Rachel Ouellette, PhD

Dr. Rachel Ouellette is an Associate Research Scientist in the Yale School of Medicine Division of Prevention and Community Research. She is a prevention scientist and consultant who partners with a range of community partners to promote the well-being of youth and youth-serving adults (e.g., teachers and after-school providers) through the dissemination and implementation of knowledge. She obtained her PhD in Child and Adolescent Psychology from the Clinical Science Program at Florida International University after completing her predoctoral internship at the Yale School of Medicine with the Yale Consultation Center and West Haven Mental Health Clinic. Her dissertation was funded by an NIH F31 Predoctoral National Research Service Award with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and utilized mixed methods to examine effectiveness supporting youth and social connectedness across staff as predictors of after-school staff work-related well-being, including job stress and satisfaction. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Yale DPCR T32 Postdoctoral Training Program funded by NIDA in Substance Abuse Prevention. Her ongoing research covers two areas: 1) She engages in research, community consultation, and program evaluation to promote data-driven decision-making, social connectedness, and emotional well-being among youth and youth-serving adults in public spaces, including school, after-school, and social media; 2) She engages in mixed method research exploring social media as a potential source of risk and ecological context for dissemination of information to mitigate youth substance use.