Brittany Bugbee
Senior Strategic Analyst, Office of Strategic Initiatives
Senior Project Director, Center on Young Adult Health and Development
SPH | Room: 1242HH
Brittany Bugbee is a Principal Faculty Specialist in the Center on Young Adult Health and Development as well as the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is currently Project Director for the Woodlawn Study. Brittany has more than ten years of project management experience, with expertise in managing large-scale data collection efforts, including survey design and item writing, programming online data collection tools, data management and analysis, and translating findings for a variety of audiences. She has co-authored more than 20 publications related to substance use in young adulthood. Her research interests center on understanding how physical, mental, and behavioral health affect academic performance in adolescence and young adulthood.
Department Information
- Department of Behavioral and Community Health
- Center on Young Adult Health and Development
Young adults, Academic achievement, Institutional research, Substance use
School of Public Health Research and Development Award, 2022
BS, Community Health
University of Maryland
BA, Spanish Language, Literatures and Culture
University of Maryland
MPH, Behavioral and Community Health
University of Maryland
For a full list of publications, please visit www.cyahd.umd.edu.
Arria, A.M., Parisi, C.E., Bugbee, BA, & Vincent, K.B. (in press). Implementation of a computerized tool to address barriers to academic success among college students. Journal of American College Health.
Doherty, E.E., Green, K.M., & Bugbee, BA (2024). From one death to another: The relationship between familial deaths and one’s own mortality risk among an urban Black American cohort. Social Science & Medicine. 363, 117489.
Kennedy, MH, Bugbee, BA, Vincent, KB, Smith, SA, & Arria, AM (2024). In harm’s way: Do college students’ beliefs about cannabis put them at risk for use? Journal of American College Health. 72(8), 2588-2596.
Green, KM, Doherty, EE, & Bugbee, BA (2023). Can early disadvantage be overcome? A life course approach to understanding how disadvantage, education, and social integration impact mortality into middle adulthood among a Black American cohort. Prevention Science. 24(5), 829-840.
Mader, J, Smith, JM, Smith, J, Afzal, AR, Arria, AM, Bugbee, BA, & Winters, KC (2022). Correlates of perceived harmfulness of regular cannabis use among Canadian university students before and after legalization. Cannabis. 5(3).
Arria, AM, Bugbee, BA, Mader, J, Smith, JM, & Winters, KC (2021). Post-discharge outcomes of adolescents attending a long-term addiction treatment program. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment. 20(2), 117-126.
Carter-Pokras, OD, Bugbee, BA, Gold, RS, Lauver, PE, Aiken, R, & Arria, AM (2021). Utilizing student health and academic data: A county-level demonstration project. Health Promotion Practice. 22(2), 193-203.
Arria, AM, Barrall, AL, Vincent, KB, Bugbee, BA, & O’Grady, KE (2020). Development of the Measures of Obstacles to Succeeding Academically in College (MOSAIC). Journal of College Student Development. 61(1), 103-108.
Parisi, CE, Bugbee, BA, Vincent, KB, Soong, AM, Arria, AM (2019). Risks associated with alcohol and marijuana use among college student athletes: The case for involving athletic personnel in prevention and intervention. Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics. 12, 343-364.
Bugbee, BA, Beck, KH, Fryer, CS, & Arria, AM (2019). Substance use, academic performance, and academic engagement among high school seniors. Journal of School Health. 89(2), 145-156.