Kelly Johnson
Research Scholar in Law
Kelly Johnson (she/her/hers) is a Research Scholar with the Youth Equity Science/YES Project at the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership. She also serves as the Health Equity Lead for the Connecticut State DPH COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program. She holds a DrPH from UC Berkeley, an MPH from Johns Hopkins, and an MA in counseling psychology from The Wright Institute. Dr. Johnson is a public health practitioner and qualitative researcher with over 18 years of experience. Her work has focused on increasing health equity among marginalized populations, both domestically and internationally. Her current research examines minority stress, resilience, and social support among trans and non-binary adolescents. Dr. Johnson completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University, where she coordinated the San Francisco site of Project AFFIRM, an NICHD-funded longitudinal, multi-site study of transgender development across the lifespan. She has worked on numerous HIV surveillance and malaria elimination projects targeting vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She is also a trained mental health clinician, with a focus on adolescents and young adults.