Hillary Kapa, MPH is a Clinical Research Associate for the Center for Violence Prevention. She currently works on several projects associated with Violence Intervention Program, which aims to promote healing and prevent future harm for patients who have experienced interpersonal violence. Hillary’s roles include managing program and research data, coordinating research studies, and maintaining compliance with regulatory bodies.

Previously, Hillary was a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital where she worked on studies related to the psychosocial impact of medical conditions and their associated treatments on children and young adults.

Hillary is broadly interested in studying adolescent health from an asset-based approach, having been motivated to pursue a career in public health after working briefly as a high school English teacher. Her MPH culminating project examined the protective role of parent-child connectedness on sexual health outcomes of housing-insecure adolescents.