Dr. Jaleah Rutledge is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program at the Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. Dr. Rutledge obtained her PhD in Ecological-Community Psychology from Michigan State University. She is also a proud alumna of Tuskegee University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.

Her program of research focuses on racial health disparities, health equity, and health promotion among marginalized populations. More specifically, she is interested in understanding and utilizing strengths-based approaches for the promotion and protection of Black women’s sexual and reproductive health. Her scholarly contributions have been published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, AIDS and Behavior, and the American Journal of Community Psychology.  Her work has also been selected for oral and poster presentations at international and national conferences. She has several papers under review and in preparation regarding the well-being of Black women and girls.

Throughout her graduate school matriculation, Dr. Rutledge maintained a strong commitment to campus involvement as the graduate student member of the College of Social Science Dean’s Advisory Board on Diversity and Inclusion, a Graduate Leadership Fellow for the College of Social Science, steering committee member of the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate and leader in MSU’s Black Graduate Student Association. She has received several awards for her unwavering commitment to servant leadership including the Graduate Student Leader of the Year Award as well as the Bob and Bets Caldwell Land-Grant Values Award. In addition, Dr. Rutledge has also been successful at securing prestigious research funding. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Psi Chi, and The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.  Click here to visit Dr. Rutledge’s personal website.