GCCF Staff

GCCF co-directors, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Ph.D. and Diane Flannery, Ph.D., travel the world, together and separately, learning about the universal and unique travails and triumphs faced by parents and children in diverse cultures.

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Ph.D., also director of the Center for Community Health (CCH) and Principal Investigator for the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), has spent the past twenty years developing, evaluating, and implementing behavior change programs to improve the lives of children and families. Her lifelong dedication to children’s well-being has inspired her to use her scientific expertise in many innovative ways: developing the first evidence-based social skills training programs for 3rd-5th graders; working with adolescents at risk for substance abuse, HIV, homelessness, depression, suicide, and long-term unemployment, and directing and implementing landmark behavior change programs to support families in risky situations.

Dr. Rotheram-Borus’ evidence-based interventions have been designated as model programs by the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She’s the author or co-author of more than 300 articles in such journals as Science, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Rotheram-Borus is among the top 10 scientists receiving grants from the NIH. She’s the mother of an adult daughter and the very involved aunt of her nieces and nephews.

Dr. Rotheram-Borus can be reached at rotheram@ucla.edu

When Diane Flannery, PhD. came to GCCF in January 2004, she brought twenty years of leadership to the non-profit and social enterprise worlds.

Like Dr. Rotheram-Borus, Dr. Flannery has devoted her adult life to studying how children and families change and designing and implementing interventions to help them do so. For ten years she served as founder and Executive Director of Juma Ventures, an enterprise that employs at-risk San Francisco youth in eight profitable businesses. At Juma Dr. Flannery pioneered an innovative model of social enterprise, bringing together business and social services in much the same way that she is now engaged at GCCF in combining science with other fields of inquiry. Before founding Juma Dr. Flannery was Executive Director of San Francisco’s Larkin Street Services, where she worked with homeless teenagers who were trading sex for Walkmans, living on junk food, and struggling with family relationships. Before her move to San Francisco, Dr. Flannery served as Director of Family Services for the Brooklyn Psychosocial Rehabilitation Institute, designing programs and support groups for parents with problem adolescents.

Dr. Flannery has received awards from the U.S. Department of Labor, the San Francisco Foundation, and President Bush’s 1000 Points of Light. Her projects have been funded by the James Irvine Foundation, the Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation, the Walter Hass, Jr. Foundation, and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. She’s an avid reader and the mother and greatest fan of Maya, her seven-year-old daughter.

Dr. Flannery can be reached at dflannery@mednet.ucla.edu