Mayte Restrepo-Ruiz

Assistant Professor

Dr. Restrepo is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences. She received her doctoral degree in Public Health in 2021 from UConn. She is a mixed-methods researcher whose primary goal is to work with communities to develop violence prevention and mental health promotion strategies. Dr. Restrepo conducts research at the global and local levels. She studies the impact of armed conflicts on mental health and women’s risk for intimate partner violence.  At the local level, her research examines the disparities in exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and associated mental health outcomes based on gender, race-ethnicity, and sexual orientation. In partnership with CPES, Dr. Restrepo built a surveillance system for Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences in Connecticut using publicly available and administrative data sources. Dr. Restrepo is also the lead evaluator of the Partnership for Success 2022-2027 initiative. ​Dr. Restrepo’s goal is to advance her research in preventing adverse experiences in childhood by focusing on factors that have been found to promote positive health outcomes despite adversity.