Special Issue on Native Americans and Substance Use

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THE AUTHORS

Jan Gryczynski, M.A., is a Research Associate at the Friends Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is working on several studies examining interventions for substance use and infectious diseases for underserved minority groups. His research interests include evaluation of behavioral health interventions and service delivery practices. His work has also examined the role of social, cultural, and policy factors in shaping health behavior and outcomes. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Jeannette L. Johnson, Ph.D., was a Senior Research Scientist at the Friends Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, at the time of this writing. In the past, she was a Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Buffalo. Her research has centered on the effects of substance use on individuals, their families, and the communities in which they live. She is especially noted for her cross-cultural research in measurement. Dr. Johnson has conducted research with high-risk youth at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism where she studied children at risk for alcohol and other drug-use-related problems. She was a coinvestigator of the “Native American Prevention Project Against AIDS and Substance Abuse,” a 6-year federally funded grant designed to develop culturally relevant prevention curricula with adolescent Native Americans in the Southwest. Previously, she was a project officer at the National Institute on Drug Abuse where she worked with community-based AIDS prevention projects; she was also the Project Director for the Panel on High Risk Youth at the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Johnson has presented workshops for and about children of alcoholics throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. She is a contributing editor for several journals and the author and coauthor of many professional publications. She has coedited a book entitled “Resilience and Development: Positive Life Adaptations.” She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Vermont. Dr. Johnson's paternal grandmother was from the Huron tribe in Southeastern Canada. She is a member of the editorial board of Substance Use & Misuse.