Dr. Marta Elliott is a sociologist and a professor who studies and writes about health and wellbeing from a sociological perspective. She completed her PhD in sociology at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1996, where she serves as department chair.

Her research is widely published in social science journals and she has recently edited a volume of 27 chapters on society and mental health. Currently, she studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, explanatory models of mental illness and stigma, and the curious co-morbidity between bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. She lives in Reno, Nevada near the border with California in the United States.