Stephani Louise Hatch is an American sociologist who is a psychiatric epidemiologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
[1] She was a graduate student at Georgia State University, where she studied women's pharmaceutical treatment challenges.
[2] She completed her doctoral research at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she continued her work on drug use in inner city women.
[8] HYPE looks to improve young people's access to community-based and online mental and physical health related information.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, HYPE expanded to evaluate how social distancing, isolation and ongoing lockdowns impacted the lives of young adults.