Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officials.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Jeanne Poduska, Sc.D.

Principal Research Scientist

Dr. Jeanne Poduska is Deputy Director of AIR’s Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools and a Principal Research Scientist. She holds an M.S. in education and a Sc.D. in public health, both from Johns Hopkins University. She has been working with communities, schools, and school districts around issues of prevention and mental health services for 14 years. Dr. Poduska is Co-Principal Investigator and the Project Director for a population-based randomized field trial of a preventive intervention in twelve schools. The trial is funded by NIDA with contributions by NICHD and utilizes a developmental epidemiological prevention research strategy aiming a precisely defined intervention at specific early risk factors and employing randomized designs to allow examination of the variation in impact on developmental paths and outcomes. The intervention focuses on integrating behavior management strategies, teacher instructional practices, and family classroom partnerships in first grade towards the goal of improving academic achievement and behavior and preventing later drug abuse, school drop-out, aggressive behavior, and other mental health outcomes. Dr. Poduska is also the Co-PI on several grants funding longitudinal research on three cohorts of children, now teenagers and young adults, who participated in school-based preventive interventions in earlier years. She has adjunct appointments with the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, and the University of South Florida.