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Leslie Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, specializing in Public Mental Health. With a background in health behavior and public health, Dr. Adams focuses on addressing mental health disparities among people of African descent and marginalized communities. Her research emphasizes the impact of structural racism, gender norms, and psychosocial stressors on mental health outcomes. Utilizing mixed-methods approaches, including ecological momentary assessment and passive data sensing, she explores real-time stressors such as racial discrimination and their links to depressive symptoms and suicidality. Before joining Stanford, Dr. Adams served as an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Health Behavior, an MPH from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and a BA in Neuroscience from Dartmouth College.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Focus on Public Mental Health and addressing disparities.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health • Baltimore, MD
Conducted research on public health issues.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies • Cambridge, MA
Engaged in advanced research and development in population studies.
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