Dr. De la Rosa holds a doctoral degree from Ohio State University . Dr. De La Rosa is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Latino HIV/AIDS Behavioral Science Center (LHABSC) and the Latino Drug Abuse Research Center (LDARC). He is also a tenured Associate Professor in the College of Health and Urban Affairs (CHUA) at Florida International University .
Dr. De La Rosa was a Visiting Associate Research Professor at Boston University 's School of Social Work , where he spearheaded the development of their Minority Research Development Drug Abuse Research Program. As a result of his efforts, Boston University was awarded a $2 million capacity building research grant from NIDA. Prior to that time he was a Health Science Administrator at the National Institute of Health (NIH), where he worked for ten years.
Dr. De La Rosa's research has resulted in the publication of a special issue of the journal Drugs and Society (released simultaneously as a book) and forty-three other scientific publications in peer review journals, book chapters, research monographs, and seven government reports. Of these, twenty-one have been published or accepted for publication since he joined FIU. During the past year, he has been a principal consultant on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) project which has been investigating the drug-using behavior of Dominican and Puerto Rican gangs in the city of Lawrence , Massachusetts . In addition, he recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a research study on Haitian juvenile delinquents in the Miami-Dade area.
Before Dr. De La Rosa assumed a position in academia, he was a senior program official at NIDA. While at NIDA, he developed and managed an acclaimed research program on the epidemiology of drug use in minority populations and the drug use/crime connection. He was also instrumental in the development of NIDA's Hispanic Work Group in 1987 and NIDA's Minority Fellowship Program, which has awarded over 200 fellowships to aspiring minority drug abuse researchers.
He's served as a member of FIU's Human Subjects Institutional Review Board Committee, the Tenure and Promotions Committee, and the College of Health and Urban Affairs' Research Committee.
Dr. Malow is an ABPP Diplomat in Health Psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist. He works as a professor in the College of Health and Urban Affairs at FIU, and serves as LHABSC staff faculty mentor and trainer.
Before joining the faculty at Florida International University , Dr. Malow was the Director of Research and Training, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Addiction Research Center at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. From 1983-1992, he conducted numerous VA-funded clinical studies as an Associate Professor at Tulane University and as the Clinical Director of the New Orleans VAMC drug dependency program.
Since 1992, Dr. Malow has conducted HIV/AIDS research at the Miami V AMC as PI on a 4-year NIDA-funded HIV prevention outcome study. He also served as PI on a study that collected data on inner-city minority drug-abusing pregnant and post-partum women. Currently, he is the PI on 4 NIH-funded studies. His extensive background as a researcher in the HIV/AIDS area makes him ideally suited to mentor faculty selected to participate in the pilot studies core as well as graduate students participating in the LHABSC training program, as evidenced by the support of several minority fellowship grants.
Dr. Newman holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Massachusetts , an MA from Kent State University and a BA from Allegheny College of Meadville, PA. He is a senior methodologist/statistician and Professor in the Health Services Administration program at Florida International University .
Since 1966, he has been a member of the graduate faculty at a several universities, teaching graduate courses and either chairing, co-chairing, or serving on the committees of numerous masters' theses or dissertations. He also served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , a position he held from 1991 to 1996 and again in 2004.
Dr. Newman has worked on many National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded projects providing statistical advice related to the collection of data on the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention education programs.
He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1971-72); and is currently a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Psychological Association , and American Psychological Society . He has been awarded two master teaching awards over the last decade.
Dr. Beaulaurier is an Associate Professor with the School of Social Work at FIU and a Research Associate with FIU's Immigration and Ethnicity Institute and the Center on Aging. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington . He currently teaches doctoral, MAster and undergraduate courses on community social work practice, social services administration and research. Dr. Beaulaurier is currently engaged in research on social services funded by se vera l federal agencies. He is a co-investigator on the "Urban Change Project," a study of welfare reform in Miami sponsored by the Manpower Development Research Corporation, and he was a co-principal investigator on the "Haitian Juvenile Arrestees Prevention Intervention Study" (Dr. Mario De La Rosa, P.I.).
He is a consultant to the Human Services Coalition of Miami-Dade County (HSC) and has assisted in the development of projects that include the Families In Touch (FIT) program that assisted former welfare recipients to become self-advocates in regard to service and job-training bureaucracies. He is assisting with the development of evaluation strategies for HSC's USDA-funded program to enroll working poor persons in benefits programs. Prior to entering academia, he served as a social services manager and community organizer, as well as director of the Los Angeles office of the National Council on the Aging.
Dr. Felizzola received his medical degree and a Master's Degree in Public Health Administration from Universidad del Norte in Colombia , and a Master's Degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University in Miami , Florida .
He has over 15 years of experience in the field of public health research and practice. In Colombia, Dr. Felizzola was the Chief of Occupational Health for the Ministry of Health, Director of Planning for a private HMO based in Bogotá, and consultant for Caprecom, ISS, and Cajanal, the three largest public health insurance agencies in that country. He also performed as the Health Policy Advisor to the Director of the National Department of Statistics in Colombia .
He has authored se vera l publications, and prior to coming to FIU, he was the Principal Investigator of a HRSA-sponsored study on the effectiveness of an HIV / AIDS intervention and the Evaluation Manager at Care Resource, South Florida 's largest HIV/AIDS service organization.
He has been a member of the steering committee of the Latin American Association of Social Security and Health, a member of the Colombian Health Administration Association and of the Latin American Studies Association, and a member of the advisory board of the Community Jail Linkage Coalition.
Ms. Pernía has a BA in anthropology and a minor in Folklore and Mythology from George Mason University and is currently seeking an MA degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Florida International University .
Before joining the center, Ms. Pernía worked as Administrative Coordinator at Care Resource, where she supervised administrative procedures and the volunteer program. She also served as a graduate research assistant at the Latin American and Caribbean Center , SOAC, and was part of the production team of the Smithsonian Center for Folk-life and Cultural Heritage and Folkways Recordings in Washington , DC .
Harry Timothee has an MA in Biology, a BA in Biology and a BA in psychology from Hunter College in New York , and is currently working towards a PH.D. in Dietetics and Nutrition from Florida International University . He is a Research Associate with the Latino Drug Abuse Research Center .
Prior to that, he worked as an adjunct with the College of Health and Urban Affairs at FIU, and as a clinical dietitian with the Miami Heart Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center . He's also worked with the South Miami Hospital-Baptist Health System as a polysomnographer. He's been part of the faculty at Ward Stone College and at the Technical Career Institute.
Mr. Timothee has had extensive lab and research experience, and is certified by the American Heart Association for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
Hansel Castro has a BA in English from Florida International University . Throughout his scholastic career he worked for the Beacon, FIU's Student Newspaper, as Arts Editor and then as Production Manager. He often does freelance work for local newspapers, including Miami Beach 's Sunpost, where he served as an intern.
Ramiro Martinez, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Ohio State University . He is currently an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Public Health in Florida International University .
He was formerly an Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, an affiliated Professor in Black American Studies, and on the Faculty in the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies at the University of Delaware . He has published a book and over thirty-five journal articles and chapters in the areas of Latino and immigrant violence. He has held appointed and elected positions in the American Society of Criminology, the American Sociological Association, and is on the editorial board of the journal Criminology .
He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR) at Carnegie Mellon University , and a member of the Sloan Youth Violence Working Group at Harvard University . Dr. Martinez has also held fellowships from the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Minority Fellowship Program, the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program and The Ohio State University. He has been recognized for his contributions and has received awards from the American Sociological Association Latina\o Section Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research.
Mary Jo Trepka has a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College , an M.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, and an MSPH from the University of Colorado . She is an Associate Professor with the Department of Public Health at Florida International University .
Prior to that, Dr. Trepka was the Director of the Office of Epidemiology and Disease Control with the Miami Dade County Health Department. She was also an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, and an epidemiologist with the Institute of Epidemiology , GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit ( Research Center for the Environment and Health) in Munich , Germany .
Dr. Trepka has been the PI for several Florida Department of Health researches, including “Evaluating Active Surveillance in Outpatient Clinics,” “Hepatitis and Liver Failure Prevention Program,” and the “Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.”
She is a fellow at the American College of Preventive Medicine, and a member of the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She also belongs to the American Public Health Association, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the American College of Epidemiology, and the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
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