Teresa K. O’LearyPhD

Dr. Teresa K. O’Leary is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biostatistics Department (Health Informatics Division) at the Yale School of Public Health. Before graduate school, Dr. O’Leary held various roles in the healthcare industry, both in direct care and research positions, including as a mental health case manager and human rights advocate.

Dr. O’Leary earned her interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Personal Health Informatics from Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences. As a qualitative researcher, she takes a socioecological approach to her work, conducting in-depth fieldwork and utilizing an iterative design approach to design, build, and evaluate the impact of software tools on helping people manage their health.

Her dissertation focused on the co-design and evaluation of a smartphone-based mental health promotion intervention to enhance readiness for professional mental health treatment in church-affiliated Black adults.