Stephanie Grilo PhD

Stephanie Grilo, Ph.D., whose pronouns are she/her/hers, is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Grilo is a social scientist and public health researcher whose research area of interest focuses on adolescent health, globally and domestically, and emphasizes the need for taking a resiliency approach to improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations.

This includes work on understanding multiracial identity formation and its influence on health outcomes, adolescent preventive services, comprehensive sexual health education and its role in preventing sexual assault, pregnancy outcomes for young women of color, as well as global research on fertility decision-making in areas of high HIV prevalence. Dr. Grilo co-teaches Qualitative Methods in the Core Curriculum as well as in Population and Family Health. Dr. Grilo is also the co-founder of MOSAIC (Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community) a faculty and student mentorship community for first-generation and students of color in the Department.