Brandon Almy, Colleen Doyle, and Christina Mondi, first year doctoral students at the Institute of Child Development, have brought home the Sloboda and Bukoski 2015 Cup from the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) annual meeting. The Sloboda and Bukoski Cup, described by the SPR as a friendly competition, is designed to recognize the importance of the collaborative process in generating significant advances in prevention science. The competition, which begins before the annual meeting with teams who conduct a project and prepare a symposium talk on their results, is named for two of the founders of SPR, Dr. Zili Sloboda and Dr. William Bukoski.

This year, teams were given two months to develop projects based on a longitudinal dataset from the World Health Organization, and made presentations during a conference session.  The winning project was titled: Mexico’s Seguro Popular: Health and Wealth Effects of Public Health Insurance. 

The ICD project team is pictured above (from left): Anne Zhou (Counseling Psychology), Brandon Almy (ICD), Nathan Wright (Public Health), Gerald August, executive director of the Center for Personalized Prevention Research, sponsor of the team, Christina Mondi (ICD)(holding the Cup), and  Colleen Doyle (ICD).