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Current Research Interests

• Support groups and chronic diseases
• Stigma and tuberculosis
• Cultural factors and infectious disease
• Cancer education and prevention
• Gender and Health
• Qualitative research

Research and Grant Support

Principal Investigator, “Cultural Diversity and Breast Cancer Support Groups,” Susan G. Komen Foundation, 5/1/07-4/30/09, $296,000.

                    

Principal Investigator, “Women’s Health Care in Hillsborough County,” Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, 8/22/05 – 6/19/06, $2500. 

 

Principal Investigator, “Stigma and Tuberculosis Among Haitian Populations,” National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, 6/1/03 – 5/31/08, $725,698.

 

Co-Principal Investigator, “Formative Research for Professional Training in Tuberculosis Control and Treatment” (PI Robert McDermott), 1/1/05 – 12/31/06, $230,000

 

Subcontract from University of Florida for CDC grant “Southeast Region Tuberculosis Training Center and Medical Consultation Center,” $1,165,000 (PI Michael Lauzardo), 1/01/05 – 12/31/10.

 

Principal Investigator, “Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health,” Maternal-Child Health Bureau, Health Resources & Services Administration, 6/1/05 – 5/31/06, $50,000.   

 

Principal Investigator, “Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health”, Maternal-Child Health Bureau, Health Resources & Services Administration, 6/1/03-5/31/05, $765,048.

 

Co-Principal Investigator, “MCH Epidemiology Training Grant”, Maternal-Child Health Bureau, Health Resources & Services Administration, 7/1/03 – 6/30/06, $78,000.

 

Principal Investigator, “The Role of Organizational Culture in the Delivery of Humanitarian Aid,” Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, University of South Florida, 200-05, $34,500.

 

Principal Investigator, “ Quality of Life and Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti,” Rollings School of Public Health, Emory University, August 1, 2003-May 31, 2004, $4,000.

 

Director of Research, Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, University of South Florida, Co-PIs Thomas J. Mason (USF) and William E. Bertrand (Tulane), U.S. Department of Defense, 2000-2001 ($3,200,000), 2001-2002 ($4,791,225).

 

Principal Investigator, Narrative Study of Breast Cancer Support Group Experience, Research and Creative Scholarship Award, University of South Florida, 2000-2001, ($4,000).

 

Pricipal Investigator, "Triple Touch Program Evaluation: Instructor Component", American Cancer Society: Florida Division, 1999, ($10,900)

 

Principal Investigator, "Development of Support Groups for Women With Filarial Elephantiasis in," World Health Organization, 1998-2000, ($70,269).

 

Project Director, "Evaluation of the Florida Prostate Cancer Forum," ACS/Florida Division, 1997-98, ($5,000).

 

Project Director, "An Assessment of the American Cancer Society's Man to Man Program," ACS/Florida Division, 1995-96, ($7,000).

 

Principal Investigator, "Cultural Context of Filarial Elephantiasis among Women in Leogane, Haiti," Centers for Disease Control, 1996, ($18,000).

 

Principal Investigator, "Maternal Employment and Child Health: The Omnibus Project," USF Research and Creative Scholarship Award, 1995-96, ($4300).

 

Project Director, "Cultural Acceptability of HIV Vaccine Trials in Haiti,"  funded by Johns Hopkins University, 1994 ($15,000).

 

Project Director, Qualitative Research on Breastfeeding in Rwanda.  Wellstart International/Manoff Group, 1993, ($30,000).

 

Principal Investigator, "Survey of Florida Pediatricians on Management of Diarrhea Associated with Tooth Eruption."  Biomedical Research Support Grant, 1990-91, ($500).

 

Principal Investigator, "Sociocultural Determinants of Community Participation in Rural Costa Rican Health and Nutrition Projects,"  USF Research and Creative Scholarship Award, 1990-91, ($6400).

 

Co-Investigator, "Assessment of Maternal Mortality and Perinatal Outcome in Haiti," P.I. Antoine Augustin, National Academy of Sciences, MotherCare/John Snow Inc., and USAID, 1989-90, ($172,000).

 

Co-Principal Investigator, "Household Ecology of Aedes aegypti Control in the Dominican Republic," P.I. Linda A. Whiteford, Johns Hopkins University/Rockefeller Foundation, 1989-90, ($36,500).