Bio:
Asher graduated with honors from Rutgers University New Brunswick with a B.S. in Public Health and a minor in Psychology. As an undergraduate student, she worked as a research assistant for the ABUSA and REHAB labs at the Rutgers Addiction-Health Behavior Center where she assisted various studies that broadly spanned anxiety and substance use disorders. She also interned at the Children’s Specialized Hospital where she completed her senior project which evaluated the effectiveness of a novel, multidisciplinary program for diabetes control in pediatric patients. Asher also dedicated a majority of her undergraduate years to the Rutgers Undergraduate Research Journal (RURJ) for which she served as the Program Director, and published the cutting edge research conducted at the university to strengthen the undergraduate research community. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and she is determined to do work that helps others achieve their best physical and mental health outcomes through the integration of public health principles and psychological research.