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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.

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.