Society for Prevention Research 34th Annual Meeting

Join RTI International at this year’s Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Annual Meeting, where several of our experts are contributing presentations across the program. Our researchers will be sharing evidence and insights spanning prevention science, implementation, and evaluation, reflecting the breadth of RTI’s work in advancing effective, evidence-based prevention strategies.

We are also proud that Dr. Phillip Graham, Director of RTI's Center for Behavioral Health Epidemiology, Implementation, and Evaluation Research, serves as the current President of SPR, underscoring our ongoing leadership and engagement within the prevention science community.

Be sure to catch RTI's experts throughout the program:

Wednesday, May 27

ECPN Invited Symposium & Lunch: Being on the Job Market: Options In and Out of Academia
Featuring Elvira Elek (Speaker)
11:55 AM - 1:00 PM
Regency B (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Presidential plenary: Scaling What Works: Maryland's Partnership for Proven Programs and the Future of Evidence-Based Policymaking
Featuring Phillip W. Graham, SPR President
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Regency A (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Presidential plenary roundtable
Featuring Phillip W. Graham, SPR President (Chair)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Regency A (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Organized Paper Symposia:

Leveraging Personalized Mobile App-Based Messaging to Enhance Integrated, Multi-Level Alcohol and Sexual Assault Prevention for College Students
Featuring Nichole Scaglione (Co-author)
Lexington (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Culturally Responsive Parent Engagement to Enhance Prevention and Intervention for ADHD
Featuring Lissette Saavedra (Presenting author)
Yellowstone (2nd Fl, Hyatt Regency)

ECPN Student Poster Contestant: Family Functioning, Anxiety, and Depression Among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Moderating Role of Subjective Social Status
Featuring Lissette Saavedra (Co-author)
Columbia A/B (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Crossover Effects of Adapted Versions of Coping Power for Adolescents: Lessons Learned from the Integrative Data Analysis Project
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez (Co-author)
Regency D (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Harnessing Integrative Data Analysis to Evaluate Parent Components in Multilevel School-Based Prevention: Evaluating the Impact of the Coping Power Parent Component
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez (Co-author)
Yellowstone (2nd Fl, Hyatt Regency)

Schedule Measurement Noninvariance in Parent Reports of Hispanic Adolescents’ Conduct Disorder
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez (Co-author) and Lissette Saavedra (Co-author)
Columbia A/B (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Thursday, May 28

Introducing a Data Harmonization Effort to Understand Impacts of Early Preventive Interventions on Suicide and Overdose Mortality
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez (Discussant)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Concord (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Innovations and Applications of Machine Learning for Prevention Science: Methods, Applications, and Research Ethics
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez (Discussant)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Lexington (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

From Innovation to Implementation: Advancing Multilevel Dissemination of Evidence-Based Opioid Misuse Prevention across Youth and Families
Featuring Phillip W. Graham (Chair) and Elvira Elek (Discussant)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Capitol A (Lobby, Hyatt Regency)

Annual Awards and Fellows Presentations
Featuring Phillip W. Graham (Chair)
6:15 PM - 6:55 PM
Regency A (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Poster Session: Unlocking Effective Math Curriculum Implementation: Insights from the Multilevel Eic Project
Featuring Caryn S Ward (Co-author)
6:55 PM - 8:10 PM
Columbia A/B (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Friday, May 29

Embedding Co-Design Upstream to Shape the Architecture of Multilevel Hybrid Trials: Evidence from a Community-Placed Cluster RCT
Featuring Phillip W. Graham (Organizer) and Kiersten Johnson (Presenting author)
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Capitol A (Lobby, Hyatt Regency)

SPR Membership Business Meeting
Featuring Phillip W. Graham (Chair)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Regency A (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Team Science - Bringing the Best Available Evidence to Prevent Drug Use throughout the U.S.: Innovating Prevention Science Translation and Dissemination through a National Training and Technical Assistance Effort
Featuring Phillip W. Graham (Discussant) and Dallas Elgin (Presenting author)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Capitol A (Lobby, Hyatt Regency)

Alcohol Sales in Collegiate Stadiums and Post-Game Fatal Alcohol-Related Crashes in Texas, 2010 – 2023
Featuring Jason Williams (Presenting author) and Lara Raymond (Co-author) and Jessica Cance (Co-author)
Bunker Hill (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Intention-to-Treat Failures in the Presence of Post-Intervention Confounding: Opportunities to Distinguish between Efficacy and Effectiveness?
Featuring Antonio Morgan-Lopez RTI International (Presenting author), Shannon Blakey (Co-author), and Lissette Saavedra (Co-author)
Regency D (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)

Driving Systemic Change in Education: Results from a Multilevel Technical Assistance Initiative
Featuring Caryn S Ward (Presenting author)
Regency D (Ballroom, Hyatt Regency)