Dominick Shattuck, Ph.D., is a community psychologist and public health researcher dedicated to improving the health and well-being of men and boys. He holds faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (OB-GYN Department) and the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of International Health).
Dr. Shattuck has spent more than two decades leading large-scale health and gender equity initiatives across the United States and globally. He has held leadership roles at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and FHI 360, including serving as director of monitoring, evaluation and learning for USAID’s Breakthrough ACTION project. In that role, he oversaw the design and evaluation of health-focused behavior change interventions in more than 40 countries.
His research takes a relational approach to men’s health and masculinity, with particular expertise in men’s health-seeking behaviors, reproductive health and mental health.
A former schoolteacher, Shattuck taught in Durham, North Carolina; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Kombolcha, Ethiopia; and his family’s parish school, St. Bernard’s Elementary in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.