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Abbey Alkon, RN, PNP, PhD
UCSF School of Nursing
2 Koret Way, Box 0606
San Francisco, CA 94143-0606
Telephone: (415) 476-4695 Fax: 415-753-2161
Email: abbey.alkon@nursing.ucsf.edu
Dr. Alkon's professional career includes 30 years of clinical and research experience in community pediatrics. She is recognized for her research on children's home/ child care environments, psychobiology and mental and physical health. As an epidemiologist and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Alkon conducts community-based studies on the relationship between young children's stress (environment/context and psychobiology) and mental and physical health.
During the last 15 years, Dr. Alkon studied children attending child care and the relationship between the stress they experience in child care and at home and their health (respiratory illness and injuries). She conducted several experimental studies of the effects of violence prevention, mental health consultation, and child care health consultation programs on child care program's quality and children's health (mental and physical health, including injuries and behavior).
Presently, she is collaborating with faculty members at University of California, Berkeley on a cohort study of the effects of environmental exposures early in life on children's autonomic nervous system regulation and mental health.
She is also the Director of the California Childcare Health Program, a community based organization dedicated to improving the health and safety for children attending early care and education programs. She recently completed a community-based project to establish 20 county-level child care health consultation programs and study the effect of the child care health consultation programs on children's health status and the center's health and safety standards.
She continues to be involved in several health and safety teaching programs to promote child care health consultation for California's child care programs.
Dr. Alkon teaches research methods in the Masters program and Advanced Quantitative Methods in the doctoral program. She received a teaching award in 2002.
Center for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children
of Salinas (CHAMACOS); 9/1998 – 9/2008
NIEHS (P01ES09605), EPA (R826709) ; $16.4 million
Brenda Eskenazi, PhD Principal Investigator.
Healthline and Inclusion Specialist Augmentation (Principal Investigator) ;
California Department of Education ; $625,000 annually
California Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (CECCS)
(Project Co-Director) 9/2003 – 9/2008
US Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau ; $100,000 annually
CA. Dept. of Public Health, Maternal Child and Adolescent Branch
California Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants,
HRSA 04-054 T02, 7/1/2004 – 6/30/2007.
Abbey Alkon, Principal Investigator (2%), $30,000 per year.
Oral Health in Child Care (Principal Investigator) ; 4/2/04-1/2008
First 5 California, Dental Health Foundation (DHF)
Dr. Alkon earned a Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Master of Nursing and Public Health degrees from Columbia University, and Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Rochester.
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Alkon A, Goldstein LH, Smider N, Essex M, Kupfer D, Boyce WT. Developmental and
contextual influences on autonomic reactivity in young children.
Developmental Psychobiology, 42(1), 64-78, 2003.
Alkon A, Farrer, J., Bernzweig, J. Roles and responsibilities of child care health
consultants: Focus group findings.
Pediatric Nursing, 30(4): 315-321, 2004.
Alkon A, Lippert S, Vujan N, Boyce WT, Eskenazi B. The ontogeny of autonomic
measures in 6- and 12- month old infants.
Developmental Psychobiology. 48(3): 197-208, 2006.
Boyce WT, Essex MJ, Alkon A, Klein MH, Kalin NH, Kupfer DJ. Father involvement
moderates biobehavioral susceptibility to mental health problems in middle childhood.
J. Amer Academy of Child Adol Psychiatry 2006, 45(12):1510-20.
Farrer, J, Alkon, A, et al. Child care health consultation programs: Barriers and opportunities.
Maternal Child Health Journal. 2006, Oct 10.
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