Kris Bosworth
Kris Bosworth, Ph.D. is a professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Program (EDLP) in the Department of the College of Education at the University of Arizona. Since 1998, she has held the Smith Endowed Chair in Prevention and Education.
Dr. Bosworth’s overarching scholarship and practice focus on prevention and school safety grounded in environmental school-based approaches. Her model Protective Schools focuses on creating and maintaining school and classroom climates that are protective and supportive of positive youth development.
Dr. Bosworth provides leadership on a set of projects and state and federal grants dealing directly with school leaders, school mental health personnel, school resource officers, teachers, and youth.
She is the lead author of the Drug Prevention module of the State Department-funded Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC) and has trained prevention professionals internationally on school-based prevention interventions. Dr. Bosworth has served on numerous federally and state-sponsored expert and technical review panels addressing various issues in the field of school-based prevention. Recently she was the writing team leader for the Arizona Department of Education School Safety Task Force, where she created a “Comprehensive School Safety Plan Checklist.”
Previously, Dr. Bosworth was a research scientist at the Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the faculty in the School of Education at Indiana University where she directed the Center for Adolescent Studies and a Visiting Scientist on the Youth Violence Prevention team at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
She is the author of more than a dozen multimedia and video programs for young people with subjects that include AIDS, alcohol and drugs, sexuality, and violence. These projects have earned awards from the American Medical Association National Congress on Adolescent Health (1989) and the Society for Technology and Teacher Education (1992), as well as the Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Programs Award from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (2000).
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