Destiny Printz Pereira

destiny_printz_pereira@brown.edu

Destiny Printz Pereira, PhD, is a STAR T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Miriam Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. 

Dr. Printz Pereira’s research aims to promote wellbeing in children and families exposed to chronic and traumatic stress, in order to reduce the risk of psychopathology and adverse physical health across the lifespan. Her research primarily focuses on urban low-income, Black, and Latine parents and children, from pregnancy to prekindergarten. She utilizes translational methods to investigate intergenerational, transdiagnostic, and biopsychosocial mechanisms of risk and resilience. Her research advances trauma-related assessment and treatment by centering equity, accessibility, and sustainability.  

Dr. Printz Pereira earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Consortium at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System and UConn Health’s Parenting Program and Child Outpatient Clinic.