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Katelyn Romm, PhD

Katelyn Romm, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

katelyn-romm@ou.edu

Dr. Romm is an Assistant Professor in the TSET Health Promotion Research Center and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences. As a life-span developmental psychologist, her research program uses longitudinal, observational research methods to identify sociocontextual determinants of substance use trajectories from adolescence through adulthood. Her currently funded research projects focus on: 1) identifying multilevel drivers of young adult tobacco use trajectories at the intersection of sexual identity and rurality; and 2) understanding gaps in parental knowledge of vaping products and associations of parental vaping knowledge with parenting behaviors and adolescents' nicotine and cannabis vaping.

Dr. Romm aims to inform substance use prevention, intervention, and policy efforts that are developmentally appropriate and culturally tailored. She has methodological expertise in large-scale national survey studies, macro-level longitudinal designs, intensive longitudinal research designs (e.g., ecological momentary assessment), and secondary data analysis of national longitudinal datasets (e.g., PATH, NSDUH).

She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on grants funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society.

Education:

Degree Granting Institutions

  • West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, PhD, 2020, Life-span Developmental Psychology
  • Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, MS, 2015, Clinical Psychology
  • York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA, BS, 2013, Psychology

Post Graduate Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2020-2022

Funding:

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 25% Effort, Vogel, E. A. (Co-Principal Investigator), "Identifying and Addressing the Impact of Parental Vaping-Related Knowledge and Parenting Behaviors on Adolescents' Nicotine and Cannabis Vaping: A Longitudinal Observational and Experimental Approach," Sponsored by National Institute on Drug Abuse, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: R01DA065710
Total Direct Costs: $1,917,315.00
May 15, 2026 - February 28, 2031

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 35% Effort, "Multilevel Stress Influences on Longitudinal Trajectories of Tobacco Use among Young Adults throughout the US," Sponsored by National Institute on Drug Abuse, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: R01DA059480
Total Direct Costs: $1,498,717.00
August 1, 2024 - May 31, 2029

Romm, K. F. (Co-Principal Investigator), 10% Effort, (PI: Cohn), "Ecological Momentary Assessment of Daily Minority Stressors and Cannabis and Tobacco Co-Use among Sexual Minority Adults," Sponsored by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: R21MD019345
Total Direct Costs: $278,225.00
September 21, 2024 - June 30, 2027

Romm, K. F. (Co-Investigator), 5% Effort, (PI: McQuoid), "Empowering Smoking Cessation for Communities with High Stress and Low Social Support in Oklahoma and the ACS South Region," Sponsored by American Cancer Society, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: CHERC-24-1160021-01-CHERC
Total Direct Costs: $1,080,000.00
February 1, 2025 - December 8, 2028

Romm, K. F. (Consultant), (MPIs: Wang, Berg), "Tobacco Use Trajectories and Related Mechanisms among US Adults and Youth Representing Minority and Intersecting Minority Identities," Federal
Grant/Contract Number: R21CA281032
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
April 1, 2025 - March 31, 2027

Romm, K. F. (Consultant), (MPIs: Berg, Cavazos-Rehg), "Recreational Marijuana Marketing and Young Adult Consumer Behavior," Sponsored by National Institute on Drug Abuse, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: R01DA054751
Total Direct Costs: $3,583,823.00
March 25, 2022 - February 28, 2027

Select Completed Funding:

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 15% Effort, "Elucidating Real-time Minority Stress Influences on Tobacco Use at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Rurality: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study," Seed Grant, Sponsored by TSET Health Promotion Research Center, The University of Oklahoma (Institutional)
Total Direct Costs: $100,000.00
July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 10% Effort, (MPI: Vogel), "Social Influences on Parenting Dynamics and Tobacco Use among Sexual Minority Youth," Sponsored by Cancer Prevention and Control, Stephenson Cancer Center, The University of Oklahoma (Institutional)
Grant/Contract Number: 2024-38
Total Direct Costs: $50,000.00
August 1, 2024 - March 28, 2025

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 15% Effort, "Elucidating Multilevel Influences on Tobacco Use at the Intersection of Sexual Orientation and Rurality," Institutional Research Grant, Sponsored by Stephenson Cancer Center, American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant, The University of Oklahoma (Institutional)
Grant/Contract Number: 134128-IRG-19-142-01
Total Direct Costs: $50,000.00
February 1, 2023 - January 31, 2025

Romm, K. F. (Principal Investigator), 100% Effort, (Mentor: Berg), "Parental Influences on Tobacco Use among Sexual Minority Young Adults in a New Market and Policy Landscape," Sponsored by National Institute on Drug Abuse, Federal
Grant/Contract Number: F32DA055388
Total Direct Costs: $11,950.00
May 13, 2022 - September 14, 2022

Select Publications:

Select publications (*denotes student/mentee author):

  1. Romm, K. F., Kong, A. Y., Cavazos-Rehg, P. A., Berg, C. J. (2026). Rural-urban residence in relation to cannabis use influences and behaviors among a sample of US young adults reporting past-month cannabis use. American Journal on Addictions. DOI: 10.1111/ajad.70185
  2. Nhem, M.*, Das, M.*, John, M. E.*, Vogel, E. A., Romm, K. F. (2026). Associations of discrimination, mental health symptoms, and substance use among sexual and gender minority young adults: Differences by type and source of social support. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 23, 100698. DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2026.100698
  3. Frantz, K. E.*, Herbolsheimer, C., Romm, K. F. (2026). Parental beliefs in relation to sexual minority young adults' critical consciousness, mental health, and substance use. Substance Use and Misuse. 1-11. DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2026.2687752
  4. Romm, K. F., Speer, M., McCready, D. M., Thakkar, S., Chakraborty, R., Cavazos-Rehg, P. A., Berg, C. J. (2026). Parental sociodemographic profiles in relation to mental health, cannabis use motives, and cannabis use behaviors among a sample of US young adult parents. Addictive Behaviors, 176, 108635. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2026.108635
  5. Romm, K. F., Das, M.*, Vogel, E. A. (2026). Social support on social media may buffer associations of parental rejection with sexual minority young adults' tobacco use outcomes. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 23, 100707. DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2026.100707
  6. Cagle, C.*, Romm, K. F., Vogel, E. A. (in press). Unmet healthcare needs as a mechanism of rural-urban medical cannabis use disparities among sexual minority young adults. Journal of Rural Health.
  7. Das, M.*, Nhem, M.*, John, M. E.*, Vogel, E. A., Romm, K. F. (2026). Distinct motives for tobacco use among rural versus urban residing sexual minority young adults in Oklahoma and surrounding states. Substance Use and Addiction Journal, 47(3), 782-793. DOI: 10.1177/29767342261426098
  8. Romm, K. F., Gilford Jr, C.*, Das, M.*, Nhem, M.*, Vogel, E. A., Cohn, A. M. (2026). Associations of rural-urban residence with daily experiences of minority stress and tobacco use among sexual minority young adults. Addictive Behaviors, 172, 108525. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108525
  9. Sikora, N.*, Romm, K. F., Smith, M. A., Cohn, A. M. (2025). Associations among minority stress, relaxation and tension-reduction motives, and cannabis use among a sample of sexual and gender minority adults in Oklahoma. Substance Use and Addiction Journal. DOI: 10.1177/29767342251374755
  10. Vogel, E. A., Nhem, M.*, Das, M.*, Romm, K. F. (2025). Social media use and health outcomes as moderated by rurality among sexual minority young adults. American Journal on Addictions, 36(3), 943-970. DOI: 10.1111/ajad.70086
  11. Romm, K. F., Gilford Jr., C.*, Vogel, E. A., McQuoid, J. M., Chen, M., Cohn, A. M., Berg, C. J. (2025). Rural-urban residence, minority stress, and tobacco use among sexual and gender minority young adults in Oklahoma and surrounding states. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 36(3), 943-970. DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2025.a96734

Full List of published works available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katelyn-Romm