Sakinah Carter Suttiratana, PhD, MPH, MBA

Dr. Suttiratana is a Sociologist of Health and Illness whose interests include various sociocultural influences on health. She currently serves as Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships, in the Office of Health Equity Research and Director of Education and Training, Equity Research and Innovation Center at Yale School of Medicine. In these roles, Dr. Suttiratana trains and mentors postdoctoral fellows and mid career health professionals in mixed methods and qualitative research and research that partners across sectors and includes the perspectives of people with lived experience/end users. She also is Community Outreach and Engagement faculty for the Yale Cancer Center.

Current research projects include projects to explore peer mentoring and resource interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in technology use for management of Type 1 diabetes, communications messages around cancer prevention and screening, tobacco and nicotine regulation, and health misinformation, elevating the lived experiences of medical device trial participants, and institutional practices to advance more representative clinical trials.

Dr. Suttiratana has contributed to various translational and community-based research and implementation projects among U.S. and international populations. Dr. Suttiratana has professional experience in epidemiological surveillance, community based, participatory research, clinic-based, comparative effectiveness research, qualitative and mixed methods design and analysis, intervention implementation, program evaluation and health leadership development in the U.S. and the Latin American and Caribbean region including work for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and The California Endowment.