Kudrat Kadelu

Kudrat Kadelu is a Research Assistant with the Yale Consumer Health Informatics Lab (CHIL) and a senior Psychology major with a Public Health minor at Spelman College. Her research interests include mental health experiences among Black populations and maternal health disparities.

At CHIL, Kudrat has contributed to the WellSis Project by helping make the features culturally responsive for Black women, and to the IMHOTEP project, which involves analyzing the mental health impacts of social media use on younger populations. Additionally, through PerHL / Welcome Home, she is evaluating the importance of data transparency and functional language in digital tools for justice-impacted women. She also supported ECHORN by contributing to manuscript writing and development for a Caribbean mental health research initiative. Her long-term goals are to discover interventions that support minority populations.

Previously, Kudrat completed research at Spelman where she examined contextualized stressors in pregnant African American women, finding which stress mediators influenced depressive symptoms among the population. Additionally, she explored how Adverse Childhood Experiences lead to mental health struggles and imprisonment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is now also completing her senior thesis at Spelman, examining the moderating roles of mindfulness and self-compassion against gendered racial microaggressions and depressive symptoms in Black women.