~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Taylor Stevens is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Vanderbilt University and a clinical psychology resident at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Her research focuses on leveraging community-engaged approaches to develop and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing interpersonal and intimate partner violence among youth and young adults. She is particularly interested in identifying social and structural factors that contribute to disparities in violence exposure and outcomes.

She is the recipient of an NRSA F31 predoctoral training award, through which she applied a social ecological framework to examine risk and promotive factors associated with nonfatal firearm intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration across adolescence and adulthood. Her work seeks to inform prevention and policy strategies that are both contextually grounded and responsive to community needs.

She is interested in furthering her research by translating community-engaged findings into hospital-based interventions that support youth and young adults as they transition from acute care back into their communities following traumatic injury.