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Scott Novak, PhD, is a developmental epidemiologist in RTI's behavioral health epidemiology program. His research interests lie primarily in the causes, correlates, and consequences of psychiatric disorders, including the behavioral and psychiatric sequelae. Dr. Novak is trained in novel analytic and methodological approaches to the analysis of epidemiological and clinical data, including latent class models and propensity models of causal risk factors. He is developing and applying statistical approaches to the study of drug-related outcomes using hierarchical linear models (HLMs) and structural equation models with latent variables. Dr. Novak is currently the principal investigator on several NIH grants to examine substance use and psychiatric trajectories over the lifecourse. Prior to coming to RTI in 2004, he was on the faculty of Brown University in the Department of Community Health, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy/Maternal and Child Health at Harvard University. | 