Her interests include child, adolescent, and family health promotion, as well as community based cancer prevention research. She recently received a career development award from NCI to investigate contextual and group level processes that impact the initiation and progression of youth tobacco use. Dr. Stanton is also co-investigator of a NIDA funded clinical trial examining culturally sensitive behavioral interventions for nicotine dependence. She is especially interested in cultural differences in the development of health behaviors and novel prevention interventions that reinforce protective influences in youth's social environments.