Alison Culyba is Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Culyba is Director of the Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity Program (CEED) in the Institute for Clinical Research Education. Culyba's NIH, CDC, and SAMHSA funded research examines the role of social networks and environmental contexts in protecting youth from violence and translates findings into community-based interventions.

Culyba’s work models social networks to study associations between adolescent-adult connections and multiple forms of violence victimization and perpetration. Through an implementation science framework, she develops and tests community-based violence prevention interventions that leverage connections and safeguards youth. Culyba is PI of the CDC R01 Forging Hopeful Futures study examining the effectiveness of a racial, gender, and economic justice curriculum for youth through a community-based cluster randomized trial.

Culyba also investigates novel methods to study how physical and social environments shape violence risk. As Director of the Empowering Teens to Thrive hospital-based violence intervention program for assault-injured youth at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Culyba provides medical follow-up and linkage to support services to promote recovery following violent injury.