Mary
Kay Landon
Mary Kay Landon is a research assistant II for the Northeast CAPT. In
her role at the CAPT she is primarily responsible for collecting data and
conducting other research activities as part of a NHTSA-sponsored initiative
to develop and test a youth-informed social marketing and law enforcement
strategy to reduce underage drinking in collaboration with members of the
national office of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD). In addition,
she is presently involved in establishing a phone bank as a part of a NIAAA-sponsored
data collection effort to evaluate a parent intervention (Reach for Health’s “Especially
for Daughters”) whose purpose is to prevent early alcohol and sex
initiation in middle-school girls. Before joining EDC, Ms. Landon was a
research associate at Channing Bete Company, in Deerfield, MA, where her
primary responsibility was to evaluate research on U.S.-based youth prevention
programs to determine their suitability for inclusion in a new edition
of the Prevention Strategies Guide, a resource for youth development and
delinquency prevention programs that had originally been developed by prevention
scientists J. David Hawkins, Ph.D., and Richard F. Catalano, Ph.D., as
part of their "Communities That Care" program. Previously, she
served as telephone survey supervisor for Abt Associates where she oversaw
data collection efforts on over a dozen federally-funded studies, including
the CDC’s National Immunization Survey. She earned her M.A. in east-west
psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco,
CA, and her B.A. in mass communications from Emerson College, Boston, MA.
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