Christina Psaros, PhD

Christina Psaros, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the Associate Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital where she also co-leads the Qualitative Research Unit in the Division of Clinical Research. Her research has focused primarily on psychosocial aspects of HIV care and prevention for cisgender women both domestically and abroad, and men who have sex with men, with an emphasis on intervention development. She has led NIH funded studies in the United States (e.g., R34MH118044, R34AT009170) and South Africa (e.g., K23MH096651, R01MH112385), and developed the adherence intervention protocols for two major PrEP trials (HPTN083 and Partners PrEP). She has over 80 publications and is the first author on the Lifesteps for PrEP intervention manual, which is part of the CDC compendium of evidence-based interventions and best practices for HIV prevention. She provides mentorship to junior investigators, post-doctoral fellows, and other mentees/students around qualitative methods, intervention development, and behavioral science.