Kit Elam
School of Public Health
Expert Bio
Kit Elam is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Science at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington. His program of research examines gene-environment interplay in social relationships in pathways to child psychopathology and adolescent substance use.
Foci of his research include: children’s genetic predisposition, negative family and peer environments, advanced approaches to measures genetic predisposition. In his research, he examines these processes as part of longitudinal trajectories of development.
Areas of Expertise
Parenting, substance use, alcohol use, childhood, adolescence, psychopathology, genetics, gene-environment interplay, aggression, couple/interparental relationship.