Mayte Restrepo
Research Area(s) of Interest:
Global Health and Early Childhood
Dr. Restrepo is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences. 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. Under her leadership, a surveillance infrastructure was developed to track Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences (ACEs and PCEs) in Connecticut youth (www.ctdata.org/ct-pace-portal). Her goal is to advance her research in preventing ACEs by focusing on factors that have been found to promote positive health outcomes despite adversity.
Dr. Restrepo is the evaluator for the lead evaluator on a SAMHSA and state-funded program designed to reduce alcohol use in adolescents. She has been the recipient of the UConn Human Rights Institute Dissertation Award, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Emerging Scholar Award (2020) and the NIH ORWH Policy Travel Award (2024). She received her master’s degree in international studies, MPH, and Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Connecticut.
