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Candace Black, PhD, is a research Psychologist with an interdisciplinary lens. Dr. Black has spent the last several years establishing her record of expertise at the intersections of child development, early life adversity, and global health. Dr. Black's research program is directed at understanding how children develop cognitive and emotional tools to cope with exposure to adversity, with the ultimate aim of investigating adaptive, advantageous responses to adversity.

Dr. Bah is a Research Associate / NIMH-Funded Diversity Supplement completing his two-year fellowship related to an intergenerational study of war affected youth in Sierra Leone. Dr. Bah will analyze and manage qualitative data comprising focus groups and key informant interviews collected among fathers in rural Sierra Leone to understand the influence of economic stressors on fathers’ sense of self-efficacy, mental health, and parenting role. He will additionally analyze and manage focus groups with males and females and in-depth interviews with fathers to link parental stressors to parental-child dyadic interactions; and analyze quantitative survey and RSA data from fathers and offspring participating in intergenerational study of war to examine associations between harsh and warm parenting styles and offspring internalizing and externalizing problems by gender.

Mohsen Rajabi is a third-year PhD student in Psychology at the University of Bath in the UK. He is also an Honorary Associate in Research at the University of East London (UEL) and a member of the African Youth Safeguarding Network (AYSN). His central research interests include the socio-environmental and developmental impacts of adversity on vulnerable and marginalised populations, particularly refugee families in LMICs; sensitivity and resilience; and applied cross-cultural mental health studies.