Lindsay Sheehan

Lindsay Sheehan, PhD, is Senior Research Associate at the Chicago Health Disparities Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She was project manager for a recently completed PCORI-funded Eugene Washington Engagement award on community-based participatory research (CBPR) for African Americans with serious mental illness. On this project, Dr. Sheehan worked with a community advisory board to develop a CBPR curriculum and train community members in CBPR. Dr. Sheehan has also used the CBPR approach to study the stigma of suicide and has contributed to several funded CBPR projects on peer navigator programs for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

December 2016