She is also a faculty member at UCSF’s Psychology and Medicine Postdoctoral Program, the Center for Health and Community, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a developmental psychologist whose research has focused on health-related decision making, perceptions of risk and vulnerability, and health communication. She has also conducted research on the relationships among parenting practices, peer relationships, adolescents’ self-perceptions, and risky behavior. She has served as a consultant to a number of community-level adolescent health promotion programs and has been an active member on several national campaigns to understand and reduce adolescent risk behavior.