Lisa Jaycox is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND (Arlington, VA) and a Clinical Psychologist (University of Pennsylvania, 1993). Dr. Jaycox has combined clinical and research expertise in the areas of child and adolescent mental health problems, especially related to depression and reactions to violence exposure such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Jaycox developed and evaluated a school-based prevention of depression program that proved to be effective in preventing the onset of severe depressive symptoms among 5th and 6th graders. She also evaluated psychosocial treatment and prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among adult female assault survivors. Dr. Jaycox joined RAND in 1997, and is working on projects related to the treatment of adolescent depression in primary care settings, mental health consequences of community violence among young adults, evaluation of adolescent substance-abuse treatment programs, and use of trauma-focused therapy to improve school-based mental health services for children. She was recently awarded a grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to evaluate an intimate partner violence prevention program for Latino youth.