Victoria O’Keefe, PhD, MS

Mathuram Santosham Chair in Native American Health and Assistant Professor · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · company speakers →

Victoria O’Keefe is a member of the Cherokee and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma. At Johns Hopkins University, she is the inaugural Mathuram Santosham Chair in Native American Health, an Assistant Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of International Health (Social and Behavioral Interventions Program), and an Associate Director at the Center for Indigenous Health. Dr. O’Keefe was appointed to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017, becoming the first-ever Native American tenure-track professor in the Bloomberg School’s history. Her community-based participatory research with Native communities focuses on strengths-based and culturally-informed suicide prevention, mental health promotion, and wellness. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University and completed her clinical internship at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System – Seattle Division, both in 2016. In 2020, Victoria was honored by her tribal nation with a Cherokee Nation Community Leadership Individual Award. She has a life-long passion for working with tribal and urban Native communities inspired by Cherokee community values instilled by her late grandmother who was a Cherokee Nation community health representative (CHR).

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