Department of Pediatrics Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Chair of the Faculty Recruitment and Retention Subcommittee

Alison Culyba was awarded an NIH/NICHD career development award (K23 HD098277). Her research examines the role of social networks and environmental contexts in protecting youth from violence and translates findings into community-based interventions.

Dr. Culyba’s current work models social networks to study associations between adolescent-adult connections and multiple forms of violence victimization and perpetration in a diverse, community-based sample of Pittsburgh youth. Through an implementation science framework, she seeks to translate these findings into a community- based violence prevention intervention that leverages connections and safeguards youth. Dr. Culyba also investigates novel methods to study how physical and social environments shape violence risk.

As Director of the Empowering Teens to Thrive hospital-based violence intervention program for assault- injured youth at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Dr. Culyba provides medical follow-up and linkage to support services to promote recovery following violent injury.