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Danya K. Krueger

Ph.D. Student
Graduate Research Assistant

Contact

Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building

325 Pittsboro Street

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

dkrueger@unc.edu

Danya K. Krueger, MSW, MBA is a third-year PhD student in the School of Social Work. She is graduate research assistant with the UNC Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center (UNC-BHWRC) and the Carolina Seminar on Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice. She earned a Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration from Boise State University. Prior to doctoral studies, Danya served as lead research associate at Boise State University School of Social Work in collaboration with the State of Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. She has also worked as a licensed mental health professional in University Health Services at Boise State University and as an adjunct instructor at the College of Western Idaho. Danya is a burgeoning health workforce researcher, focusing on the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) workforce providing care in a post-Dobbs era, developing improved psychometric instrumentation for this workforce, and delivering tailored interventions that prioritize the wellbeing, resilience, safety, and retention for the health workforce. She enjoys adventuring with her life partner and two Airedale Terriers when she is not studying.

Degrees and Licenses

MSW, The Ohio State University
MBA, Boise State University
Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boise State University (BSU)

Research and Professional Interests

Sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice
Wellbeing, resilience, safety, and retention of U.S. reproductive workforce in a post-Dobbs era
Measurement development and validation to assess biopsychosocial functioning and perceived professional quality of life among health workforce providing care to politicized patient populations