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PhD Students

PhD Candidates

PhD Students

Recent PhD Graduates

• Phylicia Allen

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• African American adolescents; internal, external- and neighborhood assets; educational trajectory; K-12 education structure

• Enoch Azasu

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• Mental health, suicide prevention

• Flora Cohen

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• Global mental health and psychosocial support, humanitarian settings, implementation science in low resource settings, and community-based interventions

• Darejan Dvalishvili

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• Child maltreatment and Child Welfare; Gender-Based Violence, Child Poverty, Economic Strengthening Interventions, Global Child Protection

• Maria Gandarilla Ocampo

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• Child maltreatment epidemiology and child welfare policy; well-being across the life span; Group work and interdisciplinary teamwork

• Eleni Gaveras

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• Homelessness, homelessness among veterans, serious mental illness with a focus on serious symptoms of PTSD, stigma, LGBT veterans, and mental health service delivery global and domestic settings

• Mark Hawes

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• Health and healthcare inequities impacting adults with serious mental illness (SMI); community integration of adults with SMI; implementation science

• Dominique Horton

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• African American families, education equity and outcomes, education policy, mental health interventions, racism and poverty

• Ashley Jackson

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• Police Violence, Racial & Legal Socialization, Mental Health, Mixed-Methods Research

• Kakada Kuy

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• Social policy on aging, intersections of technology and aging, and impacts of Asian family breakdown, labor immigration and past traumatic experiences on well-beings of older adults

• Kyle Pitzer

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• Urban poverty; neighborhood effects; community development

• Christopher Weatherly

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• Climate Change and Mental Health; Rural Mental Health; Participatory and Community-Based Research; Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

• Yingying Zeng

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• Poverty, asset building policy and community development

• Jihye Baek

• PhD in Social Work
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• Aging in place; Social and health service integration; Housing and Neighborhood; Service coordination; Socioeconomically marginalized older adults; Technology in Aging

• Dennis W. Boyd Jr.

• PhD in Social Work
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• African American mother-son dyad & school success for AFAM & Latinx youth

• Kyria Brown

• PhD in Social Work
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• Maternal child health equity; Street-involved women and pregnancy

• Jun-Hong Chen

• PhD in Social Work
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• Poverty prevention and alleviation; child and family well-being, inequality

• Jacquelyn Coats

• PhD in Social Work
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• mental and physical health disparities among Black Americans, racial discrimination, organizational climate, and religion as a protective factor

• Fithi Embaye

• PhD in Social Work
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• Early childhood education policy and intervention research, child welfare, global child mental health, child trauma and resilience study, school and community based interventions, social determinants of health, Africa, immigrants, refugees

• Cao Fang

• PhD in Social Work
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• Services for children and families impacted by MH; Autism spectrum

• Greg Gross

• PhD in Social Work
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• Social Determinants of Health; HIV prevention/intervention; Community-based Participatory Research

• Tzu-Hsin Huang

• PhD in Social Work
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• Youth development among minority and traumatized youth

• Xuan Huang

• PhD in Social Work
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• School bullying intervention, Violence prevention & Building resilience in children who experienced trauma

• Dylan Jones

• PhD in Social Work
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• Improving outcomes for children involved in child welfare and kinship care; Administrative data

• Christi Lero

• PhD in Social Work
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• Palliative, hospice and end-of-life care; dementia and dementia caregiving; death, dying, bereavement, grief, loss; death education, perceptions and practices; qualitative methods; narrative research

• Woodjerry Louis

• PhD in Social Work
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• Youth MH/Young men of color with a focus on EBP dev and implementation

• Kelley McCall

• PhD in Social Work
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• Subs Abuse/MH and AIAN health

• Molly McLay

• PhD in Social Work
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• Creative Gender-based violence; creative writing interventions; prevention education; trauma-focused therapies; social norms theory, especially around gender and sexuality; clinical practice; implementation science; intervention research; women’s issues

• Selina Miller Forsyth

• PhD in Social Work
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• Intervention and policy research for financial capability and asset building

• Josephine Nabayinda

• PhD in Social Work
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• Women’s global econ empower/microfinance

• Flavia Namuwonge

• PhD in Social Work
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• Children, adolescents/youth and families impacted by poverty, HIV/AIDS, and poor mental health functioning

• Jennifer Nattabi

• PhD in Social Work
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• Global child and adolescent well-being; Global policy

• Deidi Olaya Rodriguez

• PhD in Social Work
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• Interpersonal violence, gender, prevention, politics and institutional responses to sexual violence

• Soobin Park

• PhD in Social Work
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• Aging in place and cognitive impairment

• JaNiene Peoples

• PhD in Social Work
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• Mental health disparities; substance use; health behavior change; risk and resilience in adolescence and emerging adulthood; intervention research

• Nancy Pérez-Flores

• PhD in Social Work
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• Physical and mental health disparities among racial and ethnic communities, specifically the Latinx community

• Mustafa Rfat

• PhD in Social Work
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• Refugee youth well-being and disability-focus on Middle East

• Helen Robinson

• PhD in Social Work
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• Multi-systemic impacts of community-based intervention research, collective efficacy in communities of color, youth development in urban settings

• Emani Sargent

• PhD in Social Work
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• LGBTQ persons of color and health equity

• Katie Shires

• PhD in Social Work
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• Child maltreatment, adolescent development, intergenerational trauma & trauma-informed interventions

• Peter Sun

• PhD in Social Work
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• Productive engagement in later life, aging in place, minority aging

• Yadira Tejeda

• PhD in Social Work
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• Gender in child welfare; Latinx families

• Daniela Tuda

• PhD in Social Work
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• Evidence-based practice, mental health, implementation science

• Tysen Tyson

• PhD in Social Work
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• Social Justice and Health Disparities; LGBTQ+ Comorbidity (MH/SA) Recovery Models; Intervention Research; Evidence-Based Clinical Practice; Heterosexism and Racism; Intersectionality mixed-research methods

• Xinli (Sinko) Wang

• PhD in Social Work
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• Child Maltreatment Prevention; Program Evaluation and Intervention Research

• Wynette Whitegoat

• PhD in Social Work
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• AIAN positive parenting; educational success

• Yuanyuan Yang

• PhD in Social Work
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• Poverty policy; Asset-building; Evidenced-based mental health interventions

• Haotian Zheng

• PhD in Social Work
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• Financial security in retirement; policy and disparities; Global focus

• Sara Beeler-Stinn

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• William Byansi

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated

• Shih-Ying Cheng

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• Christina Drymon

• Research Scientist (Public Health) of NORC at the University of Chicago
• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2020

• LaShawnda Fields

• Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2020

• Carlos Andres Gallegos

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated

• Michael Galvin

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• Alexandra Morshed

• Research Project Manager, Prevention Research Center in St. Louis
• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2020

• Robert Motley

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• Erin Stringfellow

• Substance Abuse Research Scientist, Missouri Institute of Mental Health
• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2019

• Sicong Sun

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• Maya Williams

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated 2021

• Yiqi Zhu

• PhD in Social Work
• Graduated

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