Scholarly Interest
- Health education and promotion
- Intervention design
- Program evaluation
- Sexual health, especially sexuality education, sexually transmitted infections, and sexuality-related stigma
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Mixed methods research
- Public health workforce development
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
Much of her current work focuses on enhancing people's health through the design and evaluation of theory- and evidence-informed health promotion interventions, particularly in the areas of adolescent sexual health, workforce development, and most recently COVID-19. She is especially interested in the intersection between health education and behavior change, community-driven research, and using multiple methods of inquiry. Examples of Dr. Lederer's ongoing sexual health research include the multi-method evaluation of a curricular intervention intended to reduce sexual violence among college students, an assessment of facilitators and barriers to expedited partner therapy (EPT) acceptance for chlamydia among African American male adolescents in New Orleans, and a randomized controlled trial examining the impact of graphic images of sexually transmitted infections in sexuality education.
