Professor of Psychology

Courtenay Cavanaugh, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology– San Francisco, an APA-accredited program after completing an APA-accredited internship at Bellevue Hospital/New York University. Dr. Cavanaugh completed two postdoctoral fellowships, both of which were funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and focused on substance abuse prevention and drug dependence epidemiology, at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities. She joined the faculty at Rutgers University—Camden in 2010.

Dr. Cavanaugh’s research focuses on the impact of violence on women’s health including risk for psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, suicide, and HIV/STIs. She seeks to 1) inform, adapt, and implement interventions to improve the health of women affected by interpersonal violence, 2) improve trauma-related intervention implementation, dissemination, and sustainability, & 3) advance diversity and equity in psychological science.

Phone: 856-225-6120 Email: cocavana@camden.rutgers.edu