About the Developers

Dr. Flavio Francisco Marsiglia was lead author for the evidence-based curriculum Keepin' It REAL: Drug Resistance Strategies. He received his PhD in 1991 from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Since 1994, hehas been a member of the faculty of the Arizona State University School of Social Work where he is currently the Distinguished Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Health and the Director of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC). SIRC is one of seven social work research centers in the nation funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA).

In addition, Dr. Marsiglia is the Principal Investigator of other NIH/NIDA-and CDC funded research projects studying risk and protective factors associated with health outcomes among Mexican/Mexican American and Native American youth and their families.

Dr. Marsiglia is the lead instructor for the Diversity and Oppression in the Social Work Context course sequence. He has published more than 30 manuscripts in his areas of specialization and has coauthored with Stephen Kulis a forthcoming book entitled Culturally Grounded Social Work.

Dr. Marsiglia and his SIRC colleagues have presented their research findings at conferences across the nation and at international conferences in numerous countries including Mexico, Canada, Uruguay, Spain, and Italy. Two of his current studies are been conducted in partnership with Mexican and Spanish universities.