Kaston Anderson-Carpenter, PhD

Kaston Anderson-Carpenter, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

E-Mail: kason@msu.edu

Kaston Anderson-Carpenter, PhD

Dr. Anderson-Carpenter is an Assistant Professor of Social and Personality Psychology. He obtained his PhD in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2014. 

His research focuses on the social determinants' of health. He serves as the director of the Advancing Community Empowerment and Social Justice (ACES) Laboratory, which is committed to promoting equity in underserved populations through theoretically grounded research and empirically driven action.

Research Focus
LGBTQIA+ veterans, drug use and misuse, health equity, underserved communities, incarceration, behavioral health associations, intersection of risk


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