Lisa A. Eaton, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Research on Sexual Violence & Empowerment

Professor, Human Development & Family Sciences

Lisa A. Eaton is a social and behavioral health scholar with training in psychology and public health who is primarily interested in social determinants of health and well-being. Her work focuses on the multi-level impact of social factors on linkage, access, and retention to social services and healthcare among diverse populations, particularly among those who have been experienced violence and stigma. She has developed and evaluated multiple interventions to improve health outcomes among minoritized populations. Lisa has served as Principal Investigator at Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy since 2011 and as the Associate Director of the Southeast HIV/AIDS Research and Evaluation Project and Associate Director of the Sexuality, Health, Intersectional Experiences (SHInE) Lab. She began her studies at UConn in 2000 and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and her Ph.D. in social psychology. She completed her postdoctoral training in public health at Yale University.