Emma K. (stokes) Stapp PhD

Emma K. Stapp, Ph.D., is a Psychiatric Epidemiologist who received her Ph.D. and MHS in Public Mental Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and BA in Psychology from Penn State University. Her main research interests are the interplay of biological and environmental risk and protective factors in the causes, correlates, and consequences of mood spectrum disorders; and, the intersection of mental and physical health, especially as it relates to stress, health risk behaviors, and chronic disease. Dr. Stapp has a long-range interest in translating research findings to maximize healthy behaviors and environments, particularly in the psychiatric high-risk context. Dr. Stapp works across all of Dr. Merikangas' research programs, including the NIMH Family Study, population science, and biorhythms, and reactivity. Dr. Stapp joined GEB-SDGE in 2017.