معرفی
Skyler Jackson, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at Yale School of Public Health. His NIH-funded research programme integrates psychology, public-health, and data-science methods to examine how intersecting racial, gender, and sexual-orientation identities shape stigma stress and downstream mental-health and HIV disparities. He directs micro-longitudinal, experimental, and qualitative studies of “border-identity stress” among bisexual, multiracial, and non-binary populations and develops culturally attuned, LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioural interventions.
Education:
- PhD, Psychology, University of Maryland, 2018
- BA, Psychology, Stanford University, 2005
Research Interests:
Jackson’s work centres on intersectional stigma, minority stress, and resilience among multiply marginalised communities. He uses mixed-methods and daily-diary designs to capture moment-to-moment stigma processes and pilots scalable CBT-based interventions to reduce mental-health and HIV-risk outcomes among LGBTQ+ people of colour.
Recent Publication Trends:
Across 2020-2025 his output advances three inter-related strands: (1) elucidating intersectional stigma mechanisms affecting Black LGBQ and transgender populations; (2) developing and pilot-testing affirmative, coping-skills interventions to mitigate these stressors; and (3) innovating methodological safeguards (e.g., bot detection) for high-quality online psychological research.
Honours & Awards:
- Award for Yale Research Excellence (Finalist), 2023
- Social Justice Award, Society of Counseling Psychology, 2022
- Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2022
- APA Early Career Achievement Award, 2019
- APA Presidential Citation – Citizen Psychologist, 2018
Grants & Projects:
Jackson is principal investigator on an NIMH K01 Career Development Award (1K01MH122316-01A1) testing an intersectional stigma-reduction and HIV-prevention intervention for gay and bisexual men of colour. A 2023 $4 million Yale grant supports implementation of a new LGBTQ mental-health therapy across 90 US community centres.
Affiliations & Advising:
He holds a primary appointment in Social and Behavioral Sciences and is affiliated with the Janeway Society and the LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative at Yale. He mentors graduate students and post-doctoral associates in psychology, public-health, and data-science tracks.
