Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Christi Lero
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Neuropalliative Care, Caregiving, End-of-Life Care, Grief & Bereavement, Bioethics

Lindsay Bendell
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Intersection of Social Work and Criminal Defense

Alicia Persaud
PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences | Areas of interest: Childhood Obesity, Eating Disorders, and Social Determinants of Health

Lena Schulhofer
PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences | Areas of interest: Intergenerational and Gendered Consequences of Trauma, Violence and Conflict

Shauntal Van Dreel
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Queer Adolescents Facing Issues of Belonging and Suicidality

Kayla Zebrowski
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Dissemination & Implementation Research, Youth Mental Health Services and Implementation Science Training and Resource Development, Telehealth Satisfaction, Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents, and Peer Support for OCD
Recent NIMH T32 Alumni
Still in Training

Katie Shires
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Child and adolescent mental health, child maltreatment, adolescent risk behaviors, trauma-informed care, intervention research

Eleni Gaveras
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Early psychosis intervention, stigma, social support, and improving quality of life outcomes for persons with serious mental illness both globally and in the US

Woodjerry Louis
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Adolescent Mental Health Services Research; Mental Health Policy; School-based Intervention/ Implementation, Black Adolescents Suicide; Black adolescents’ risk and protective factors

Kelley McCall
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: Adolescent and young adult American Indian and Alaska Native populations, culturally appropriate prevention, and intervention strategies for those with mental health illness, suicidal ideations and behaviors, and substance use disorders, harm reduction, healthcare system inequities, and climate change impacts on mental and physical health

Daniela Tuda
PhD Candidate in Social Work | Areas of interest: health disparities of racial and ethnic minorities living with serious mental illness, community mental health, adaptation of evidenced-based practices for marginalized communities
Graduated

Akilah Collins-Anderson
PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences | Areas of interest: Mental and behavioral health disparities, social determinants of health, chronic disease, health education, dissemination and implementation science

Hunter McGuire
PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences | Areas of interest: Social epidemiology, Intersectionality, Systems science, LGBTQ health, Eating disorders, Body image