About Us
Graduate and Affiliate Scholars
Lynsey Valkos
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in behavioral health education and clinical practice, human trafficking, natural disasters, war, and gun violence, global approaches to mental health care access, trauma recovery.
Ishani Rewatkar
Research Interests: Barriers to mental health care for women and minority populations, stigma reduction of mental illness, perceptions of mental health worldwide
Sophia Bullian
Research Interests: Intimate partner violence prevention programs and policies, impact of Intimate partner violence and sex trafficking on women’s health, and impacts of teen dating violence.
Matthew Bernucca (USF CBCS Research Scholarship Recipient)
Research Interests: Outcomes on health and well-being from the historic rise of voice-based communication opportunities increasingly replaced by text-based media.
Travis Egerter
Research Interests: Mindfulness, mental health, cultural humility, and social determinants of health.
Joseph Heger (USF CBCS Research Scholarship Recipient)
Research Interests: Collective impact of conflict transformation, global health, and social constructivism on conflict, security, and thanatology at the organizational and regional community levels.
Tahseen Hussain
Research Interests: Health of underprivileged communities around the world, women's health, violence and its health consequences, violence prevention strategies.
