Brent McBride, PhD

Dr. McBride is Co-Investigator of the Fathers & Families Substudy. He is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (UIUC), and in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. He also serves as Director of the Child Development Laboratory, a program designed to facilitate teaching and research initiatives of faculty and students on the UIUC campus.

The primary focus of Dr. McBride’s research program has been on the antecedents and consequences of father involvement. This work has focused on fathers/father figures of children with and without disabilities, and has included both basic and applied components.

Brent is the father of a 23-year-old emerging adult who has continued to remind her father throughout her life to be open for growth as a parent.