Administrator for the Network

Crystal A. Caudill, M.P.H
University of Kentucky
College of Public Health
Center for Prevention Research
121 Washington Avenue, Ste.204
Lexington, KY 40536-0003
Email: Crystal.Caudill@uky.edu
Phone: (859) 257-5678, x82084
Fax: (859) 257-5592

Crystal A. Caudill is currently a Research Administrator at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health in the Center for Prevention Research.  During the past 8 years while working in the Center for Prevention Research, she has been involved in a variety of activities on a number of research projects. Her work in the Center has broadened her vision of possible career trajectories and stimulated a strong and deep interest in a number of public health issues.  

Ms. Caudill is the Research Administrator for a transdisciplinary research network funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  She is also heavily involved in an on-going research project on tobacco and alcohol use in the Navy, Air Force, and Army.  She has been involved in interacting with high level military personnel in the Navy to conduct this project, collected data from sailors, and prepared policy-oriented presentations regarding implications from these data.  She is also responsible for conducting a longitudinal study focused on the policy decision to take the Kentucky State Reformatory, the prison hospital, tobacco free on 1 May 2006.  She is involved in designing the data collection instrument and in collecting all of the data from prisoners about this public health policy change and its effects.

Crystal Caudill’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from the University of Kentucky (2003) as well as a Master’s of Public Health degree with an emphasis in Health Services Management from the University of Kentucky.