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Alana Alexander is an applied medical anthropologist whose work focuses on trauma-informed interventions, community resilience, and the empowerment of populations. Drawing on neuroscience, sociology, and public health, she examines and addresses the root causes of health issues and disease across...

Dr. Melillo is a Nurse Researcher at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Denver, CO, and Director of the Nursing Innovations Center for Evaluation. She earned her BSN from Indiana University, her MPH from the University of South Florida and her PhD in Nursing from the Uniformed Services...

Emma Abell-Selby is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research interests focus broadly on the nexus of policy, power, and academic practices within higher education. Emma’s dissertation research explores the teaching practices of...

Chrystal A. S. Smith, Ph.D., is an external affiliate of the AQUASS Research Lab. She is an anthropologist with an M.P.H. in epidemiology. Her research interests include chronic disease and behavioral health management. Dr. Smith has extensive experience developing and writing grant proposals for...

Dr. Enola Okonkwo is a Faculty Affiliate of the AQUASS Research Lab, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, and the Associate Program Director for the USF Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She also serves as an Emergency Medicine Physician at Tampa...

Katelyn Carlsen is an honors Undergraduate Student majoring in Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Florida. Her primary work focuses on integrating and applying computer science with neurology, with a particular emphasis on diagnosing mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) using deep learning...

Dr. Chad K. Radwan is an external affiliate of the AQUASS Research Lab and a Health Science Specialist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System's Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR). He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology and his current research foci include suicide prevention, burnout...