Sonja Schoenwald

Sonja Schoenwald, PhD, is an advisor to the Adolescents and Wellness Initiative in the Social Media Lab and Technology Impact and Policy Center. She is a clinical and implementation scientist whose career has focused on developing clinically and cost-effective family and community-based mental health treatments for youth, and on effective strategies supporting the implementation and scaling of these effective treatments nationally and internationally. Sonja is a Senior Research Scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center and co-founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Implementation Research and Practice. She was previously Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she was associate director of a research center and co-founder of a university-licensed technology transfer company. She was a Stanford Distinguished Career Institute fellow in 2023 and Continuing Fellow in 2024.