Dr. Norberg is an epidemiologist and child psychiatrist with long-standing interest in adolescent development, and applications of behavioral economics and econometric methods to public health. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School. She began her recent transition to epidemiology and health policy research through affiliation with the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. She was the recipient of an NIMH career development award for the study of adolescent suicide, served on a National Research Council Panel to study data and research relating to firearms, and was a coauthor (with economists David Cutler and Edward Glaeser) of an analysis of social and environmental factors contributing to adolescent suicide. She is a co-investigator on several projects currently sponsored through Washington University's Center for Health Policy, and has recently begun to collaborate with genetic epidemiologists in the Department of Psychiatry on studies pertaining to the interplay of gene and environmental influences on adolescent risk-taking.