Team
Leslie Adams – Director
Leslie B. Adams, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Mental Health and Population Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, her PhD in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her MPH in Health Policy at Dartmouth. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, including NIMH and NIMHD, as well as PCORI, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Pediatrics and maintains faculty affiliations at Stanford’s Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, King Center for Global Development, Center for Digital Health, and The Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Her research focuses on suicide prevention and mental health among people of African descent and others pushed to the margins. She develops and tests adaptive digital approaches, smartphone-based research tools, and real-time methods that capture suicide risk in real-time. She is also the architect of the RECEIPTS framework, an integrated model of structural racism and suicide risk that centers the lived experiences of Black communities.
Her research has been published in JAMA Psychiatry, American Psychologist, JAMA Network Open, American Journal of Men’s Health, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Archives of Suicide Research, among others. It has been covered by USA Today, Forbes, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Kaiser Health News, and Science News, reaching audiences across research, policy, and the public.
Lynne Sneed – Clinical Research Coordinator
Lynne Sneed earned her B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and spent eight years working in product management within the technology industry. She now works as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the AMPLIFY Lab within the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Her research interests include mental health disparities and improving mental health outcomes in communities of color. Outside of work, she enjoys running marathons, CrossFit, yoga, and traveling.
Kevin Sun – Clinical Research Coordinator
Kevin Sun earned his M.S. in Epidemiology and Clinical Research from University of California, San Francisco and currently works as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the AMPLIFY Lab within the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. His research interests include mental health, health disparities, behavioral health, and the use of technology and AI in clinical research. Outside of work, he enjoys volleyball, scuba diving, and traveling.
Alanna Flowers
Summer Intern
Kailee Roberts
Summer Intern
Maya Mazin
Summer Intern
Rianna Mitra
Summer Intern
