Peter Rehder

Peter Rehder is a researcher at AIR. His work is focused on helping communities, practitioners, and policymakers build systems and programs that support healthy development and well-being for children and families, especially those who have traditionally been underserved or marginalized. He has extensive expertise in social and emotional development, developmental psychopathology, parent-child relationships, psychobiology, program evaluation, research methods, and complex quantitative data analysis. He contributes to multiple projects and initiatives, including an Education and Innovation Research grant evaluating impacts of joint delivery of the Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) and Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) programs in Chicago Public Schools on children’s social-emotional learning, an Institute of Education Sciences grant evaluating impacts of the Conjoint Behavioral Consulting program on reducing children’s behavior problems, and AIR’s Cultural and Linguistic Competence Workgroup. His responsibilities include project management, study design, data management and coding, data analysis, report and manuscript writing, and proposal development and writing.

Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Rehder was a research scientist at the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy, where he led a program evaluation that helped community partners in Guilford County, North Carolina to build and evaluate a universal system of psychosocial primary care for families providing individualized assessment, support, and connection to community resources throughout the prenatal and early childhood periods. He has collaborated closely with fellow researchers, community partners and stakeholders, healthcare providers, and funders on large-scale, multisite, longitudinal studies; randomized controlled trials; and innovative pilot studies. Dr. Rehder has authored several peer-reviewed publications and multiple successful foundational and federal grant proposals.