Elizabeth Benninger

Elizabeth Benninger specializes in community, child and health psychology. She obtained her master’s degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles and her doctoral degree in psychology from the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland State University Center for Urban Education.

Her research interests include the study of children’s well-being, health disparities, participatory research approaches and community health promotion. Her work additionally focuses on national and international collaborations with a number of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations which specifically focus on improving the well-being of children and families within communities experiencing high levels of poverty and violence. She is additionally an active member of the International Society of Child Indicators Research (ISCI), the Society for Community Research and Action, the Society for Prevention Research and the International Surf Therapy Organization (ISTO).