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Deborah Bybee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Ecological-Community Psychology

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Current Research/Projects

Sullivan, Campbell, & Bybee (Bybee – Co-PI)

NIMH (R24 MH075941)

Developing a Violence against Women Research Infrastructure
Co-Principal Investigator. Funded by National Institute of Mental Health, 2007-2012.
Collaborative partnership with a community-based, specialty care agency serving female victims of domestic violence or sexual assault to 1) advance knowledge about developing research infrastructure in community settings and establishing collaborative research partnerships; (2) identify and incorporate factors in community settings that may be associated with quality care and optimal outcomes for clients; and (3) test adapted, evidence-based interventions in a community-based agency serving victims of violence against women.

Yoshihama (Bybee – Statistical Methodologist) NIJ (2005 WG BX 0009)

Justice System Response to Intimate Partner Violence in Asian Communities
Co-Investigator.
Interview study of 500 battered women of Asian descent, using life history calendar methodology in order to delineate their life-course experience of interpersonal violence and contact with the criminal justice system.

Campbell & Bybee (Bybee – Co-PI) 01/01/06-12/31/08

NIJ (2005-WG-BX-0003)

A Systems Change Analysis of SANE Programs: Identifying the Mediating Mechanisms of Criminal Justice System Impact
Co-Principal Investigator. Funded by the National Institute of Justice. 2006-2007.
The purpose of this project is to determine whether prosecution rates for adult sexual assault cases in a Midwestern community increased after the implementation of a SANE program, and to identify the “critical ingredients” that contributed to that increase.