Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD

Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, is Ronald Naito-John McAnulty Professor in Health Equity and Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs at Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health. She has an established research career conducting community-involved research, and has received many awards for her community partnership efforts. She has considerable experience designing and implementing preventive interventions and has developed culturally competent, efficacious HIV interventions for delinquent adolescents, runaway/homeless youth, youth living with HIV, and young MSM, including developing interventions for delivery via technology (e.g., computers, websites, mobile phone, video games). She is particularly interested in developing cost-effective interventions that are easily translatable with utility in community settings and utilizes new technologies to engage disenfranchised individuals in health promotion activities. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Prevention Science, and JAIDS, among other publications. She has also conducted psychotherapy with predominately African American and Latino adolescents, adults, and families affected by HIV.