Cindy Veldhuis, PhD

School of Nursing, Columbia University

Dr. Cindy Veldhuis (pronounced Veld-hice), an NIH/NIAAA Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University’s School of Nursing, received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016, and completed her masters (Cognitive Psychology) and bachelors (double major: Theater and Psychology) at the University of Oregon. Dr. Veldhuis has two main lines of research. The first line focuses on the effects of the 2016 presidential election and other political events on LGBTQ individuals. The second line of research, funded by an NIH Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32), focuses the role of intimate relationships in sexual minority women’s alcohol use, and the intersections between sexual identity and race/ethnicity. Dr. Veldhuis also recently received pilot funding to fund her SOQIR (Study on Queer Intimate Relationships) study, which focuses on the health and well-being of same-sex female couples in the New York City area.

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