Ariadna Capasso, PhD
Health Resources in Action - Director of Research and Evaluation
Email: acapasso@hria.org
Education
PhD, Public Health, NYU School of Global Public HealthMFA, Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder
BA, Arts and Psychology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
BIO
Ariadna Capasso is Director of Research and Evaluation at Health Resources in Action, where she oversees a large portfolio of community assessments and evaluations, including in the fields of perinatal substance use and in the intersection of violence and substance use.Dr. Capasso has over fifteen years of experience providing technical support to United Nations agencies, such as the United Nations Population Fund and the Pan American Health Organization. She was a senior technical advisor at Management Sciences for Health, where she provided strategic leadership and managed a wide range of sexual and reproductive health projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Capasso’s research focuses on the adaptation of the Theory of Gender and Power to predict problem alcohol use among Black and Latina women and on the intersection of alcohol use, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health among women of color. In 2018, Dr. Capasso was a fellow of the NIDA-funded Substance Abuse Research Education & Training (SARET) at the NYU School of Medicine and was a recipient of a National Hispanic Health Foundation (NHHF) Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship. In 2021, she was a Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research predoctoral fellow at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. In 2022, Dr. Capasso received a PhD in Public Health from New York University School of Global Public Health. Dr. Capasso is a member of the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Publications
Recent
Capasso A, Pahl K, Tozan Y, DiClemente RJ (2025).
Social and psychological mediators of sexual and physical male-perpetrated intimate partner violence against young African American women: The role of alcohol use and drinking context
Journal of Interpersonal Violence [Epub 2025 May 8]. doi: 10.1177/08862605251333428.
Social and psychological mediators of sexual and physical male-perpetrated intimate partner violence against young African American women: The role of alcohol use and drinking context
Journal of Interpersonal Violence [Epub 2025 May 8]. doi: 10.1177/08862605251333428.
Capasso A, Tozan Y, DiClemente RJ, Pahl K (2025).
Trajectories of physical violence against Latinas and Black women: The protective role of parents, neighborhoods, and schools
Violence Against Women [Epub 2025 Feb 17]. doi: 10.1177/10778012251319752.
Trajectories of physical violence against Latinas and Black women: The protective role of parents, neighborhoods, and schools
Violence Against Women [Epub 2025 Feb 17]. doi: 10.1177/10778012251319752.
Capasso A, Tozan Y, DiClemente RJ, Pahl K (2024).
Childhood violence, high school academic environment, and adult alcohol use among Latinas and Black women: A structural equation modeling study
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39 (23-24), 4924-4953. doi: 10.1177/08862605241243372. PMCID: PMC11619925.
Childhood violence, high school academic environment, and adult alcohol use among Latinas and Black women: A structural equation modeling study
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39 (23-24), 4924-4953. doi: 10.1177/08862605241243372. PMCID: PMC11619925.
Xu MA, Choi J, Capasso A, DiClemente RJ (2024).
Improving HPV vaccination uptake among adolescents in low resource settings: Sociocultural and socioeconomic barriers and facilitators
Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 15, 73-82. doi: 10.2147/AHMT.S394119. PMCID: PMC11296371.
Improving HPV vaccination uptake among adolescents in low resource settings: Sociocultural and socioeconomic barriers and facilitators
Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 15, 73-82. doi: 10.2147/AHMT.S394119. PMCID: PMC11296371.
Rushwan S, Skipalska H, Capasso A, Navario P, Castillo T (2024).
Understanding domestic violence among older women in Ukraine: A secondary analysis using gender-based violence screening data
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39 (7-8), 1760-1784. doi: 10.1177/08862605231214594.
Understanding domestic violence among older women in Ukraine: A secondary analysis using gender-based violence screening data
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39 (7-8), 1760-1784. doi: 10.1177/08862605231214594.
Notable
Factors associated with experiencing sexual violence among female gender-based violence survivors in conflict-afflicted eastern Ukraine
BMC Public Health, 21 (1), 789. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10830-9. PMCID: PMC8067375.
Capasso A, Jones AM, Ali SH, Foreman J, Tozan Y, DiClemente RJ (2021).
Increased alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic: The effect of mental health and age in a cross-sectional sample of social media users in the U.S.
Preventive Medicine, 145, 106422. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106422.
Capasso A, DiClemente RJ, Wingood GM (2019).
Pregnancy coercion as a risk factor for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among young African American women
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 82 Suppl 2, S155-S161. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002174. PMCID: PMC6820702.
Ms. Capasso's Google Scholar Profile