Stephanie Budge
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Faculty Director, AHEAD Program, Collaborative Center for Health Equity
Email: budge@wisc.edu
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Collaborative Center for Health Equity

Dr. Stephanie Budge is the faculty director of the Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) mentored professional development program. In this role, she leads the development of a ‘community of scholarship’ in which research career development and networking opportunities for early to mid-career scholars reflect:
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- Structured opportunities to acquire familiarity about health equity research occurring within and across programs affiliated with AHEAD;
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- Access to the research programs of UW faculty who share similar research interests;
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- Sharing successful strategies for advancing health equity research at UW-Madison; and
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- Mentoring in the areas of academia, tenure, and promotion.
Dr. Budge is a licensed psychologist and an associate professor with a primary affiliation to the Department of Counseling Psychology. Her primary research interests include working with LGBTQ populations–specifically transgender individuals’ emotional and coping processes and their experiences of psychotherapy. She also focuses on psychotherapy process and outcome research, primarily regarding therapist effects and effectiveness of interventions.
To learn more about Dr. Budge, please see her research lab biography.