Evans Family Assistant Professor of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University
About
Sasha A. Fleary, PhD, is the Evans Family assistant professor in child study and human development at Tufts University. She is also the founder and director of the Child Health Equity Research Lab in the Eliot-Pearson of Child Study and Human Development. She is a pediatric psychologist with expertise in adolescent development, child and adolescent psychology, preventive health, and health disparities. Her research focuses on empowering parents, adolescents, and children to engage in healthful behaviors through interventions, programming, and outreach responsive to the risk and protective factors for health disparities in underserved groups. She is particularly interested in the role of multiple facets of health literacy in chronic disease prevention and community organization around health.
Current Work:
Dr. Fleary's current research projects include measurement development for adolescents' health literacy, measurement development for adults' mental health literacy, a critical literacy intervention to promote health in middle-schoolers, an evaluation of an intervention to improve physical and mental health-being in Asian-American adolescent girls, and a parent health literacy intervention to promote preventive health in underserved families with young children. Future projects include adolescent health literacy interventions and mental health literacy interventions to address help-seeking in underserved families.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Children and families, health disparities, preventive health, health literacy, community-engaged research
