Tia McGill Rogers, PhD, MPH

I have worked in various capacities in the field of public health including direct service provision, training, and research -- all towards the goal of advancing the knowledge base and service availability for children and families across the globe.  My work focuses on mixed methods approaches to understanding the mechanisms through which adverse life experiences impact trajectories for children, adolescents, and families, with a specific focus on promoting resilience and coping.  I am currently a research fellow, with a joint appointment in the departments of epidemiology and social and behavioral sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  I work on several projects investigating trauma epidemiology, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) risk and resilience, behavioral epidemiology, and behavioral epigenetics.  Upon completing my PhD, I completed a one year Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral research fellowship, in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where I investigated key factors related to religious coping with violence exposure (including IPV) among war exposed adults, as a part of a prospective longitudinal/intergenerational study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone.