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Steven M. Kogan serves as the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Human Development in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia in May 1999 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse at the University of Miami School of Medicine from 1999 to 2001. Kogan began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Valdosta State University from 2001 to 2003. He then joined the University of Georgia as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Family Research from 2004 to 2009, progressed to Assistant Professor from 2009 to 2013, Associate Professor from 2013 to 2018, and has been Professor since 2018, with his endowed professorship since 2019.
Dr. Kogan's research program addresses substance use and high-risk sexual behavior among Black American youth, particularly in rural Southern communities, through randomized prevention trials and longitudinal studies. His expertise encompasses risk behaviors among African American youth, family-centered prevention, and African American men's substance use, sexuality, and family formation. He has secured substantial NIH funding as principal investigator on R01AA026623 and R01AA021774, and co-investigator on multiple others, with active grants exceeding $11 million. Kogan has received the University of Georgia's Creative Research Medal in 2016 and Creative Research Award in 2020, the Bill and June Flatt Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2015 from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and was appointed a Fellow of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research in 2008. Selected publications include Kogan et al. (2023) "Family-Centered Prevention to Reduce Discrimination-Related Depressive Symptoms Among Black Adolescents" in JAMA Network Open; Reck et al. (2023) "Different mechanisms link internalized racism to externalizing symptomology among Black American adolescent boys and girls" in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; and Kogan & Barton (2022) "Translation and prevention in family science" in the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methodologies. Additionally, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent Health since 2020.
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