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Ruby Joseph, MPA Associate In Research Phone: 813-974-9339 Fax: 813-974-6133 Office: MHC 2230 Send an email View 2024 Curriculum Vitae

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Ruby Joseph, MPA is an Associate-In-Research in the Division of Child and Family Behavioral Health (CFBH), Department of Child and Family Studies. Her primary interests are in research, evaluation, and service implementation of programs that benefit minority populations and communities. She is particularly interested in issues that affect the mental, educational, and social development of children and youth. More recently, Ms. Joseph has focused her research efforts on educational disparities impacting Black and Brown students along the educational continuum from preschool through graduate school.

Ms. Joseph was the Principal Investigator for a $30,000 USF anti-Black racism grant that studied the racial and educational challenges facing Black students in high school and college, in the Tampa Bay area. For the past seven years, Ms. Joseph has been the lead evaluator for an international, USF-not-for-profit-community-based partnership, that is implementing the HIPPY model in Liberia, West Africa. She conducts implementation and student outcome evaluation for this initiative and provides technical assistance on evaluation and data collection for WE-CARE, Inc., the lead agency for the initiative.

Ms. Joseph has been researcher and evaluator for the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY); and for seven years, served as the Principal Investigator/Program Director for the GEAR-UP program, which was a multi-year, federally and locally funded program that served low-income, minority youth by preparing them for graduation and placing them into post-secondary careers in vocational/technical schools, community and four-year universities. 

Over a thirty-year research career, Ms. Joseph has worked on several research and evaluation projects locally, nationally, and internationally. Her efforts have involved multiple service systems in mental health, substance abuse and education which have supported service interventions and evaluation services for low income, multicultural communities, families, and populations with high need. Over the last decade her projects have focused on evaluations and research in education, supporting students with emotional and developmental disabilities in Florida school systems and investigating racial disparities for minority students. Her work has also included evaluations of a juvenile diversion program and a child welfare program. 

Ms. Joseph’s expertise includes both qualitative and quantitative research methods and building University and community collaborations that foster the delivery of intervention and support programs in the Tampa Bay area, nationally and internationally. Ms. Joseph promotes knowledge and scholarship nationally and internationally through her evaluation and research work contributing to numerous technical reports, publications in refereed journals, a book chapter and sharing her research findings at local presentations at national conferences and international webinars.