Trace Kershaw, PhD
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Department Chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global HealthBiography
Trace Kershaw, PhD, focuses on the social and structural determinants of health (e.g., sexual health, substance use, mental health, reproductive health) among adolescents and emerging adults. His current focus is using innovative technologic methods to understand how social (e.g., how ones friends, partners, and family) and geographic context (e.g., how the places one goes and lives) influences their behaviors and health. Further, he is an expert in developing interventions aimed to improve the health and well being of adolescents and emerging adults.
He is the Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Director of two HIV Training Grants (Yale AIDS Prevention Training, Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars), and Director of the the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has twice won Mentor of the Year. He also serves on expert panels for the NIH and CDC and on several journal editorial boards.
Appointments
Social and Behavioral Sciences
ChairDualSocial and Behavioral Sciences
ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
- ENRICH
- Global Health Studies
- Office of Global Health Education
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
- Women's Health Research at Yale
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
- YSPH Global Health Concentration
Education & Training
- PhD
- Wayne State University (2000)
Research
Overview
Understanding Cell Phone Networks Using Cell Phones: This project uses Mobile Spy (www.mobile-spy.com) software to document all cell phone calls, text messages, and GPS coordinates that members of social networks make to each other to better understand how communication and information flow within networks influences health.
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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- July 17, 2024
NYC official developed her knowledge of social justice, racial equity at YSPH
- November 30, 2023
Yale School of Public Health shines at annual public health conference
- February 20, 2023Source: Yale Daily News
“She is the best of us:” Ijeoma Opara and the power of health advocacy
- February 07, 2023
Noted civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw receives Winslow Medal