Trade:
Doctoral Student (1st year)
Assistant Professor @ Weber State University in Health
Promotion & Human Performance.
Trade: Dr. Kumpfer is an Associate Professor of Health Education. In the early 1980's she was the Deputy Director of the Utah State Division of Substance Abuse. On leave of absence from the department for the last two years, she has served as the Director of the DHHS Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in Washington, D.C. where she increased her experience in health policy. Dr. Kumpfer also served until last year as the President of the Society for Prevention Research and Chair of the Subcommittee on Effective Prevention Programs for the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Prevention. While at CSAP, she developed the American Indian Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative.
Experience:
I received my B.S. in Health Education and a minor in
Biology from the University of Oregon in 1992. After
graduation I moved to Pocatello, Idaho and earned an
M.H.E('93)and a M.P.E. ('94) at Idaho State University
while working as an assistant track and field coach. In
'98 I took a position as a visiting professor at Weber
State University in exercise science and in '99 took a
similar position in health promotion. Fortunately, I have
been blessed with the opportunity to stay on staff for an
additional two years (maybe more
if things go well!).
Experience: Dr. Kumpfer completed her BA at Colorado Women's College and her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Utah. Her post-doctoral work was done at the University of Minnesota Institute for Child Development. She grew up in New Jersey and California and enjoys spending time with her husband and their 19-year-old daughter writing, reading, skiing, and hiking. She is an American Indian research psychologist with 30 years of treatment and prevention experience.
Help Offered: I have done quite a bit of coaching over the years and would enjoy sharing experiences with anyone who is interested in expanding into this area.
Help Offered: Her research and publications are in the area of family, school, and community interventions to prevent drug use, delinquency, and associated problems in youth. She has published extensively on family strengthening approaches to reducing problems in youth. Her Strengthening Families Program has become a recognized evidence-based program by many federal and state governments and is being implemented in almost all states and several countries. She is also an expert in grant writing, needs assessment, research, and evaluation measurement and has published a book on measurement instruments, entitled Measurements in Prevention. In the department, she teaches Program Evaluation and Grant Writing and is available to consult on either with students.
Help Wanted: I would greatly appreciate any assistance in stats!
Help Wanted: She is looking for individuals interested in alcohol prevention and policy to be hired on an hourly wage basis by CDC to conduct literature reviews and abstract articles. She is also hiring for a half-time Research Assistant position to work on her National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Strengthening Washington, D.C. grant. She has a number of large data bases from several federal grants that she would be willing to make available to students interested doing secondary data analyses for publications or class projects. Collaborations with students on research or review articles are always welcome. She is also looking for students interested in travel who would be interested in becoming Strengthening Families Program trainers for local site trainers. She is developing a distance learning class in Program Evaluation and also in Prevention and Health Promotion Research and is looking for independent study students to help with these classes.
Contact
Information:
(801) 626-7998 - office number
khyatt@weber.edu
Contact
Information:
Phone: 581-7718
karol.kumpfer@health.utah.edu
Office: Annex 2005
FYI: I love sports and earned All-American Honors each of my four years while competing in track and field for the University of Oregon.
FYI: I have an addiction to living on the edge which now as I am older translates into traveling, hiking, and trying to win million dollar grants (the great federal lottery). When I was younger, I was a down hill ski racer on the winning intercollegiate ski team. I also raced sports cars.
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