Nada M. Goodrum is a clinical psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her bachelor's degree in psychology and international studies with a minor in Arabic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her PhD in clinical psychology at Georgia State University. Her research investigates family- and community-level risk and protective factors for youth adjustment among families affected by major stressors. Her work currently centers on the impact of trauma, HIV, and substance use on child health and family relationships. She is interested in parents' role in promoting child and adolescent health and preventing the intergenerational transmission of risk. The goal of her research is to eliminate health disparities by using knowledge about risk and protective factors to guide the development of family-based, trauma-informed prevention and intervention efforts.