Rhonda Conerly Holliday, PhD is a Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  She conducts research on HIV and substance use prevention, minority health issues and community-based participatory research.  She has focused on populations impacted by the criminal legal justice systems, both adolescents and adults. Dr. Holliday has served as the Principal Investigator for the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Prevention Research Center’s core research projects examining HIV prevention adolescents and emerging adults for the past ten years. Dr. Holliday is the Community Engagement Core Director for Center for Translational Research in Health Disparities at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Co-Director of the Community Liaison Core for the Deep South Research Center on Minority Aging Research, housed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also serves as the Co-Director of the Health Equity Scientific Working Group with the Emory Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Holliday is the Strategic Lead for the Communications and Dissemination Core with the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network, where she works with a team of partners and community members to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate health communications.

She has conducted research in the United States, South Africa, and Swaziland and her work has been funded by NIH, CDC and SAMSHA. In addition to her scholarly activities, Dr. Holliday is the chair of the Social and Behavioral Institutional Review Board at Morehouse School of Medicine, where she has worked to train lay community on human subjects research protection. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium for Criminal Justice Health, where she was a founding co-chair of the Racial and Social Justice Workgroup.  Dr. Holliday also serves as the co-chair for the Prevention Research Center’s Anti-Racism Workgroup, and she has previously served as a Health Equity Ambassador with the American Psychological Association.