Candace Black, PhD

Since attaining a doctorate with distinction in Psychology, Dr. Candace J. Black has published eight articles, three book chapters, and obtained two small grants with a unifying theme around evolutionary-developmental models of child development, life history (LH), trauma, physical and reproductive health, and translational research. She has studied LH effects on sexual, physical, and mental health, social and sexual equality, intergroup conflict, and intimate partner violence using measurement theory, psychometrics, general linear modeling, multi-level modeling, cascade modeling, and structural equation modeling. The populations she has studied, and in some cases intervened with, include indigenous groups in Chile and Mexico, trafficked persons in Arizona, and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. As a 2019-2020 Fellow in Maternal and Child Health with the Arizona Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program, Dr. Black is gaining proficiencies in clinical practice and research, engaging policy makers, and intervention research for children with disabilities. In May 2020, Dr. Black will begin a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Research Program on Children and Adversity with Dr. Theresa Betancourt at Boston College. Following her year in Boston, Dr. Black will complete a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with Dr. Michael Pluess at Queen Mary University of London. Her postdoctoral training goals include increasing her sophistication with intervention research with children and families facing adversity, strengthening her capacity to implement clinical research, and building on her qualitative and quantitative skills for epidemiological and public health research.