Fellowship:  Emory University Rollins School of Public Health & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1997-1999.

Ph.D.  Health Education and Health Promotion, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. 1998.

M.P.H.  Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. 1994.

B.S.  Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1991. 

PUBH 6250: Evidence Based Public Health

PUBH 6210: Health Assessment and Surveillance Research

Publications (since 2005):

Brooks, B, Blackley, D, Masters, P, May, S, Mayes, S, Williams, C, Pack, RP, (accepted April 2013) Developing an Academic Health Department in Northeast Tennessee: A Sustainable Approach Through Student Leadership. Forthcoming in: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Hagemeier, NE, Gray, JA & Pack, RP (accepted March 2013). Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescriber and Pharmacist Perspectives. Forthcoming in: Substance Use and Misuse

Southerland, J, Wang, L, Richards, K, Pack, RP, Slawson, DL (accepted Dec 2012). Misperceptions of overweight: Associations of weight misperception with health- related quality of life among normal weight adults attending a central Appalachian university. Forthcoming in: Public Health Reports.

Brooks, B, Blackley, D, Masters, P, May, S, Mayes, S, Williams, C, Pack, RP, (accepted April 2013) Developing an Academic Health Department in Northeast Tennessee: A Sustainable Approach Through Student Leadership. Forthcoming in: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Hagemeier, NE, Gray, JA & Pack, RP (accepted March 2013). Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescriber and Pharmacist Perspectives. Forthcoming in: Substance Use and Misuse

Southerland, J, Wang, L, Richards, K, Pack, RP, Slawson, DL (accepted Dec 2012). Misperceptions of overweight: Associations of weight misperception with health- related quality of life among normal weight adults attending a central Appalachian university. Forthcoming in: Public Health Reports.

Pack, RP, Li, X, Stanton, B, Cottrel, L, (2011)  Psychosocial Correlates of Dual Contraceptive Use in Urban Adolescents.  ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 2011 Article ID:  469610, 7 pages.

White, R,  Zullig, KJ, Lander, L, Shockley, C, Pack, RP, Sullivan, CR (2011).   Preliminary results of the West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline. Health Promotion Practice.  Sept 13 2011 epub ahead of print.      

Arvelo, W, Blum, LS, Nahar, N, von Seidlein, L, Nahar, L, Pack, RP, Brooks, AW, Pach, A,      Breiman, RF, Luby, SP, Ram, PK (2011). Community Perceptions of Bloody Diarrhoea in the Urban Slum of Kamalapur, Bangladesh: Implications for Introduction of a Shigella Vaccine. Epidemiol. Infect. 139, 599?605.

Zullig, KJ, Lander, L, White, RJ, Sullivan, CR, Shockley, C, Dong, L, Pack, RP, Surber Fedis, T (2010) Preliminary Evaluation of the WV Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline. West Virginia Medical Journal 106, 4, 38-46.

Martin, BC, Stoots, JM, Pack, RP, Wykoff, RF, Dreyzehner, JJ (2010) Potential approaches to address the undergraduate public health training needs for working professionals: A case study of one rural area. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 16(2), 128-133.

Lanier, MM, Pack, RP & Akers, TA (2010) Epidemiologic Criminology: Drug use among gang members. Journal of Correctional Health Care. 16:6-16

Pendleton S, Stanton, B, Cottrell, L, Marshall, S, Harris, C, Pack, R, Burns, J, Gibson, C, Wu, L, Li, X (2007) Teens in the twenty-first century still prefer people over machines. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Children and Youth. 8(2): 95-115.

Chen, X, Stanton, B, von Seidlein, L, Nyamette, N, Pach, A, Kaljee, L, Pack, RP, Clemens, J, Youlang, D, Mao, R (2006). Differences in Perception of Dysentery and Enteric Fever and Willingness to Receive Vaccines Among Rural Residents in China Vaccine 24(5):561-71

Pack, RP, Wang, Y, Singh, A, von Seidlein, L, Pach, A, Kaljee, L, Butraporn, P, Youlong, G, Blum, L, Bhutta, Z, Santoso, T, Nyamete, A, Clemens, J, Stanton, B (2006). Willingness to be vaccinated against shigella and other forms of dysentery: a multisite comparison of three regions in Asia. Vaccine 24(4):485-94.

Stanton, B, Harris, C, Cottrell, L, Li, X, Gibson, C, Guo, J, Pack, RP, Galbraith, J, Pendleton, S, Wu, Y, Marshall, S (2006) Trial of an urban adolescent risk reduction program for rural youth: An imperfect fit. Journal of Adolescent Health. 38(1):55

Stanton, B, Guo, J, Cottrell, L, Galbraith, J, Li, X, Gibson, C, Pack, R, Cole, M, Marshall, Harris, C (2005) The complex business of adapting effective interventions to new populations: an urban to rural transfer Journal of Adolescent Health 37(163):17-26.

Pack, RP, Krishnamurthy, G, Cottrell L, Stanton BF, D'Alessandri, D, Burns, J (2005) Caregiver predictors of adolescent inhalant abuse in rural Appalachia. American Journal of Health Behavior; 29(4):331-341.

Robertson, A, Baird-Thomas, C, St. Lawrence, JS & Pack, RP (2005) Predictors of Infection with Chlamydia or Gonorrhea in Incarcerated Adolescents. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Feb;32(2):115-22

Book Chapters:

Florence, J, Pack, RP, Southerland, J, Wykoff, RF. (2012) The depth of rural health disparities in America:  the ABCDE's.  In Wendel and Crosby, (eds.)  Handbook of Rural Health.

Non-peer reviewed articles:

Pack, RP (2010).  Alarmingly High:  Prescription Drug Abuse in Appalachia.  Now & Then: the Appalachian Magazine. July 2010.

Zullig, KJ, Pack, RP, Sullivan, CR, Lander, L, Shockley, C, White, R, Laton, A, & Hobbs, G      (2010).   Preliminary results of the West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline. 2010 AAPHERD National Conference and Exposition;  March 16-20 2010, Indianapolis. 

Pack, RP.  Criminology and Public Health:  Toward Common Ground.  Invited talk for EPI 1892XX:  Epidemiologic Criminiology.  APHA 2008; San Diego 2008.

Pack, RP & Cooper, EA. Mechanisms for prescription drug abuse in Appalachia:  Preliminary data from inpatient prescription drug abusers.  APHA 2008; San Diego 2008.

Pack, RP (2007)  Sampling, Estimation and Research Methods.  WVU Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry Annual Scholarship Retreat, Snowshoe Resort, WV.  August 24-26 2007

Pack, RP (2007)  Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention in Rural Appalachia.  National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics. Charleston WV.  August 19-22 2007.

Pack, R.P., Roberts, E.G., Cooper, E.P., Manzo, K.S.  Mechanisms of prescription drug abuse in Appalachia:  Preliminary data from 30 inpatient prescription drug abusers  "Piecing the Appalachian Experience: Celebrating a Region".  Maryville College, Maryville, TN.  March 23-25, 2007.

Pack, RP (2009)  Prescription Drug Abuse.  ETSU Quillen College of Medicine.  February 2009.

Pack, RP (2009)  Prescription Drug Abuse.  ETSU Center for Appalachian Studies.  January 2009.

Pack, RP (2007)  Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention in Rural Appalachia & Graduate training programs in Public Health at WVU.  WV Public Health Association, Lab/Epi Section. Morgantown WV.  Sept 30 2007.

Pack, RP (2007)  Sampling, Estimation and Research Methods.  WVU Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry Annual Scholarship Retreat, Snowshoe Resort, WV.  August 24-26 2007

Pack, RP (2007)  Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention in Rural Appalachia.  National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics. Charleston WV.  August 19-22 2007.

Pack RP (2006)  Public Health:  Prescription Drug and Inhalant Abuse in Rural WV.  14th Annual WV Rural Health Conference.  Stonewall Jackson Park, WV.  October 25-27 2006.

Selected Extramural Funding (since 2005):

Robert Pack (PI) 2012-2013
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Tennessee Public Health Traineeships. This is a one-year Public Health Traineeship aimed at environmental health and epidemiology workforce development in the State of Tennessee. Project period: Sept 2012-August 2013. $6,000.

Robert Pack (PI) 2010-2015
Health Research Services Administration (HRSA)
Public Health Training Center.
This is a five-year award for a statewide Public Health Training Center aimed at workforce development in the State of Tennessee. Grant Number:  UB6HP20186.  Project period:  Sept 2010-August 2014.   $3,249,999 ? direct costs.

Robert Pack (PI & Co-I) 10/2008-06/2010
State of Tennessee
Coordinated School Health Evaluation
This was a six year (2004-2010) evaluation of a state-wide Coordinated School Health effort (adopted role of PI upon a faculty departure; assigned PI to faculty after one year). $2,031,304 ? direct costs.  Specific roles: PI July 2008-July 2009; Co ?I July 2009-June 2010.

Robert Pack (PI) 10/2007-2/2008
State of West Virginia
Prescription Drug Abuse Hotline
This was a three year project to develop implement and evaluate a prescription drug abuse hotline in the Central Appalachian region. $1,000,000 ? direct and indirect costs (relinquished role as PI upon move to Tennessee).

Robert Pack (PI) 2/2006-10/2007
West Virginia Attorney General?s Office
Community and Family-Based Initiative to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse and Intervention
This study investigates the prevalence of prescription drug abuse in selected West Virginia counties and explores the mechanisms through which these drugs get into the community. $200,000 ? direct and indirect costs.