Amy McQueen’s research is aimed at finding ways to help individuals engage in positive behavioral change and to improve population health by creating systems-level change. She studies the interplay between health behaviors and cognitive, psychosocial and environmental determinants. McQueen applies social psychology and health behavior theory to develop, implement and evaluate behavioral interventions to increase preventive behaviors such as cancer screening and smoking cessation for diverse populations. She uses psychometrics and structural equation modeling to develop measures and to examine complex pathways that influence health behaviors and health outcomes. Her interests encompass health disparities, risk perceptions, health communication, patient-physician communication and usability testing. She is a co-director of the School of Public Health’s Health Communication Research Laboratory.

McQueen teaches Research Methods at WashU Public Health and Survey Methods: Design and Evaluation at WashU Medicine.