A5062043939- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Disaster Response and Management
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Cuban History and Society
- Sex work and related issues
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
University of Miami
2015-2025
The Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development
2011-2022
Institute for Research and Development
2022
Université Paris Cité
2016
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
2016
Groupe Hospitalier Cochin - Port-Royal, Hôtel-Dieu, Broca - La Collégiale
2016
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2005-2015
Haitian American Association Against Cancer
2007
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
2007
Youth & Family Services
2006
Objectives. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Congressional Black Caucus, created a new initiative to address disproportionate ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis racial/ethnic minority populations. Methods. This included deploying technical assistance teams through Office Policy. introduced rapid assessment response methodologies trained communities their use. Results. first 3 eligible cities (Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia) focused assessments small geographic...
Globally, little evidence exists on sexual violence against boys. We sought to produce the first internationally comparable estimates of magnitude, characteristics, risk factors, and consequences boys in 3 diverse countries.We conducted nationally representative, multistage cluster Violence Against Children Surveys Haiti, Kenya, Cambodia among males aged 13 24 years. Differences between countries for experiencing (including touching, attempted sex, forced/coerced sex) before age 18 years...
Abstract This study explores community‐level risk and protective factors for youth violence in Cité Soleil, Port‐au‐Prince's most violent slum. The of Soleil have often been mobilized to by powerful actors as tools achieving political or financial gain. Drawing on a formal survey ( N =1,575) ethnographic data collected between March 2008 April 2009, we analyze the that contributed—and continue contribute—to making these available such mobilization. Youth frame their experiences terms broader...
This Disaster Health Briefing focuses on the work of an expanding team researchers that is exploring dynamics fear-related behaviors in situations mass threat. Fear-related are individual or collective and actions initiated response to fear reactions triggered by a perceived threat actual exposure potentially traumatizing event. Importantly, modulate future risk harm. case scenarios presented illustrate how operate when traumatic event threatens endangers physical and/or psychological...
This article examines disaster preparedness and community responses to Hurricane Matthew in semi-urban rural towns villages Grande-Anse, Haiti. Based on an ethnographic study conducted the department of Grande-Anse one week after hurricane made landfall Haiti, focuses perspectives citizens, community-based associations local authorities affected areas. Sixty-three (63) interviews 8 meetings (focus groups) were 11 impacted sites communes. Results suggest that preexisting conditions...
Para analisar o sistema familiar dos negros do Recôncavo da Bahia, Nordeste Brasil, é preciso compreender a construção cultural organização e das relações sociais, bem como as representações que sustentam. Este artigo começa com uma discussão categorias analíticas chave metodologias estrutural-funcionalistas, seus fundamentos teóricos socioculturais seu lugar nas análises práticas familiares de parentesco entre populações marginalizadas América Latina, particularmente Brasil. Em seguida,...
Abstract The 2010 Haiti earthquake was one of the most catastrophic episodes in history, leaving 5% nation’s population killed or injured, and 19% internally displaced. distinctive combination hazards vulnerabilities, extreme loss life, paralyzing damage to infrastructure, predicts population-wide psychological distress, debilitating psychopathology, pervasive traumatic grief. However, mental health not referenced national recovery plan. limited MHPSS services provided first eight months...
Adolescent girls and young women aged 13-24 years are disproportionately affected by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (1), resulting from biologic, behavioral, structural* factors, including violence. Girls also experience sexual violence at higher rates than do boys (2), who intimate partner have 1.3-2.0 times the odds of acquiring infection, compared with those not (3). Violence Against Children Youth Survey (VACS) data during 2007-2018 nine countries funded U.S. President's Emergency Plan for...
Abstract Introduction Few studies have focused on the mental health consequences of indirect exposure to disasters caused by naturally occurring hazards. The present study assessed 2010 earthquake in Haiti among Haitian-Americans now living Miami; these subjects had no direct earthquake, but retained their cultural identity, language, and connection family friends Haiti. Methods Two months following a sample was surveyed inquiring about: (1) psychological reactions quake; (2) types exposures...
Background. Hurricane Matthew was the most powerful tropical cyclone of 2016 Atlantic Basin season, bringing severe impacts to multiple nations including direct landfalls in Cuba, Haiti, Bahamas, and United States. However, Haiti experienced greatest loss life population disruption.Methods. An established trauma signature (TSIG) methodology used examine psychological consequences relation distinguishing features this event. TSIG analyses described exposures Haitian citizens unique...
ABSTRACT The Mw 7.2 Nippes, Haiti, earthquake occurred on 14 August 2021 in Haiti’s southwest peninsula and the midst of significant social, economic, political crises. A hybrid reconnaissance mission (i.e., combined remote field investigation) was coordinated to document damage built environment after event. This article evaluates two ground-motion records available Haiti context geology region known areas with damage, such as Les Cayes. We also present a new map time-averaged shear-wave...
ABSTRACT Analysis of cultural categories such as personhood, family, and community, the class relations they imply, highlights how blood symbolism is paradigmatic in production social political boundaries among Haitians. The principle that endows an individual or individual's family with a identity also functions exclusionary principle, allowing one to ritually, morally, physically destroy rivals name nation. Drawing from research conducted rural urban Haiti well Haitian diaspora, this...
This article uses a set of case histories to describe the physical and social terrain violence in Cité Soleil, Haiti, before after January 2010 earthquake. Employing empirical data, it aims interrogate our standard categorization analysis community responses violence. The study is guided by practical questions how individuals groups navigate respond ever-changing configurations their neighborhoods. considered both as specific Haiti its details an exemplar general problem that afflicts...
Building on empirical material gathered in Haiti, this paper advances a new and innovative understanding of the internal brain drain phenomenon—the poaching local skilled workers by international organisations (IOs) or non‐governmental (INGOs)— conceptualising it as an equilibrium. This equilibrium is composed two sets tensions: (i) those between salary conditions public sector offer to personnel working for IOs INGOs; (ii) inherent dual scale used INGOs staff. These tensions contribute...
One in 120 children are born with sickle cell disease (SCD) Haiti. However, health care challenges include isolated newborn screening (NBS) activities and lack of transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound to assess stroke risk. The implementation the Comparative Study Children Haiti Miami Sickle Cell Disease involved both NBS TCD implementations at 4 Haitian clinical sites. We hypothesized that hospital-based SCD follow-up programs would be feasible A traditional laboratory method dried blood...
Individuals who are indirectly exposed to disasters may be affected psychologically. The impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake reverberated throughout Haitian American community in Miami, Florida. Many within held strong transnational family and friendship bonds their homeland. We examined associations between indicators social connectedness symptom levels for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression, physical mental health status Americans non-Haitian were living Miami at time...
Abstract This study examined HIV/AIDS knowledge and beliefs in Haitian adolescents an HIV epicenter, Miami-Dade Florida. survey data from 300 adolescents, aged 13 through 18, both low- middle-income neighborhoods. A sub-sample of 80 was selected for in-depth interviews continuous observations with their families networks friends, which added rich descriptions to the quantitative data. Overall about high majority identifying unprotected sex sharing injection drug needles as transmission...
The catastrophic earthquake of January 2010 deepened the socio-cultural fault lines and disparities that define Haitian society. Even before, needs population prioritisation intervention were managed by international actors. As a result societal fragilities ineffectiveness state in shoring up community relations basic services, proliferation NGOs has arisen shanties to organise local groups around short-term programmes. Building on surveys ethnographic research, this article analyses...
Abstract The threat generated by the COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered sudden institutional changes in an effort to reduce viral spread. Restrictions on group gatherings and in‐person engagement have increased demand for remote service delivery. These restrictions also affected delivery of court‐mandated interventions. However, much literature focused populations that voluntarily seek out face‐to‐face medical care or mental health services, whereas insufficient attention been paid telehealth...