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Brian Goesling
Senior Researcher
Brian Goesling is a senior researcher with expertise in social programs and trends affecting families and youth.
He currently serves as deputy project director for the Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches, a large, multisite random assignment evaluation of promising approaches to prevent teen pregnancy. He also directs a systematic evidence review for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on programs to reduce teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and associated sexual risk behaviors.
Goesling has published more than a dozen scholarly book chapters and journal articles, including articles in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces. He coauthored a recent report for the U.S. Department of Education on the largest experimental evaluation to date of the effectiveness of mandatory random student drug testing in U.S. high schools. He has also authored research on teenagers’ attitudes toward marriage, the links between marriage and health, and health care coverage among families with children.
Before joining Mathematica, Goesling was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Pennsylvania State University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Adolescent health
- Family support
- Program evaluation
- Education
- Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches
- Pregnancy Prevention Research Evidence Review
- Impact Evaluation of Mandatory Random Student Drug Testing
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance
- Member, American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America
- Editorial Board, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- "The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing" (July 2010)
- "What Do We Know About the Link Between Marriage and Health?" Journal of Family Issues (August 2010)Â
- "Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns" (October 2008)