Faculty & Staff

Bradley N. Collins, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Health Behavior Research Clinic

Dr. Collins is a clinical psychologist by training and was hired in the summer of 2005 to expand his research in health psychology. He has extensive clinical experience as well as a history of applied and laboratory-based research in addictive behavior. Currently, he directs the Health Behavior Research Clinic, which maintains an active research program including collaborative projects with faculty and students across departments in the CHP and CLA as well as the Department of Pediatrics. Much of his research focuses on intervention development and examining factors that not only influence health behavior change, but also maximize the generalizability of behavior change beyond the treatment setting. Examples of Dr. Collins’ ongoing funded research includes a behavioral counseling trial for postpartum smokers, testing cue extinction procedures for smoking relapse prevention, individual- and neighborhood-level factors that influence adult smoking behavior and childhood obesity, and factors that influence provider adherence to guidelines addressing chronic health behavior problems (e.g., smoking, obesity, etc.) Through his research, teaching, and mentorship, Dr. Collins promotes a transdisciplinary approach to training graduate students to help prepare students for the challenges of their academic and career futures.

Education:

Wake Forest University, BA
University of Hartford, MA
Binghamton University (SUNY), Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego, clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship

Research Interests:

Health Psychology

Maternal and Child Health

Smoking cessation and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) exposure reduction

Predictors of health behavior change and relapse

Obesity

Recent Publications and Presentations

Collins, BN, Wileyto, EP, Patterson,F, Rukstalis, M, Audrain-McGovern, J, Kaufmann, V,  Pinto, A, Hawk, L, Niaura, R, Epstein, LH, and Lerman, C.   Gender Differences in Smoking Cessation in a Placebo-Controlled Trial of Bupropion with Behavioral Counseling, 2004; Nicotine and Tobacco Research 6:27-37.

Lerman, C, Niaura, R, Collins, BN, Audrain, J, Pinto, A, Hawk, L, Epstein, LH.  Effect of Bupropion on Depression Symptoms in Highly Dependent Smokers, 2004; Psy Addic Beh; 18:362-366.

Makris, AP, Collins, BN, Warmhold, VL, Bailer, BA, & Foster, GD. Cognitive performance and food reactivity in overweight and obese adults.  Poster presentation at the North American Association of the Study of Obesity Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November 2004.

Collins, BN, Wileyto, EP, Dahm, J, Kingham, J, Guarini, S.  Gender differences in smoking cue reactivity during cue extinction training.  Poster presentation at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2005.

Munafo, MR, Wileyto, EP, Murphey, MFG, Collins, BN (2006).  Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Smoking Behavior; 2006;  Addic Beh., 31(9):1670-82.

Recent Grants

A Postpartum Smoking and Infant ETS Reduction Trial, K07 CA93756-01

SHS Treatment for Postpartum African American Smokers, RO1 CA105183-01

Behavioral Mechanisms of Cue Exposure Treatment for Smoking Relapse Prevention: A Feasibility Trial with Bupropion, Pennsylvania Department of Health Tobacco Settlement Funds

Tobacco Intervention and Control Research Award, NIH Competitive Loan Repayment Program

Spontaneous Smoking Cessation Among Lung Cancer Patients, VA Competitive Pilot Project Fund