Eboneé T. Johnson, Ph.D.

Biography

Eboneé T. Johnson, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of community and behavioral health in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa. Dr. Johnson received graduate training in the fields of rehabilitation counseling and rehabilitation psychology prior to entering academia as a counselor educator providing clinical training and supervision to rehabilitation, school, and clinical mental health counselors across three institutions (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Southern University and A&M College, and The University of Iowa).

 
After nearly 10 years, this training and work experience sparked a passion to adopt a more community-engaged and participatory-action approach to addressing mental health outside traditional clinical settings to influence the social drivers and determinants of mental health. 

 
Now, approaching nearly 5 years as a public health scholar, Dr. Johnson has received funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and National Alliance on Mental Illness to support implementation and evaluation of community-level interventions.  She enjoys training over 100 students yearly on the social and psychological determinants of health, providing training and capacity building to community-based organizations, and serving as a mentor to undergraduate and graduate students across the fields of counselor education, social work, counseling psychology, and public health.