Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health; Core Investigator, Institute for Behavioral and Community Health
Dr. Calzo (he/him) is a developmental psychologist with postdoctoral training in social epidemiology. Dr. Calzo’s research focuses on adolescent and young adult health, gender, sexual orientation, and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. His current research interests include partnering with school and community-based programs to develop evidence-based practices to support positive youth development and resilience among LGBTQIA+ youth, and using survey and mixed method research designs to examine and address health inequities among LGBTQIA+ populations, particularly in the areas of eating disorders and substance use.
Representative Publications
- Calzo JP, Poteat VP, Yoshikawa H, Russell ST, Bogart LM. Person-environment fit and positive youth development in the context of high school gay-straight alliances. Journal of Research on Adolescence. In press.
- Calzo JP, Turner BC, Marro R, Phillips II GL. Alcohol use and disordered eating in a US sample of heterosexual and sexual minority adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2019; 58(2): 200-210.
- Calzo JP, Katz-Wise SL, Charlton BM, Gordon AR, Krieger N. Addressing the dearth of critical gender analysis in public health and medical pedagogy: an interdisciplinary seminar to generate student-created teaching examples. Critical Public Health. 2019; 29(1): 18-26.
- Calzo JP, Austin SB, Micali N. Sexual orientation disparities in eating disorder symptoms among adolescent boys and girls in the United Kingdom. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2018; 27(11): 1483-1490.
- Poteat VP, Calzo JP, Yoshikawa H, Miller sj, Ceccolini C, Rosenbach S, Mauceri N. Discussing transgender topics within Gay-Straight Alliances: factors that could promote more frequent conversations. International Journal of Transgenderism. 2018; 19(2): 119-131.
- Calzo JP, Mays VM, Bjӧrkenstam C, Bjӧrkenstam E, Kosidou K, Cochran SD. Parental sexual orientation and children’s psychological well-being: 2013-2015 National Health Interview Survey. Child Development. 2017 (epub).
- Poteat VP, Yoshikawa H, Calzo JP, Russell ST, Horn S. Gay-straight alliances as settings for youth inclusion and development: future conceptual and methodological directions for research on these and other student groups in schools. Educational Researcher. 2017; 46(9): 508-516.
- Calzo JP, Blashill AJ, Brown TA, Argenal RL. Eating disorders and disordered weight and shape behaviors in sexual minority populations. Current Psychiatry Reports. 2017; 19(8): 49.
- Poteat VP, Yoshikawa H, Calzo JP, Gray ML, DiGiovanni CD, Lipkin A, Mundy-Shephard A, Perrotti J, Scheer JR, Shaw MP. Contextualizing Gay-Straight Alliances: student, advisor, and structural factors related to positive youth development among members. Child Development. 2015; 86(1): 176-193. PMCID: PMC4331256.
- Calzo JP, Antonucci TC, Mays VM, Cochran SD. Retrospective recall of sexual orientation identity development among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adults. Developmental Psychology. 2011; 47(6): 1658-1673. PMCID: PMC3210896.
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