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1 NAME: Kathy Sanders-Phillips OMB No and (Rev. 09/17 Approved Through 03/31/2020) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Provide the following information for the Senior/key personnel and other significant contributors. Follow this format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FIVE PAGES. era COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login): ksandersphillips POSITION TITLE: Adjunct Research Professor, Center for Drug & Health Studies, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.) INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable) Completion Date MM/YYYY FIELD OF STUDY Mount Holyoke College BA 1972 Johns Hopkins University MA 1975 Experimental Johns Hopkins University PhD 1977 Experimental/ Developmental A. Personal Statement I will serve as one of two Principal Investigators at the University of Delaware (K. Sanders-Phillips; Y. Payne) on the research project titled Delaware Youth Empowerment Program. I will take primary responsibility for the overall direction and oversight of the project and ensure that it meets all scientific and administrative goals. Much of the work I have conducted over the past decades has informed and provided the foundation for the proposed project. For example, I have served as PI on multiple NIH-funded grants to examine the social determinants of violence and health in communities of color and the role of social marginalization and racial discrimination, in groups such as African American and Latinos in the U.S., in risk-taking and aggression. At the University of Delaware, I am an Adjunct Research Professor in the Center for Drug and Health Studies in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. I am also a Professor of Pediatrics at Howard University where until 2012, I served as Director of Research for the DC/Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities that was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health; directed the Research Program in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Communities of Color; and headed the NIDA funded Minority Institutions Drug Abuse Research Training Program. I completed a sabbatical as a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation from Collectively, these experiences and the data generated from related studies support the need for our proposed violence prevention project on youth violence in low income communities of color in Wilmington Delaware. The proposed project is based on findings that health disparities in violence and other outcomes are often rooted in childhood social experiences - especially experiences involving exposure to social inequalities, racial discrimination, and violence - and programs to help youth develop social and political action skills can be effective in promoting better outcomes among youth living in low-income, marginal, and segregated communities My most recent research has focused on sequential relationships between racial discrimination and other violence exposure on psychological and biological

2 functioning that are related to drug use and subsequent aggression in adults and youth in the U.S. and South Africa two societies that are highly stratified by race. The studies provided extensive experience in the measurement and assessment of violence exposure, social inequalities, and racial discrimination, and confirmed the critical influence of racial discrimination in determining risk behaviors, violence exposure as a victim and/or perpetrator, and other health outcomes in youth and young adults of color. For example, preliminary data analyses from two R01 studies suggest that exposure to racial discrimination and other forms of violence influence the likelihood of depression and the extent to which youth cope with the stress of racial discrimination by engaging in risk behaviors such as alcohol and drug use. Two papers describe findings from my study of racial discrimination and health outcomes in a sample of South African youth (mean age = 16 years). The first paper (under review by & Health) showed that direct community victimization was a significant predictor for risk behaviors in boys and indirect school victimization predicted risk behavior in girls. Emotion dysregulation moderated the effects of violence on risk behaviors in girls. The results highlighted the importance of developing school-based programs to build emotion regulation skills, particularly for girls, to promote their resilience to the effects of violence on risk behaviors. The second paper (Sui et al., 2018) on the independent and cumulative effects of exposure to the political violence of Apartheid and to other types of violence revealed that indirect and direct victimization in the community, and indirect political victimization were consistent predictors for adverse psychological functioning. Cumulative victimization, measured by the total number of victimizations including political violence, showed a consistent linear effect on almost all psychological symptoms. Finally, my most recent paper on South African youth (submitted to the Journal of Child and Family Studies) identified five profiles predicting risk outcomes in this sample. Youth in the Very High Violence Exposure profile who also reported moderate exposure to racial discrimination were the most likely to engage in risk behaviors in the sample: reporting earlier ages at first marijuana use; higher frequency of lifetime hard drug use, more sexual partners, and less frequent condom use. These findings suggest that exposure to racial discrimination may exacerbate the effects of exposure to other types of violence on youth outcomes. There are noticeable gaps in my vitae and funding since I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and received a cornea transplant in Therefore, there is a break in my funding after 2012 and I did not submit a new grant proposal until I have listed my NIH grants awards that ended in 2012 to show my productivity prior to While I remain legally blind in one eye, I have now been able to resume my grantwriting and research career. B. Positions and Honors Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Medicine and Science, King/Drew Medical Center Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley 2001-present 2005 present Distinguished Scientist in Drug Abuse Research and Director, Professor of Pediatrics, Former Director of the Research Program in the Epidemiology & Prevention of Drug Abuse, Former Director of the Research for the DC/Baltimore Research Center in Child Health Disparities, Howard University, College of Medicine (2005), (School of Education ), Washington, D.C. Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University, School of Medicine (Sabbatical), Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation, Washington DC Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and Faculty Associate, Center for Drug and Health Studies, University of Delaware.

3 Federal Review and Public Advisory 2018 Reviewer, CSR Anonymization Study to test the impact on peer review of anonymous grant proposals Reviewer, Scientific Review, Health Disparities and Equity Promotion Study Section Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel, Center for Scientific Review, Behavioral & Social Science Approaches to Preventing HIV/AIDS Group, Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B/START) Reviewer, Office of Scientific Review, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Development and Translation of Medical Technologies that Reduce Health Disparities (SBIR [R43/R44] Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH Support for Conferences and Science Meetings Invited Commentator, Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), ODP Draft Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years outlining the priorities that the Office will focus on over the next 5 years and ODP s role in advancing prevention research at the NIH Consultant, The Safe Start Center, Safe Start Promising Approaches Program- Project Connect- in Queens, NY. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) of the Department of Justice 2012 Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel on Socio-Behavioral, Health Services and Policy Related to Health Disparities Research. Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 2012 Reviewer, Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Special Emphasis Panel (SEP), CE12-002: Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury 2012 Reviewer, Office of Scientific Review, ZRG1 PSE K 50 R Special Emphasis Panel (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women s Health) 2012 Reviewer and Mentor, National institute on Drug Abuse, Special Populations Research Development Seminar Series Workshop 2011 Reviewer, National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease. NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Implementation Science and Impact Evaluation RFA 2011 Reviewer, Health Resources and Services Administration s (HRSA), Division of Independent Review s (DIR), HRSA : Pre-Doctoral Training in Primary Care Program 2010 Member, Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the 2011 National Survey of Children s Health, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 2010 Member, NIDA s Networking Project (NNP), Research Interest Group on Health Disparities (HDRIG) 2011 Mentor, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Workshop for New Investigators, Lessons Learned in Review: Experiences and Challenges as a Reviewer and Applicant 2011 Reviewer, Health Resources and Services Administration s (HRSA), Division of Independent Review s (DIR), HRSA : Pre-Doctoral Training in Primary Care Program C. Contributions to Science 1. My early publications were among the first to examine exposure to violence in African American communities in relation to the broader context of their experiences of inequality and secondary social

4 status in the U.S. These studies included both adults and children and reinforced the significant impact of environmental stressors such as exposure to violence on more general health promotion behaviors. For example, my paper in 1996 reported that exposure to domestic violence and having a family member murdered significantly predicted health habits in African American and Latino Head Start mothers: 1). Sanders-Phillips, K. Assaultive Violence in the Community: Psychological Responses of Adolescents and Their Parents, Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 21, , ). Moisan, P., Sanders-Phillips, K., Fitzgerald, P. Psychological Outcomes of Sexually Abused Black and Latino Boys, Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol. 21, , ). Sanders-Phillips, K. Correlates of Health Promotion Behaviors in Low-Income Black Women and Latinas, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 12, Number 6, , ). Sanders-Phillips, K. The Ecology of Urban Violence: Its Relationship to Health Promotion Behaviors in Black and Latino Communities, American Journal of Health Promotion, Vol. 10, , My subsequent studies contributed to the field of violence research by establishing theoretical and empirically based relationships between social inequalities such as racial discrimination, violence related risk behaviors, and violence exposure in youth of color. These social inequalities include perceived racial discrimination and injustice as well as structural factors such as living conditions (e.g., public housing). These studies also documented that psychological distress and symptoms of post traumatic stress may moderate relationships between social inequality and violence exposure: 1). Sui XC; Massar K., Kessels, L., Ruiter, R., Reddy, S.P., & Sanders-Phillips K. (2018). Violence exposure in South African adolescents: differential and cumulative effects on Journal of Interpersonal Violence,1-27, 2). Wallace, S., Neilands, T., & Sanders-Phillips. K. Neighborhood Context, Psychological Outlook and Risk Behaviors among urban African American youth, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority. 23, (1): doi: /cdp Epub 2016 Jun 9. PMID: ). Sanders-Phillips, K., Kliewer, W., Tirmazi, T., Nebbitt, V., Carter, T.,& Key, H. Perceived Racial Discrimination, Drug Use, and Psychological Distress in African American Youth: A Pathway to Child Health Disparities, Journal of Social Issues, Volume 70, No. 1, ). Sanders-Phillips, K., Settles-Reaves, B., Walker, D., Brownlow, J. Social Inequality and Racial Discrimination: Risk Factors for Health Disparities in Children of Color. Pediatrics, Volume 124 (Supplement 3), S176-S186, These national and international studies confirm relationships between perceived social inequalities, ethnic identity, violence exposure and health outcomes in secondary social groups and in women detained in the criminal justice system: 1). Nyembezi, A., Resnicow, K., James, S., Funani, I., Sifunda, S., Ruiter, R., van den Borne, B., Sanders- Phillips, K. & Reddy, P. The Association between Ethnic Identity and Sexual Coercion among Young Men in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Health, , first published on December 6, ). Sanders-Phillips, K., Pretorious, L., Reddy, P. Developing HIV Intervention Programs in the Context of Social Inequalities and Human Rights, The Journal of Social Work and Public Health, 24(1), 60-75, ). Woodson, K., Hives, C., Sanders-Phillips, K. Violence Exposure and Health Related Risk Among African American Adolescent Female Detainees: A Strategy for Reducing Recidivism. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Volume 49, Issue 8, , 2010.

5 4. The following studies contributed to science by documenting relationships between social inequalities, violence exposure and caretaking behaviors. 1). Lewin, A., Mitchell, S.J., Rasmussen, A., Sanders-Phillips, K., & Joseph, J.G. Do Human and Social Capital Protect Young African American Mothers from Depression Associated with Ethnic Discrimination and Violence Exposure? Journal of Black, Volume 37, , ). Mitchell SJ, Lewin A, Horn IB, Rasmussen A, Sanders-Phillips K, Valentine D, Joseph JG, Violence Exposure and the Association Between Young African American Mothers? Harsh Discipline and Child Problem Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 70, , ). Mitchell SJ, Lewin A, Horn I, Valentine D, Sanders-Phillips K, Rasmussen A. Joseph J. How does Violence Exposure Affect the Psychological Health and Parenting of Young African American Mothers? Academic Pediatrics, Volume 9, No.3, , 2009.DD. 4). Sanders-Phillips, K. Racial Discrimination: A Continuum of Violence Exposure for Children of Color. Clinical Child and Family Review, Volume 12; Number 2, , 2009 D. Additional Information: Research Support and/or Scholastic Performance (Grants below end in Please see note at end of Personal Statement for explanation) R01MD Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI) 7/12/2012 8/30/2012 National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Violence Exposure, Immune Function & HIV/AIDS Risks in African American Young Adults. R21DA Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI) 6/01/11 5/31/12 National Institute on Drug Abuse, Violence, Drug Use & AIDS in South African Youth: A U.S./South Africa Research Collaboration, R24DA Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI) 10/01/08-07/30/12 Research Training in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and AIDS in Communities of Color, Diversity Supplement to mentor Taqi Tirmazi, Ph.D. NIAAA Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI) 9/01/11 2/28/12 Administrative Supplement, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, DC-N-LITEN Feasibility Study/ to conduct a feasibility study to recruit a Washington DC sample. P20 MD00198 Kathy Sanders-Phillips(Co-PI) 9/30/02 09/29/07 National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities. Role on Project: Co-Principal investigator/director of Research. P20 MD00198 Kathy Sanders-Phillips(Co-PI) 10/01/07 5/30/12 National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Renewal, Role on Project: Co-Principal investigator/director of Research. P20 MD00198 Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI) 10/01/07-5/30/12 R01 subproject awarded to Kathy Sanders-Phillips (PI). through P20 MD Biological and Social Correlates of Drug Use in African American Emerging Adults. Role on Project Co-PI and Director of Research

New Biographical Sketch Format Required for NIH and AHRQ Applications for the May 25, 2015 deadline and beyond.

New Biographical Sketch Format Required for NIH and AHRQ Applications for the May 25, 2015 deadline and beyond. NIH has recently issued notice, NOT-OD-15-024 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-