Mary Mbaba

Dr. Mary Mbaba received her doctorate in Applied Social Psychology at the George Washington University in 2024 and is trained in understanding biases, stereotypes, attitudes, discrimination, social norms, and other social cognitions related to health-focused behaviors. Her professional specialization is on mental health and substance use, criminal justice involvement, sexual health and HIV prevention research. With over a decade of mixed methods research experience (since 2010), Mary’s work has ranged from interviewing and conducting research with opioid-dependent justice-involved individuals for a clinical Buprenorphine randomized control trial (RCT), to projects incorporating community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches focused on HIV prevention and understanding predecessors of mental health issues in Black adult men.