Ashleigh LoVette , PhD

Dr. Ashleigh LoVette is a social and behavioral scientist whose research uses strengths-based and community-engaged approaches to promote the health and well-being of adolescents and emerging adults. A global health scholar, she has spent time completing research and working in Ghana, South Africa, and the United States. Her current research examines how resilience, trauma, and healing along with relationships and social contexts shape sexual and mental health among girls and young women.

With a background in public health and communication, Dr. LoVette applies an interdisciplinary lens to her research and work. She ultimately seeks to use her research findings to develop and implement culturally-relevant trauma-informed interventions and to create structural change by informing policy. In addition to communicating about health and conducting research, she is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable environment of higher education as well as working toward shared goals with community members and organizations.