Sarah Lowe, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Lowe’s research focuses on the consequences of exposure to a range of potentially traumatic events for mental health and other domains of functioning. She examines long-term post-trauma mental health symptom patterns, the mechanisms leading from trauma exposure to outcomes, and the role of factors at various socio-ecological levels in shaping risk and resilience. She is currently working on a examining the intergenerational transmission of traumatic stress related to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She also teaches the YSPH course “Trauma and Health.”