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Sonya S. Brady, PhD

Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
 Sonya Brady received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and health psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brady's program of research examines how normative developmental experiences and stressful life experiences influence health risk behavior among youth, and how individual and environmental characteristics promote health protective behavior. Dr. Brady is interested in the design of prevention and intervention programs that address different psychosocial motivations adolescents have to engage in health risk behavior.

  • Ph.D., Clinical Psychology and Biological/Health Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
  • M.S., Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
  • B.S., Psychology and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Courses

Fall 2012
PUBH  6050  Community Health I (Section 001)

Research Interests:

Health risk behavior during adolescence and young adulthood; Developmental influences on risk taking; Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in consequences of risk taking; Mechanisms linking stressful life circumstances to health risk behavior and factors promoting resilience; Promotion of health protective behavior; Public policies affecting adolescent health

Research Projects (4)

Sonya S. Brady

Mailing Address:
Div. Epidemiology & Community Health
1300 South 2nd Street, # 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Phone (Work): 626-4026

Email:

Selected Publications:

Brady, S. S., Dolcini, M. M., Harper, G. W., & Pollack, L. M. (2009). Supportive friendships moderate the association between stressful life events and sexual risk taking among African American adolescents. Health Psychology, 28, 238-248. PMID: 19290716


Brady, S. S., Tschann, J. M., Ellen, J. M., & Flores, E. (2009). Infidelity, trust, and condom use among Latino youth in dating relationships. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 36, 227-231. PMID: 19265741


Brady, S. S., Tschann, J. M., Pasch, L. A., Flores, E., & Ozer, E. J. (2009). Cognitive coping moderates the association between violent victimization by peers and substance use among adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34, 304-310. PMID: 18669579


Brady, S. S. (2008). Lifetime family violence exposure is associated with current symptoms of eating disorders among both young men and women. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 21, 347-351. PMID: 18553412


Brady, S. S., Gorman-Smith, D., Henry, D. B., & Tolan, P. H. (2008). Adaptive coping reduces the impact of community violence exposure on violent behavior among African American and Latino male adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 105-115. PMID: 17687640


Brady, S. S., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L. (2008). Social and emotional consequences of refraining from sexual activity among sexually experienced and inexperienced youth in California. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 162-168. PMID: 18048792 (included as a digest in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 40, 118)


Brady, S. S., Song, A. V., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L. (2008). Adolescents report both positive and negative consequences of experimentation with cigarette use. Preventive Medicine, 46, 585-590. PMID: 18336892


Brady, S. S., Tschann, J. M., Pasch, L. A., Flores, E., & Ozer, E. J. (2008). Violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity among Mexican American and European American adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 285-295. PMID: 18710684


Brady, S. S. (2007). Young adults’ media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and institutional forms of aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 33, 519-525. PMID: 17918280


Brady, S. S., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L. (2007). Adolescents’ reported consequences of having oral sex versus vaginal sex. Pediatrics, 119, 229-236. PMID: 17272611 (included as a digest in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 39, 120-121)


Brady, S. S. (2006). Lifetime community violence exposure and health risk behavior among young adults in college. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 610-613. PMID: 16982403


Brady, S. S., & Donenberg, G. R. (2006). Mechanisms linking violence exposure to health risk behavior in adolescence: Motivation to cope and sensation seeking. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 673-680. PMID: 16721317


Brady, S. S., & Matthews, K. A. (2006). Chronic stress influences ambulatory blood pressure in adolescents. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 80-88. PMID: 16472042


Brady, S. S., & Matthews, K. A. (2006). Effects of media violence on health-related outcomes among young men. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160, 341-347. PMID: 16585477


McGrath, J. J., Matthews, K. A., & Brady, S. S. (2006). Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate. Social Science & Medicine, 63, 1442-1453. PMID: 16733078

Professional Experience:

2007 - present, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

2005 - 2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Psychology Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

2004 - 2005, Clinical Intern, Child Track, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago

Honors:

2007, Robert E. Harris Memorial Award, Outstanding Fellow in Health Psychology, University of California, San Francisco

2006, Robert E. Harris Memorial Award, Outstanding Fellow in Health Psychology, University of California, San Francisco

2005, University of Pittsburgh Provost's Development Fund Award

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