Dr. Michele Cooley-Strickland is an award winning licensed psychologist, professor, researcher, wife, and mother. Dr. Michele is currently a Research Psychologist in the Center for Culture and Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David R. Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. She concurrently is an Associate Professor (now Adjunct) in the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Michele has been a psychologist, professor, and researcher for almost two decades, giving over 100 regional, national, and international presentations and publishing nearly 45 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and clinical psychology treatment intervention manuals. A partial list of her publications may be found here. Dr. Michele is a community-based clinical child researcher, preventive interventionist, and teacher. She has been the principal investigator of grants funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) designed to study the emotional and behavioral outcomes of youth’s exposure to community violence. Dr. Michele was formerly the principal investigator of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) R01 prospective cohort longitudinal study that investigates community violence as a risk factor for internalizing and externalizing behaviors, co-occurring substance use, and academic achievement problems, as well as protective factors that attenuate those adverse outcomes.
Mental Health, Anxiety disorders, community violence, prevention, child psychopathology, ethnic minorities.