Author: Tracy Waasdorp
Tracy Evian Waasdorp, PhD, MEd is a Research Scientist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Waasdorp’s research focuses on school-based bullying prevention and intervention, forms of aggression, bullying and peer victimization (e.g. relational aggression, cyberbullying, and bystander behaviors). She examines coping with bullying, teacher and parent perceptions and responses to bullying, and school safety, climate, and connectedness. Based on this work, she collaborates on developing and validating school-based programming that focuses on reducing all forms of bullying and aggression for youth. This research as been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the W.T. Grant Foundation.
