught)

Community Service:

Dr. Cleary reviews for a number of peer-review journals including Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry, Annals of Epidemiology, Journal of Adolescent Health, Archives of General Psychiatry, BMJ Open Journal, Archives of Suicide Research, and Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health.

Institutes and Centers:

HONEY W. NASHMAN CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE - Affiliate Faculty

CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE AT CHILDREN’S NATIONAL Co-Lead - Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Team Science Module

AVANCE CENTER - Co-Director

Research

Research:

Current research:

CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE AT CHILDREN’S NATIONAL (NIH): The goal of the project is to provide highly integrated, cost effective, investigator-focused resources designed to overcome obstacles to investigation, promote collaborative research, and be continuously monitored and evaluated to identify when further adaptation or modification is needed. GWU Co-Lead - Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Team Science Module

AUTISM: SCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE (Honey W. Nashman Faculty Development Grant): Community-Based Participatory Research Grant - To develop and support a sustainable academic–community partnership to facilitate the education and experiences of undergraduate and graduate students in the science and experience of autism from a public health perspective. In alignment with the GWU Visions 2021, participation in the CBCL will encourage students to pursue internships, novel research, and employment opportunities, beyond the research activities generated from the course, to improve the lives of autistic young adults/adults. PI

EVALUATION OF A NOVEL INTERVENTION TO REDUCE SSB AMONG US LATINO YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS (R21, NIDDK/NIH PI: Colon-Ramos, GH): The study addresses a novel paradigm that posits water security at home as a determinant of SSB consumption among low-income Latino parents and their children. This study advances NIDDK’s mission by addressing diabetes risk factors in a hard-to-reach, high-risk population via the relatively under-used home-visiting programs. Role Co-I

Recently completed research:

WATER UP! COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH TO INCREASE DRINKING WATER BEHAVIORS IN LATINO COMMUNITY (CDC): The Avance Center REACH initiative will utilize a community based participatory approach (CBPA) to strengthen an existing community coalition in Langley Park, MD that will select, implement, evaluate and disseminate best practice strategies to address the key risk factor of poor nutrition, resulting in positive changes in obesity, Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Strategies implemented will be tailored to the unique circumstances of this Latino immigrant community and will build on preliminary work already underway with the community and through the Adelante intervention. Role: PI Evaluation

EXPLORATORY RESEARCH CENTER ON LATINO IMMIGRANT/REFUGEE HEALTH DISPARITIES (NIH/NIMHD): The goals are to better understand factors contributing to racial/ethnic minority health disparities in an immigrant community, to increase both community and academic capacity to address these factors, and to test a multi-level community intervention, Adelante, developed to reduce substance use and co-occurring conditions. Role: PI R01, Avance Center Co-Director, & Director of Research Core

Publications

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles (2016-present):

Dhumad S, Candilis PJ, Cleary SD, Dyer AR, Khalifa N, Risk factors for terrorism: a comparison of family, childhood, and personality risk factors among Iraqi terrorists, murderers, and controls, Journal Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2019 Mar, DOI: 10.1080/19434472.2019.1591481

Andrade EL, Evans WD, Barrett N, Edberg MC, Cleary SD., Strategies to Increase Latino Immigrant Youth Engagement in Health Promotion Using Social Media: Mixed-Methods Study., JMIR Public Health Surveill, 2018 Dec, 2018 Dec 19;4(4):e71. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.9332 PMID: 30567689

Visek AJ, Mannix H, Chandran A, Cleary SD, McDonnell K, DiPietro L, Perceived importance of the fun integration theory’s factors and determinants: A comparison among players, parents, and coaches, International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2018 Dec, DOI: 10.1177/1747954118798057

Cleary SD, Snead R, Dietz-Chavez D, Rivera I, Edberg MC., Immigrant Trauma and Mental Health Outcomes among Latino Youth., J Immigr Minor Health, 2018 Oct, doi: 10.1007/s10903-017-0673-6. PMID: 29139024

Evans WD, Andrade EL, Barrett ND, Cleary SD, Snider J, Edberg M, The Mediating Effect of Adelante brand equity on Latino Immigrant Positive Youth Development Outcomes, J Health Commun., 2018 Aug, 2018;23(7):606-613. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2018.1496205. Epub 2018 Aug 23.

Pauselli L, Halpern B, Cleary SD, Ku B, Covington MA, Compton MT., Computational linguistic analysis applied to a semantic fluency task to measure derailment and tangentiality in schizophrenia., Psychiatry Res., 2018 May, 263:74-79. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.037. PMID: 29502041

Saeed NS, Cleary SD, Maneno M, A Cross Sectional Study of the Factors that Affect Therapy Adherence in Children with Attention Deficit Disorder/ Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Value in Health, 2018 May, Volume 21, Pages S126

Andrade EL, Evans WD, Barrett ND, Cleary SD, Edberg MC, Alvayero RD, Kierstead EC, Beltran A., Development of the place-based Adelante social marketing campaign for prevention of substance use, sexual risk and violence among Latino immigrant youth., Health Educ Res., 2018 Apr, doi: 10.1093/her/cyx076. PMID: 29329436

Compton MT, Lunden A, Cleary SD, Pauselli L, Alolayan Y, Halpern B, Broussard B, Crisafio A, Capulong L, Balducci PM, Bernardini F, Covington MA. The aprosody of schizophrenia: Computationally derived acoustic phonetic underpinnings of monotone speech. Schizophr Res. 2018 Feb 12. pii: S0920-9964(18)30027-6. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.01.007. PMID: 29449060

Birnbaum ML, Cleary SD, Ramsay Wan C, Pauselli L, Compton MT. Factor structure of the Cannabis Experiences Questionnaire in a first-episode psychosis sample. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2017 Oct 20. Doi: 10.1111/eip.12509. PMID: 29052952

Abroms LC, Johnson PR, Leavitt LE, Cleary SD, Bushar J, Brandon TH, Chiang SC. A randomized trial of text messaging for smoking cessation in pregnant women. Am J Prev Med. 2017 Dec;53(6):781-790. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.08.002. PMID: 28982527

Edberg MC, Cleary SD, Andrade EL, Evans WD, Simmons LK, Cubilla-Batista I. Applying Ecological Positive Youth Development Theory to Address Co-Occurring Health Disparities Among Immigrant Latino Youth. Health Promot Pract. 2017 Jul;18(4):488-496. doi: 10.1177/1524839916638302. PMID: 27091606

Bernardini F, Attademo L, Cleary SD, Luther C, Shim RS, Quartesan R, Compton MT. Risk Prediction Models in Psychiatry: Toward a New Frontier for the Prevention of Mental Illnesses. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017 May;78(5):572-583. doi: 10.4088/JCP.15r10003. PMID: 27337225

Zhou CK, Levine PH, Cleary SD, Hoffman HJ, Graubard BI, Cook MB. Male Pattern Baldness in Relation to Prostate Cancer-Specific Mortality: A Prospective Analysis in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2016 Feb 1;183(3):210-7. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwv190.

Edberg MC, Cleary SD, Simmons LB, Cubilla I, Andrade EL, Gudger G. (2015). Defining the “community”: Applying ethnographic methods for a Latino immigrant health intervention. Human Organization 74 (1): 27-41. [NIHMS664333]

Collins KP, Cleary SD (2015). Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Parent-Reported Diagnosis of ADHD: National Survey of Children’s Health 2003, 2007, and 2011. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016 Jan;77(1):52-9. doi: 10.4088/JCP.14m09364. PMID: 26761486

Sean D.

Cleary, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor

Sean D. Cleary

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