Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D.

Associate Director

UCLA/Duke University National Center Child Traumatic Stress

Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, serves as the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Network Relations and the Co-Director of Data and Evaluation Program for the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. She also serves as the Director of Research for the Center for Child and Family Health and is President for the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children APSAC). She is a clinical/community psychologist, Associate Professor with tenure, and Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Science, Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Briggs-King's professional expertise focuses on implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of evidence-based treatments; child traumatic stress; resiliency; mental health disparities and inequities, quality improvement, and increasing access to care for underserved youth/adolescents.