Nada Goodrum PhD

Dr. Nada Goodrum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina, in the Clinical-Community program. She is also affiliated with the UofSC Research Center for Child Well-Being, a multidisciplinary center focused on preventing physical and social-emotional health problems in children aged 2-10. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Georgia State University. She completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. Prior to her graduate training, she earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in psychology and international studies with a minor in Arabic.

Dr. Goodrum’s research investigates family- and community-level risk and protective factors for youth well-being among families affected by major stressors. Her work currently centers on the impact of family stressors, such as trauma, HIV and other chronic illness, racism, financial strain, and parental substance use, on child health and parent-child relationships. She is interested in parents’ role in promoting child and adolescent health and preventing the intergenerational transmission of risk. The goal of her research is to promote health equity by using knowledge about risk and protective factors to guide the development of family-based, trauma-informed prevention and intervention efforts. Her research is primarily conducted among communities of color, and she strives to adopt a multicultural, antiracist, and social justice lens in research.