Daniel Romer, Ph.D.
Dan Romer is the Research Director of Adolescent Risk Communication Institute (ARCI) of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. He has conducted policy-relevant research at the Annenberg School and Policy Center since 1990. His work has focused on media and social influences on adolescent health with particular attention to the social transmission of risky behavior. He has studied the effects of local television news on race relations and intergroup tension. In addition, he has studied the role of education on the civic and political engagement of adolescents. He also contributed to the design of the first National Annenberg Election Survey and is an author of the recently released book, Capturing Campaign Dynamics (Oxford, 2003) that contains a copy of the survey data and methods for analyzing the dataset. His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has served on several grant review panels for NIH and is on the editorial board of Youth and Society.
Since the founding of ARCI, his efforts have focused on national policy related to improving the health of adolescents. His edited volume, Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Strategy (Sage Press, 2003), presents the findings of a conference held at ARCI in 2002 to define a more comprehensive national strategy for healthy adolescent development. Another recent edited issue of the American Behavioral Scientist (May 2003), "Suicide in Youth," focuses on strategies to reduce adolescent suicide. He also directs the National Annenberg Risk Survey of Youth, an annual study of 900 youth ages 14 to 22 sponsored by ARCI.