Riana Elyse Anderson PhD

Riana is an Assistant Professor in the Health Behaviors & Health Education Department in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship addresses culturally specific parenting practices to reduce race-related stress in families. She earned her doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and was a Clinical and Community Psychology Predoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s School of Medicine. She was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Dr. Anderson graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006 with a degree in Psychology and Political Science and taught for 2 years with Teach For America in Atlanta, GA. She has also conducted Community Based Participatory Research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and neuropsychological research at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.