Trace Kershaw, PhD
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Biography
Trace Kershaw, PhD, focuses on the social and structural determinants of health (e.g., sexual health, substance use, mental health, reproductive health) among adolescents and emerging adults. His current focus is using innovative technologic methods to understand how social (e.g., how ones friends, partners, and family) and geographic context (e.g., how the places one goes and lives) influences their behaviors and health. Further, he is an expert in developing interventions aimed to improve the health and well being of adolescents and emerging adults.
He is the Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Director of two HIV Training Grants (Yale AIDS Prevention Training, Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars), and Director of the the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has twice won Mentor of the Year. He also serves on expert panels for the NIH and CDC and on several journal editorial boards.
Education & Training
- PhDWayne State University (2000)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Award for Excellence on Mentoring | Yale School of Public Health | 2008 |
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Yale School of Public Health | 2006 |
Departments & Organizations
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
- ENRICH
- Global Health Studies
- Office of Global Health Education
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
- YSPH Global Health Concentration