Antonia Caba completed her PhD in Fall 2024. She earned her bachelor’s degree in public health from Miami University in 2018 and her master’s in public health from Yale School of Public Health in 2020. In her time at UConn, Antonia worked on quantitative and qualitative research projects related to the determinants of health and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults. Under the mentorship of Dr. Ryan Watson, Antonia contributed to an NIH-funded, longitudinal study of Black and Latinx sexual minority men’s HIV prevention practices and a national survey of LGBTQ+ adolescents’ health and wellbeing in partnership with the Human Rights Campaign. Antonia’s dissertation focused on the role of social media and the internet in LGBTQ+ adolescents’ identity development.
Currently, Antonia is a Research Associate at the UConn School of Social Work, where she is a member of the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood-UConn School of Social Work Research Partnership. She supports the evaluation of state- and federally funded early childhood initiatives and systems in order to ensure access to high-quality early childhood care and education for Connecticut families.
Outside of work, Antonia can be found cooking, baking sourdough bread, hiking, working on embroidery projects, and exploring and traveling throughout New England and beyond!