Meet Nichole Scaglione, Ph.D., CHES

Assistant Professor

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Education

• Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University (2015)
• M.S. in Health Promotion, Miami University (Ohio; 2008)
• B.A. in Psychology, Miami University (Ohio, 2006)

Scaglione CV

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Biography

Nichole Scaglione, Ph.D., CHES, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Behavior. Dr. Scaglione has over 10 years of experience leading federally-funded (i.e., DoD, CDC, NIH) projects aimed at reducing substance misuse and sexual violence in adolescents and young adults.

Her research combines health behavior theory and mobile technologies to examine decision-making processes associated with drinking, drug use, and sexual risk, both globally and at the event level (during specific drinking/substance use occasions).

She uses findings from her etiological work to develop and test interventions that target these processes to reduce individual and community risk for sexual violence (current NIH/NIAAA R34).

Prior to joining the HEB faculty, Dr. Scaglione was a public health scientist at RTI International where she played a major role in the development and feasibility testing of a tailored, tablet-based sexual assault prevention program in Basic Military Training for the U.S. Air Force. She has recently adapted and tested the efficacy of this training for the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Other ongoing projects include a community-based evaluation of a bystander and violence prevention training for staff at alcohol-serving establishments (CDC U01), a rigorous evaluation of a sexual violence prevention program for high school boys (CDC R01), and secondary data analysis of event-level alcohol use and contextual risk factors associated with sexual risk in college.

Research Interests

• Risk and protective behaviors associated with sexual assault outcomes (victimization, revictimization, perpetration, bystander behavior)
• Decision-making processes that impact substance use and sexual risk
• Novel interventions for preventing violence and/or substance abuse
• Adolescent, college, and military populations
• Event-level data collection and intervention methods

Recent Publications

2026

• Kan, M., Lowe, A., Williams, J. A., Roberts, C., Suellentrop, K., & Scaglione, N. M. (2026). Implementation and proximal outcomes of the Men of Strength Club for high school boys. Journal of Youth Development, in press.
• Schmied, E.A., Kan, M. (co-first authors), Blakey, S.M., Robinson, W.K., Watson, C.J., Jun, H., Grimes, K., Henretty, K., Wilson, L., Moyer, R., Reed, M., & Scaglione, N. M. (2026). Combining alcohol misuse and sexual assault prevention enhances training outcomes in a U.S. Military Service Academy. Journal for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Advance online publication.

2025

• *Grimes, K. E. L., Schmied, E. A., Altarejos, I. V., Batra, P., Perez, V. G., Korenman, L. M., Simon-Arndt, C. M., Frerichs, L., Stover, A., Scaglione, N. M., Kan, M. L., & Shea, C. M. (2025). Factors influencing the implementation of integrated prevention programming in the United States military: Qualitative perspectives from recipients, implementers, and leaders. Military Psychology, Advance online publication.
• *Grimes, K. E. L., Kan, M. L., Macy, R. J., Martin, S L., Eckhoff, R., Root, M. K., Frerichs, L., Stover, A. M., Shea, C. M., & Scaglione, N. M. (2025). A pre-post evaluation of the Sexual Communication and Consent training program in United States Air Force Basic Military Training, 2019-2020. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Advance online publication.
• *Siuluta, N., Villalba, K., Candidate, S. S., Lopez-Quintero, C., Scaglione, N. M., & Cook, R. L. (2025). Sociodemographic characteristics associated with lifetime and recent traumatic experiences among people living with HIV in Florida. AIDS and Behavior. Advance online publication.
• Kalina, E. K., Russell, M., Cruz, G., Leeman, R., & Scaglione, N. M. (2025). Behavioral reactivity to ecological momentary assessment of alcohol and sexual assault protective behavioral strategies. Clinical and Experimental Psychopharmacology. Advance online publication.
• *Grimes, K. E. L., Scaglione, N. M., Kan, M. L., Frerichs, L., Shea, C. M., & Stover, A. M. (2025). Psychometric assessment of scales used to evaluate sexual assault prevention  programming in the United States Air Force. PLOSone, 20(1), e0317557.

2024

• *Rizzo, A. J., Scaglione, N. M., Kan, M., & Lowe, A. (2024). Malleable risk factors associated with boys’ patterns of interpersonal violence: A latent class analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(23-24), 5574-5604.
• Kan, M. L., Scaglione, N. M., Buben, A., Morgan, J. K., Grimes, K. E. L., Watson, C., Charm, S., Lowe, A., Eckhoff, R. P., Lane, M. E., Root, M. K., & Pound, L. B. (2024). Feasibility and acceptability of tailored sexual assault prevention in the U.S. Air Force. BMC: Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10, 145.
• *Goldstein, S. & Scaglione, N. M. (co-first authors), Kan, M. L., Grimes, K. E. L., Lane, M. E., Morgan, J. K., & Martin, S. L. (2024). Accuracy, acceptability, and burden of an integrated screening approach to facilitate the delivery of tailored sexual assault prevention in the U.S. Air Force. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1-21.