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Bradley Collins

  • College of Public Health

    • Social and Behavioral Sciences

      • Professor

      • Doctoral Program Director

  • Fox Chase Cancer Center

      • Member, Cancer Prevention and Control

Biography

Dr. Bradley Collins is a professor and the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University’s College of Public Health. He is also founding Director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic, which has maintained a dynamic extramurally-funded research program and provided clinical services for underserved tobacco smokers in Philadelphia for 15 years. Dr. Collins’ training is in clinical health psychology, and he has dedicated his career to improving health in underserved and vulnerable populations. Applying the broader lens of public health, he has maintained applied community-based and laboratory-based research programs covering a range of health promotion intervention studies (substance use, co-occurring tobacco and mood/anxiety disorders, cancer prevention, and maternal and child health)—all focused. Recent focal areas have included randomized controlled trials testing multilevel intervention strategies to reduce child tobacco exposure and promote cessation, and testing contingent monetary reinforcement to promote breastfeeding among WIC participants.

Dr. Collins has received over $16 million in federally funded research grants and nearly $400,000 in service delivery grants on which he has been principal investigator or mentor. He has published over 85 journal articles and chapters, and has given nearly 200 presentations throughout the U.S. and internationally in India, Cyprus, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. Dr. Collins also serves as an Associate Editor for the scientific journal, Translational Behavioral Medicine. Recognition of his research and service contributions in public health include the Philadelphia College of Physicians Public Health Award, Certificate of Commendation from the governor of Pennsylvania, three mentored student research awards and his election as a Fellow in the national Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Collins also received the Graduate Service Award for his accomplishments organizing and implementing new graduate programs in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Collins has mentored over 45 postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student research projects and supervised over 50 research assistants while at Temple University. He has enjoyed designing and teaching core courses in the MPH and PhD programs, and electives in the undergraduate BSPH program. Through his teaching and mentorship, and as the Department’s Graduate Program Director, Dr. Collins encourages students to explore transdisciplinary frameworks for understanding and addressing current public health priorities in their content areas of interest.

Education

  • PhD, Clinical Psychology (Health Psychology minor), Binghamton University (SUNY)
  • MA, Experimental Psychology (Health Psychology minor), University of Hartford
  • BA, Psychology, Wake Forest University

Curriculum Vitae 

Google Scholar: Bradley Collins's Google Scholar profile

Labs: Health Behavior Research Clinic

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

HRPR 5999

Research Experience in Health Professions

Graduate

SBS 8009

Health Psychology

Graduate

SBS 8112

Concepts and Methods to Improve Public Health Interventions

Graduate

SBS 9083

Readings and Conference in Public Health

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Lepore, S., Collins, B., Killam, H., & Barry, B. (2021). Supportive accountability and mobile app use in a tobacco control intervention targeting low-income minority mothers who smoke: Observational study. JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 9(7). doi: 10.2196/28175.

  • Berardi, V., Bostean, G., Ong, L., Wong, B., Collins, B., & Hovell, M. (2021). The Role of Ethnicity and Nativity in the Correspondence between Subjective and Objective Measures of In-Home Smoking. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. doi: 10.1007/s10903-021-01307-3.

  • Collins, B., Lepore, S., Winickoff, J., & Sosnowski, D. (2020). Parents' Self-efficacy for Tobacco Exposure Protection and Smoking Abstinence Mediate Treatment Effects on Child Cotinine at 12-Month Follow-up: Mediation Results from the Kids Safe and Smokefree Trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 22(11), 1981-1988. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntz175.

  • Washio, Y., Collins, B., Hunt-Johnson, A., Zhang, Z., Herrine, G., Hoffman, M., Kilby, L., Chapman, D., & Furman, L. (2020). Individual breastfeeding support with contingent incentives for low-income mothers in the USA: The 'BOOST (Breastfeeding Onset & Onward with Support Tools)' randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open, 10(6). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034510.

  • Nair, U., Miller, E., Bell, M., Allen, S., Collins, B., & Allen, A. (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of testing a menstrual-cycle timed smoking cessation intervention for women of reproductive age (Project Phase): Protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 18. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100569.

  • Collins, B., Nair, U., DiSantis, K., Hovell, M., Davis, S., Rodriguez, D., & Audrain-McGovern, J. (2020). Long-term Results From the FRESH RCT: Sustained Reduction of Children's Tobacco Smoke Exposure. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58(1), 21-30. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.08.021.

  • Lepore, S., Collins, B., & Sosnowski, D. (2019). Self-efficacy as a pathway to long-term smoking cessation among low-income parents in the multilevel Kids Safe and Smokefree intervention. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 204. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.05.027.

  • Nair, U., Haynes, P., & Collins, B. (2019). Baseline sleep quality is a significant predictor of quit-day smoking self-efficacy among low-income treatment-seeking smokers. Journal of Health Psychology, 24(11), 1484-1493. doi: 10.1177/1359105317740619.

  • Yuan, N., Nair, U., Crane, T., Krupski, L., Collins, B., & Bell, M. (2019). Impact of changes in home smoking bans on tobacco cessation among quitline callers. Health Education Research, 34(3), 345-355. doi: 10.1093/her/cyz008.

  • Lavery, A., Collins, B., Waldman, A., Hart, C., Bar-Or, A., Marrie, R., Arnold, D., O’Mahony, J., & Banwell, B. (2019). The contribution of secondhand tobacco smoke exposure to pediatric multiple sclerosis risk. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 25(4), 515-522. doi: 10.1177/1352458518757089.

  • Collins, B., Nair, U., Komaroff, E., Karekla, M., Panayiotou, G., McCormick, S., & Davis, S. (2019). Trait Persistence Moderates the Association between Gender and Change in Smoking Urge Across Repeated Cue Exposure Trials. Journal of Smoking Cessation, 14(1), 42-61. doi: 10.1017/jsc.2018.12.

  • Collins, B., Nair, U., Davis, S., & Rodriguez, D. (2019). Increasing home smoking restrictions boosts underserved MOMs’ bioverified quit success. American Journal of Health Behavior, 43(1), 50-56. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.43.1.5.

  • Lepore, S., Collins, B., Coffman, D., Winickoff, J., Nair, U., Moughan, B., Bryant-Stephens, T., Taylor, D., Fleece, D., & Godfrey, M. (2018). Kids Safe and Smokefree (KiSS) multilevel intervention to reduce child tobacco smoke exposure: Long-term results of a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6). doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061239.

  • Goodwin, R., Keely, C., Santoscoy, S., Bakoyiannis, N., Hasin, D., Collins, B., Lepore, S., & Wall, M. (2018). Trends in cannabis and cigarette use among parents with children at home: 2002 to 2015. Pediatrics, 141(6). doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-3506.

  • Collins, B., Lepore, S., Winickoff, J., Nair, U., Moughan, B., Bryant-Stephens, T., Davey, A., Taylor, D., Fleece, D., & Godfrey, M. (2018). An office-initiated multilevel intervention for tobacco smoke exposure: A randomized trial. Pediatrics, 141, S75-S86. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-1026K.

  • Karekla, M., Panayiotou, G., & Collins, B. (2017). Predictors of urge to smoke under stressful conditions: An experimental investigation utilizing the PASAT-C task to induce negative affect in smokers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31(7), 735-743. doi: 10.1037/adb0000309.

  • Nair, U., Patterson, F., Rodriguez, D., & Collins, B. (2017). A telephone-based intervention to promote physical activity during smoking cessation: a randomized controlled proof-of-concept study. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 7(2), 138-147. doi: 10.1007/s13142-016-0449-x.

  • Darlow, S., Heckman, C., Munshi, T., & Collins, B. (2017). Thirdhand smoke beliefs and behaviors among healthcare professionals. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 22(4), 415-424. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2016.1189579.

  • Collins, B. & Lepore, S. (2017). Babies Living Safe & Smokefree: Randomized controlled trial of a multilevel multimodal behavioral intervention to reduce low-income children's tobacco smoke exposure. BMC Public Health, 17(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4145-7.

  • Washio, Y., Humphreys, M., Colchado, E., Sierra-Ortiz, M., Zhang, Z., Collins, B., Kilby, L., Chapman, D., Higgins, S., & Kirby, K. (2017). Incentive-based intervention to maintain breastfeeding among low-income Puerto Rican mothers. Pediatrics, 139(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-3119.