Nadine Kaslow PhD, ABPP, Principal Investigator
Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP is a Professor; Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Chief Psychologist; and Director of the Atlanta Trauma Alliance and the Nia Project, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Grady Health System (GHS). She is the Past President of the American Psychological Association (APA). With regard to global health, she received an Emory University School of Medicine I3 Education Award for a project entitled Emory Addis Ababa Education Innovation Community of Practice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she received a contract from the United States Department of State Speaker Program to provide presentations on mental health resilience during the pandemic for healthcare workers and the general population throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Humama Khan, PhD, Program Coordinator
Humama Khan, PhD is a postdoctoral resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on the lived experiences and well-being of minority, diverse and underserved communities along with global health. Previously, she was the research program coordinator at the Armstrong Institute with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where her projects focused on patient safety, teamwork, and simulation-based training. Humama received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2020, where her dissertation focused on the experiences of Black Muslim women.
Cari Jo Clark, ScD, Investigator
Cari Jo Clark, ScD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Rollins School of Public Health. Her research is focused on the health effects of exposure to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, the measurement of violence and its associated norms, and the design and evaluation of primary and secondary prevention strategies.
Benyam Dubale, MD, Investigator
Benyam Worku Dubale, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University (AAU) and Clinical Fellow, Division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. He is Past Head of Department of Psychiatry at AAU. He has worked with United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other partners as mental health consultant with expertise in psychological trauma and mental health needs in post-conflict areas. He has published on global mental health. Currently, he is leading the development of training programs at AAU that address the impact of psychological trauma and mental health needs of vulnerable populations in East Africa. He was co-investigator of Emory Addis Ababa Education Innovation Community of Practice. He is also a co-investigator on the Nigat Project: Assessing Mental Health Needs of Ethiopian Immigrants in Atlanta.
Elsa Friis-Healy, PhD, Investigator
Elsa Friis-Healy, PhD, MSc-GH, is the Multi-Health Systems/Conner’s Fellow in Digital Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the utilization of digital health strategies to support child mental health and reduce health disparities in global underserved contexts. She received her Master's in Global Health in 2014, and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke University in 2020 during which she helped develop and evaluate a culturally grounded family therapy intervention in Kenya. She completed her doctoral internship at Emory University School of Medicine and is currently developing reciprocal innovation projects to support the application of innovative approaches for mental health care developed in low-income countries to under-reached populations in the United States.
Betsy Gard, PhD, Investigator
Betsy Gard, PhD, Adjunct Professor in the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is Past President and Fellow of the Georgia Psychological Association and a Board Member of the Georgia Psychological Foundation. She has consulted to the International Rescue Committee and responded to many national and international disasters with the Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been a resource to the Georgia Nurse Association and the Interdivisional Task Forces for First Line Responders and Refugee and Immigrants. She has been a frequent lecturer to students at the Emory School of Public Health and a reviewer for journals studying the adjustment of refugees and immigrants to living in the US.
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, Investigator
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Sociology and Global Health at Emory University, is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Dr. Hall-Clifford has conducted fieldwork in the central highlands of Guatemala on the delivery of health services. Her research areas include accessible health care for marginalized populations, health systems strengthening in post-genocide contexts, and global health fieldwork ethics. She has held medical anthropology research positions at Oxford University, Harvard University, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Hall-Clifford is Director of the NAPA-OT Field School in Guatemala and Co-Founder of safe+natal.
Dan Hoke, Investigator
Dan Hoke is the Information Technology Director for the Brain Health Center and the Emory Orthopedics and Spine Center. He has over 20 years of experience at Emory University designing, implementing, and supporting technology solutions to facilitate data collection and analysis. Dan is a student at Emory's Rollins School for Public Health in the Applied Public Health Informatics track.
Erica Marshall-Lee, PhD
Erica Marshall-Lee, PhD is Assistant Professor and Assistant Vice Chair for Faculty Development – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and Clinical Director and the primary supervisor for the Adult Outpatient Program, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Clinic at Grady Health System. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi. Her major interests are in the areas of serious and persistent mental health concerns, personality disorders, marginalized community mental and physical health disparities, education and training, and social justice advocacy informed mental and physical health
Obsinet Merid, MD, Investigator
Obsinet Merid, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and a board-certified internal medicine physician who works at Grady Memorial Hospital. She received her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin and completed her internal medicine residency at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory University, she was a faculty member in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan. In addition to her passion for clinical medicine, she values serving the underserved patient population; educating and mentoring medical students; engaging in philanthropic work; and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Merid is an active member of American College of Physicians and Society of Hospital Medicine.
Arshed Ali Quyyumi, MD, Investigator
Arshe Ali Quyyumi, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Director at Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute. holds the Bruce Logue Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research. Board certified in Cardiology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Medicine, before coming to Emory, he was a Senior Investigator and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Cardiology Branch of the National Institutes of Health. He conducts clinical and translational research in vascular biology, progenitor cells and angiogenesis, biomarkers and cardiovascular omics, as well as clinical trials with bone marrow derived stem cells and progenitors in cardiovascular disease.
Luisa Maria Rivera, MPH
Luisa Maria Rivera MPH is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Emory University. Her research examines the ways traumatic experiences are embodied and transmitted across generations. She uses both ethnographic and biosocial approaches to understand how social adversity is embodied in communities affected by violence and oppression in Guatemala and the United States.
Martha Ward, MD, Investigator
Martha Ward, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, is Medical Director of Park Place Primary Care, a collaborative primary care clinic located in the Behavioral Health Outpatient center at Grady Memorial Hospital. Passionate about undergraduate medical education, she provides faculty development to optimize the ability of faculty to support the wellbeing of medical trainees; and serves as Society Mentor and Small Group Advisor in the Osler Society, Assistant Course Director for the Essentials of Patient Care course, and Co-Chair of the Admissions Committee. She is also Associate Program Director for the Combined Internal-Medicine Psychiatry Residency at Emory and Director of the Global and Population Mental Health Track for the categorical Psychiatry Residency, as well as faculty for the Emory Global Health Residency Scholar’s Program and through this organization participates in ongoing collaboration with physicians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Shujing Zhang, MS, MPhil, Project Coordinator Elect
Shujing Zhang, MS, MPhil, is a psychology intern in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine. Her research centers around risk and protective factors of mental and physical health among populations from diverse backgrounds nationally and internationally, including with Chinese immigrants in the Greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Shujing received a master’s in counseling and mental health services and a master’s professional counseling from the University of Pennsylvania. During her time at Penn, she helped develop a culturally relevant program on positive psychology education in China which helped teachers recognize and capitalize on adolescents’ resilience and strengths. She will begin her postdoctoral residency in health service psychology with an emphasis on global health at Emory University School of Medicine in fall 2021.