Rebecca S. Hock is a psychiatric epidemiologist and global mental health researcher whose work focuses on prevention-oriented approaches to youth mental health, particularly among children and families facing adversity. Her research examines how early adversity and broader social conditions relate to mental health risk and resilience, with particular attention to culturally responsive and contextually grounded models in underserved populations.

Her recent work has extended dominant frameworks of intergenerational trauma to be more culturally- and contextually-inclusive and has contributed to the development and evaluation of preventive interventions aimed at reducing mental health risk among youth. Methodologically, her work draws on epidemiologic approaches, longitudinal data, and applied prevention science.

Rebecca received her B.A. in Science in Society, with concentrations in Neuroscience and Philosophy, from Wesleyan University, and her Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology and global mental health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where she later served as faculty, before joining Duke Kunshan University.