Researcher

Dr. Isha Metzger is a licensed clinical psychologist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, and Affiliate Research Faculty in the School of Public Health at Yale University. Dr. Metzger’s research focuses on improving evidence-based treatments by understanding risk factors, like racial discrimination, and resilience factors, like racial socialization, that affect Black youth. Dr. Metzger's work leverages community-based participatory methods, and she is also engaged in translational research including the conceptualization, implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of culturally-specific prevention programming aimed at reducing mental health and health disparities among Black and ethnically minoritized youth.

Dr. Metzger earned her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina and completed an APA-accredited internship at the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale University’s School of Public Health. Dr. Metzger is a first-generation American from Atlanta by way of Sierra Leone, West Africa.