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Katelyn (Katy) Sileo, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor and the Laura Lee Mansfield Faculty Fellow at the Connell School of Nursing, and faculty in the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. Trained as a social and behavioral public health scientist, her research spans domestic and global settings to understand and intervene on multilevel determinants of health across the sexual, reproductive, and family life continuum.

Dr. Sileo utilizes community-engaged, mixed-methods research to design and evaluate behavioral and health system interventions. Her global work focuses on developing and testing gender-transformative strategies to improve HIV and sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Her emerging domestic research interests center on how modern structural stressors—including political and economic factors, social isolation, lack of community infrastructure, and technology overload—impact fertility actualization, parental mental health, and family well-being during critical life transitions.

Prior to joining Boston College, Dr. Sileo was on the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. in Global Public Health from the Joint Doctoral Program at San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego. Her pre- and post-doctoral training includes fellowships with NIDA, the NIH Fogarty International Center, and the Yale School of Public Health’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA).