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| Company Overview |
| The ISA Group was founded in 1978 by
Dr. Royer F. Cook, who continues as the President of ISA and
a Senior Research Scientist.
During the past 25 years, ISA has specialized in the application
of behavioral science research to issues of health and public
safety, and has conducted scores of R&D projects for the
major federal research agencies, leading foundations and corporations.
In the health arena, our work has focused especially on the
development and testing of effective health promotion approaches,
and on ways to prevent substance abuse in both adolescents
and adults. Many of these projects have been testing innovative
ways of integrating substance abuse prevention into workplace
health promotion.
Increasingly, we are combining sophisticated methods of behavior
change with cutting-edge information technologies, using video,
CD-ROM and Internet-based techniques to present information
in ways that maximize the likelihood of effective and lasting
improvements in health practices.
Through our non-profit arm, the Institute for Social Analysis,
we continue research on social policy and justice, exploring
ways to improve the performance of the justice system and make
it more responsive to the needs of citizens and communities.
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| Principal Staff |
| President |
| Royer F. Cook, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Cook has over thirty years of senior experience in the
design and direction of applied, evaluation research and the
development and field test of multimedia health promotion and
disease prevention programs. His experience also includes multi-site
program evaluation in the areas of public health, substance abuse
prevention, and criminal justice and the development of assessment
methods and instruments. Dr. Cook has provided research and consulting
services to major federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Vice President |
| Rebekah K. Hersch, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Hersch has been a senior member of the ISA staff for over
seventeen years with particular expertise in program evaluation
and applied research in health, substance abuse prevention, and
criminal justice. Dr. Hersch has extensive experience in quantitative
and qualitative research methods for research in the community,
schools, and the workplace. |
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| Senior Research Scientist |
| Diane K. Deitz, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Deitz is a health psychologist with over
twenty years of research experience in substance abuse prevention,
cardiovascular
health, and worksite stress. Dr. Deitz's current research focuses
on substance abuse prevention, health promotion, and workplace
managed care. |
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| Research Scientist |
| Douglas W. Billings, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Billings joined ISA in 2003. Dr. Billings is a clinical
psychologist specializing in the application of cognitive-behavioral
models of stress and coping to a variety of health topics including
HIV/AIDS and health promotion. He has expertise in the measurement
and design of longitudinal studies of change. |
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| Senior Research Associate |
| Samantha Leaf, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Leaf joined ISA in 2008. Dr. Leaf is a social psychologist who studies health beliefs and behavior change. Her research interests include cancer prevention and screening, adjustment to cancer diagnosis, and psychosocial and behavioral aspects of genetic testing. |
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