Erum Nadeem is a postdoctoral fellow who received her degree in Clinical Psychology at UCLA. She has conducted community-based research desiged to explore adolescent mental health in the family and school contexts. At the center, Dr. Nadeem is working on research involving the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools program (CBITS), a collaborative project with LAUSD which targets trauma symptoms related to exposure to community violence. Dr. Nadeem plans to pilot using a community based participatory research model in order to improve the parent component of this intervention. She is also involved in the evaluation of the suicide prevention program in LAUSD.

Dr. Nadeem has also collaborated with the Public Health Foundation Enterprises' WIC program to evaluate their services for teen parents and to study how Latino families adapt to adolescent pregnancy by examining videotaped mother-adolescent dialogues about motherhood, dating/sex, and family conflict. Dr. Nadeem has used similar methods to to explore how families of different cultural backgrounds discuss sensitive topics, and has studied peer victimization in multiethnic, urban middle schools.