The New Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Public Health Practice at GPH.
Dr. LeConté J. Dill’s community-engaged research interests are focused on addressing health inequities and fostering protective factors among urban youth of color. Using qualitative and arts-based research methods, she examines the relationship between adolescent development and multiple levels of violence. Dr. Dill has a commitment toward transdisciplinary research, and her work has been published in such journals as the American Journal of Public Health, Health Education & Behavior, Journal of Adolescent Research, American Journal of Community Psychology, and Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. Guided by Black Feminist epistemologies, her recent scholarship documents urban Black girls’ strategies of resilience, safety, and wellness. Dr. Dill received the Highest Scoring Abstract Award from the Women’s Caucus at the 2016 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting for her abstract entitled ““What if I stay?”: Experiences of teen dating violence among urban African-American, West Indian, and Latinx girls.”
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Dill was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. Additionally, since 2015, she has been a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr. Dill earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Spelman College, a Master of Public Health degree in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Health Policy Leadership Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine.
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