Adjunct Professor
Jean Shope

Biography

Dr Shope is Research Professor and Associate Director at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She is also on the Faculty of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Dr Shope has a BSN degree from Cornell University, an MSPH from the University of Minnesota, and a PhD from Wayne State University in the Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations of Education. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Behavior and Health Education in the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Dr Shope has 30 years of experience in funded research (totalling US$18,691,418), much of it regarding

• school health education


• adolescent substance use


• adolescent driving


• at-risk drinking


• drink/driving


• graduated driver licensing.

Research sponsors have included

• the National Institutes of Health


• Centers for Disease Control


• Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control


• National Safety Council


• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


• General Motors


• Toyota


• various state agencies and departments.

Dr Shope has a substantial publication record (132 publications, of which 82 are articles and conference papers), and is a sought-after expert, especially on the topics of

• teen and young adult driving


• driver education


• graduated driver licensing.

In the US, Dr Shope is an appointed member of the National Research Council Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Alcohol, Other Drugs  and Transportation and the National Research Council Institute of Medicine Committee on Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Reducing and Preventing Teen Motor Crashes. She is also an Executive Board member of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety, and a member of

• the Research Society on Alcoholism


• the American Public Health Association


• the Society for Public Health Education


• the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

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