Kortney Wilcher

PhD Student
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, United States

Kortney Wilcher is a Community Health doctoral student. Her primary research interests include life course transitions, the design of health behavior interventions, and community-based participatory research. Her work aims to advance practice, service delivery, and research across diverse populations, with a particular emphasis on military veterans, marginalized communities, and individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions. She currently contributes to research that examines student veteran well-being during transitions to higher education and the workforce, rural veterans' access to and utilization of services, and factors influencing veteran suicide risk and prevention.

Presentation(s):

• Insights from a Scoping Review of Machine Learning Models Predicting Suicide in Military and Veteran Populations 4219

  Tuesday, October 28, 2025
  1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  

• Investigation of Need, Utilization, and Capacity to Acquire Services Among Rural Veterans 1846

  Tuesday, October 28, 2025
  5:00 PM - 5:15 PM