Henry A. Willis, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, originally from Jackson, Mississippi, and he received his PhD from the Clinical Psychology program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Willis is a faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2023. He is the creator and director of the Cultural Resilience, Equity, and Technology (CREATE) Research Lab at UMD College Park. His program of research includes exploring the relationship between online and offline racial discrimination and mental health outcomes among African American youth and young adults, understanding sociocultural protective factors (i.e., racial identity) and how they impact psychopathology within African Americans, creating cultural adaptations of evidence-based treatments, and utilizing mobile-health technologies to increase access to mental health treatments for underserved populations.
