Dr. Shannon Self-Brown is a child clinical psychologist and a Professor in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. She serves as Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences and is the Co-Director of the National SafeCare Training and Research Center (NSTRC). NSTRC is housed within the School of Public Health and focuses on the dissemination of SafeCare, an evidence-based parenting program for preventing child physical abuse and neglect.
Dr. Self-Brown’s research focuses on child maltreatment prevention, behavioral parenting intervention, youth trauma intervention, and implementation science. Her research has been funded by NIH, NCTSN, CDC, PCORI, DoD, and several foundations. Dr. Self-Brown has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications focusing on the impact of youth violence, trauma, and disaster exposure on youth mental health, as well as the implementation of evidence-based behavioral parenting programs and mental health practices for traumatized youth. She serves as a grant reviewer for the DOJ, NCTSN, and NIH, and as a member of the editorial board for the journal Child Maltreatment.
Shannon and her family