Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Darlynn M. Rojo-Wissar, Ph.D., M.P.H. graduated with a B.A. in psychology and M.P.H. in maternal and child health from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in mental health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Wissar studies early life adversity, parent-child bonding, sleep, and health across the lifespan. She came to the Alpert Medical School of Brown University for postdoctoral fellowship within the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) T32. She has received exceptional mentorship from Dr. Stephanie Parade on early life stress and its consequences for young children’s health and community-based interventions to support families with young children, and from Dr. Mary Carskadon on pediatric sleep and rhythms. She is currently a research scientist at E.P. Bradley Hospital leading 1) a project developing and implementing a digital intervention to support sleep among preschoolers in foster care, and 2) a project involving secondary data analysis of individuals from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health study who were in foster care to examine prospective associations between parent-child relationship quality and sleep, and sleep and health (e.g., mental and physical health, inflammation).