Joseph L. Fava, PhD, is a research associate at the Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital. He is a quantitative psychologist and specializes in measure development, structural equation modeling, and multivariate statistics. He has over 30 years of research experience as a co-investigator, psychometrician, and statistician on more than 50 funded research projects in a broad range of behavioral health areas, including the areas of smoking cessation, weight reduction and weight maintenance, dietary behavior, HIV prevention, exercise, stress management and multiple risk behavior interventions with both adult and adolescent populations.
Dr. Fava has assisted in the development of measures that assess a variety of psychological, health policy and educational constructs, such as stress management, perceived stress and coping, multilevel measures of resilience, smoking cessation, smoking policy, dietary behavior, alcohol abuse intervention, user acceptability of interactive health technology, employee participation in worksite health programs, and user sensory perceptions and experiences of microbicides and other medical devices for protection from HIV and sexually transmitted infections.