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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...

Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, PhD is an anthropologist who studies how people are served by institutions, such as healthcare systems and schools. She uses approaches ground in access, brokerage, social networks, and cultural models to do basic science as well as support the application of these...

Ms. Yiwen Zha is a Social and Behavioral Researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Social Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida. She is passionate about using research and data analysis to inform policy decisions and drive change...

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...