Message from the Dean: DUSON Welcomes Stafford to Faculty

I am pleased to announce Allison Stafford, PhD, RN, will join DUSON’s faculty on July 1, 2020 and will be a member of the Healthcare of Women, Children and Families Division. Some of you may know Allison who is in her second year of a post doc at DUSON.

Dr. Stafford earned her BS in Nursing and PhD in Nursing Science from Indiana University. Her program of research is focused on promoting mental health equity among Latinx young people. Her postdoctoral research has been centered on identifying facilitators of and barriers to depression treatment use among Latinx adolescents and is funded by the Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Equity. She is also involved in Dr. Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda’s longitudinal study investigating the relationships between acculturation stress, resilience, and mental health among young adult Latinx immigrants.

Dr. Stafford was recently awarded a Bass Connections grant from Duke University to expand the work of Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda’s team and our understanding of how the U.S. immigration climate is influencing the mental health outcomes of Latinx immigrants in North Carolina.