Faculty

Kathryn Macapagal, PhD
Principal Investigator
Kathryn Macapagal, PhD directs the Teen Health Lab and is an associate professor of medical social sciences and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University. Her work centers the perspectives of LGBTQ adolescents using community-engaged and user-centered design methods to ensure digital sex education and HIV/STI prevention efforts are guided by their needs and preferences.
Elizabeth Casline, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Liz Casline, PhD is a core faculty member of the Teen Health Lab and a research assistant professor in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University. Her research interests surround improving sexual and mental health care for sexual and gender minority youth through the use of dissemination and implementation science methods.

Staff

Juliet Allan
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Andrés Alvarado Avila
Research Project Manager

Zach Buehler
Research Project Coordinator

Ngoc Duong
Intern

Iago Durazzo Cejudo
Intern

James Foran
Research Study Coordinator

Will Liem
Doctoral Student

Julianna Lorenzo
Research Project Coordinator

Eva Minahan, MA
Senior Research Study Coordinator

Bryant Norton
Research Assistant

Mariajosé Paton, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

Kara Toll
Research Assistant

Luis Rubio
Research Study Assistant
Lab Alumni
- Conley Combs
- Libby Eggert
- Beatrice Gänzler, MSc
- Jacob Gordon, PhD
- Kyle Jozsa, MA
- Sarah Kamal
- Ashley Kraus, PhD
- Junye Ma, MA, MS
- Chris Owens, PhD
- Ayan Porwal
- Christiana Robbins, PhD
- Thomas Shen
- Val Wongsomboon, PhD
- Anna Yang
- Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD