Dr. Ethan Mereish is an Associate Professor and the director of the Lavender Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He's also an Adjunct Associate Professor at American University and Brown University. He completed his doctoral training at Boston College, a clinical psychology residency at Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University. His NIH-funded research program focuses on understanding the effects of social, psychological, and cultural determinants of suicide, substance use, and other health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and racial and ethnic minority youth and young adults as well as factors and interventions that promote their resilience. His work is community-engaged and leverages multiple methodologies, including experimental, experience sampling, and qualitative methods. His work is informed by intersectionality theory and has a grounded commitment to social justice and health equity. His current NIH-funded study examines the prospective and daily impact of intersectional oppression-based stressors (e.g., discrimination, microaggressions) and structural oppression (e.g., structural racism and heterosexism) on substance use and mental health of LGBTQ youth of color.

Dr. Mereish hopes to recruit a clinical psychology doctoral student for the 2025-2026 academic year.