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Bradley Collins

  • College of Public Health

    • Social and Behavioral Sciences

      • Professor

  • Fox Chase Cancer Center

      • Member, Cancer Prevention and Control

Biography

Dr. Bradley Collins is a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) at Temple University's College of Public Health. He recently served for seven years as the department’s founding graduate program director. In that role, he led the development and launch of the PhD program in SBS, facilitated the development and launch of the online master of public health program, and oversaw operations of those programs as well as the preexisting MPH in SBS. In addition, Dr. Collins is the founding director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic (HBRC). For 18 years, the HBRC has maintained a dynamic extramurally-funded research program in cancer control and prevention, maternal and child health, and health behavior promotion in underserved communities, and he has provided clinical services for underserved tobacco smokers in Philadelphia. Prior to coming to Temple University, he was a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Collins has received over $20 million in extramurally-funded research grants ($18 million as a principal investigator or senior scientist mentor) and over $300,000 in service delivery grants as program director. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has given over 200 peer-reviewed presentations throughout the U.S., as well as international meetings throughout mainland Europe as well as Cyprus and India. Dr. Collins also serves as an associate editor for the scientific journal Translational Behavioral Medicine and was elected as a fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Recognition of his research and service contributions in public health include the Philadelphia College of Physicians Public Health Award, Certificate of Commendation from the governor of Pennsylvania, four mentored student research awards, and departmental awards including the Mentor Award for outstanding mentorship of graduate students and junior faculty, and the Graduate Service Award for his accomplishments organizing and implementing new graduate programs in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Collins has mentored over 45 postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate student research projects and supervised nearly 60 research assistants while at Temple University. He has enjoyed designing and teaching core courses in the MPH and PhD programs and electives in the undergraduate BS in public health program. Through his teaching and mentorship, and as the department's graduate program director, Dr. Collins has encouraged students to explore transdisciplinary frameworks for understanding and addressing current public health priorities in their content areas of interest.

Dr. Collins' training is in clinical health psychology, and he has dedicated his career to improving health in underserved and vulnerable populations. Applying the wide lens of public health, he has maintained research programs in applied community-based research programs covering a range of health promotion intervention studies (substance use, co-occurring tobacco and mood/anxiety disorders, cancer prevention, and maternal and child health)—all focused on reducing health disparities. Recent focal areas have included randomized controlled trials testing multilevel intervention strategies to reduce child tobacco exposure and promote cessation among low-income smokers, and testing a reinforcement-based counseling approach to extend breastfeeding uptake and duration among WIC participants.

Education

  • PhD, Clinical Psychology (Health Psychology minor), Binghamton University (SUNY)
  • MA, Experimental Psychology (Health Psychology minor), University of Hartford
  • BA, Psychology, Wake Forest University

Curriculum Vitae 

Google Scholar: Bradley Collins's Google Scholar profile

Labs: Health Behavior Research Clinic

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

SBS 2103

Health Psychology and Human Behavior

Undergraduate

SBS 2903

Honors Health Psychology and Human Behavior

Undergraduate

SBS 8009

Health Psychology

Graduate

SBS 8112

Creating Novel Interventions in Public Health

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Lepore, S.J., Collins, B.N., & Egleston, B.L. (2025). Babies Living Safe and Smokefree (BLiSS) Intervention Reduces Children's Tobacco Smoke Exposure Directly and Indirectly by Improving Maternal Smokers' Urge Management Skills and Exposure Protection Behaviors. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 22(2). Switzerland. 10.3390/ijerph22020254

  • Collins, B.N., Lepore, S.J., & Egleston, B.L. (2023). Eliminating children's tobacco smoke exposure: a pathway to bioverified abstinence among low-income maternal smokers in the Babies Living Safe and Smokefree (BLiSS) trial. J Behav Med, 46(6), 1042-1048. United States. 10.1007/s10865-023-00423-9

  • Wheldon, C.W., Sykes, K.J., Ramaswamy, M., Bass, S.B., & Collins, B.N. (2023). Integrating HPV Vaccination Within PrEP care Delivery for Underserved Populations: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study. J Community Health, 48(4), 640-651. Netherlands. 10.1007/s10900-023-01202-y

  • Baishya, M., Zisman-Ilani, Y., Hoadley, A., Litsas, D., Roth, S., & Collins, B.N. (2023). Urban neighbourhood elements that influence psychoactive substance use among populations with adverse childhood experiences: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(5), e066796. England. 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066796

  • Chin, S.M., Lepore, S.J., Collins, B.N., Dumenci, L., & Rincon, M.A. (2023). Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Tobacco Urge Management Scale (TUMS). Int J Environ Res Public Health, 20(8). Switzerland. 10.3390/ijerph20085453

  • Washio, Y., Collins, B.N., & Kilby, L.M. (2023). Emerging Opportunities to Improve Treatment Access for Substance Use Disorders and Other Comorbid Health Issues Among Women Enrolled in WIC. Health Promot Pract, 24(2), 214-217. United States. 10.1177/15248399211069094

  • Schuler, B.R., Collins, B.N., Scheuermann, T.S., Baishya, M., Kilby, L., & Lepore, S.J. (2023). Translating pediatric primary care best practice guidelines for addressing tobacco in the WIC system. Transl Behav Med, 13(2), 57-63. England. 10.1093/tbm/ibac079

  • Baishya, M.L., Collins, B.N., & Lepore, S.J. (2022). Antecedents of Self-Efficacy to Achieve Smoking-Behavior-Change Goals among Low-Income Parents Enrolled in an Evidence-Based Tobacco Intervention. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(20). Switzerland. 10.3390/ijerph192013573

  • Berardi, V., Bostean, G., Ong, L.Q., Wong, B.S., Collins, B.N., & Hovell, M.F. (2022). The Role of Ethnicity and Nativity in the Correspondence between Subjective and Objective Measures of In-Home Smoking. J Immigr Minor Health, 24(5), 1214-1223. United States. 10.1007/s10903-021-01307-3

  • Monshi, S.S., Collins, B.N., Wu, J., Alzahrani, M.A.J., & Ibrahim, J.K. (2022). Tobacco advertisement, promotion and sponsorship in Arabic media between 2017 and 2019. Health Policy Plan, 37(8), 990-999. England. 10.1093/heapol/czac039

  • Monshi, S.S., Wu, J., Collins, B.N., & Ibrahim, J.K. (2022). Youth susceptibility to tobacco use in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, 2001-2018. Prev Med Rep, 26, 101711. United States. 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101711

  • Collins, B.N., Lepore, S.J., & Egleston, B.L. (2022). Multilevel Intervention for Low-Income Maternal Smokers in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Am J Public Health, 112(3), 472-481. United States. 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306601

  • Berardi, V., Collins, B.N., Glynn, L.M., Lepore, S.J., Mahabee-Gittens, E.M., Wilson, K.M., & Hovell, M.F. (2022). Real-time feedback of air quality in children's bedrooms reduces exposure to secondhand smoke. Tob Prev Cessat, 8, 23. Greece. 10.18332/tpc/149908

  • Lepore, S.J., Collins, B.N., Killam, H.W., & Barry, B. (2021). Supportive Accountability and Mobile App Use in a Tobacco Control Intervention Targeting Low-Income Minority Mothers Who Smoke: Observational Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 9(7), e28175. Canada. 10.2196/28175

  • Lepore, S.J., Collins, B.N., Killam, H.W., & Barry, B. (2021). Supportive Accountability and Mobile App Use in a Tobacco Control Intervention Targeting Low-Income Minority Mothers Who Smoke: Observational Study (Preprint). doi: 10.2196/preprints.28175.

  • Collins, B.N., Lepore, S.J., Winickoff, J.P., & Sosnowski, D.W. (2020). Parents' Self-efficacy for Tobacco Exposure Protection and Smoking Abstinence Mediate Treatment Effects on Child Cotinine at 12-Month Follow-up: Mediation Results from the Kids Safe and Smokefree Trial. Nicotine Tob Res, 22(11), 1981-1988. England. 10.1093/ntr/ntz175

  • Washio, Y., Collins, B.N., Hunt-Johnson, A., Zhang, Z., Herrine, G., Hoffman, M., Kilby, L., Chapman, D., & Furman, L.M. (2020). Individual breastfeeding support with contingent incentives for low-income mothers in the USA: the 'BOOST (Breastfeeding Onset & Onward with Support Tools)' randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open, 10(6), e034510. England. 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034510

  • Nair, U.S., Miller, E.S., Bell, M.L., Allen, S., Collins, B.N., & Allen, A.M. (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of testing a menstrual-cycle timed smoking cessation intervention for women of reproductive age (Project Phase): Protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun, 18, 100569. Netherlands. 10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100569

  • Collins, B.N., Nair, U.S., DiSantis, K.I., Hovell, M.F., Davis, S.M., Rodriguez, D., & Audrain-McGovern, J. (2020). Long-term Results From the FRESH RCT: Sustained Reduction of Children's Tobacco Smoke Exposure. Am J Prev Med, 58(1), 21-30. Netherlands. 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.08.021