Fellows & Alumni

Michael Galvin, PhD, MPH, LCSW (2022-)
Dr. Galvin is a global health researcher and psychotherapist (LCSW) with a PhD in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.  He has a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and master’s degrees in Public Health and Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Galvin’s primary research interests center on mental health and the role that one’s environment, culture, and belief systems play in mental illness and treatment in low- and middle-income settings.  In particular, his work focuses on elucidating cultural models of mental illness and exploring relationships to pathways to care, with the goal of improving cultural adaptation of mental health interventions.  Prior to his fellowship at the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program, Dr. Galvin completed an NIH Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE²RO) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he examined the relationship between mental health and local systems of belief in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 and HIV pandemics in South Africa. Dr. Galvin’s international research experiences have taken him to West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, the Middle East, and Haiti.   

Jasper S. Lee, PhD, MS (2022-)
Dr. Lee completed his pre-doctoral internship in the Behavioral Medicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami, with a specialty in Behavioral Medicine and a concentration in quantitative psychology. Dr. Lee’s primary research focus examines the complex interrelationships among co-occurring psychosocial and structural problems, and how these synergistic epidemics (i.e., syndemics), affect the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases such as HIV and TB. He is interested in applying advanced and novel statistical methods to examine psychosocial and structural problems in the syndemic framework, as well as integrating technological advancements into research and clinical care. Dr. Lee completed an NIMH-funded dissertation study (F31MH122279; Lee) among people with HIV in South Africa. His future work aims to develop transdiagnostic and multi-level interventions to address the most influential psychosocial and structural syndemic problems among people with infectious diseases in resource-constrained settings. Dr. Lee also provides clinical services as a clinical psychologist in the Behavioral Medicine Program at MGH.

Mihoko Maru, PhD, MA, LCSW (2022-)
Dr. Maru completed her master’s degrees in psychology and social work, and her PhD in social work at Boston University. Dr. Maru is dedicated to promoting mental health equity for marginalized communities in both domestic and international contexts through research and clinical practice. As a social work researcher, Dr. Maru’s work is grounded in the socio-ecological model. She is particularly interested in enhancing mental health practice through the examination of structural and socio-cultural barriers and facilitators to accessing mental healthcare. Dr. Maru’s current research focuses on the impact of trauma on mental health, suicide risk, and psychotic disorders among children and youth from low-resource communities. She hopes to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based programs to support children, youth, and families affected by trauma in low-resource countries. In addition to her research fellowship, Dr. Maru provides clinical care as a family therapist at the Wellness and Recovery After Psychosis (WRAP) Program at BMC.

Elizabeth M. Waldron, PhD, MS (2022-)
Dr. Waldron received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she specialized in health psychology. She completed her predoctoral internship at Rush University Medical Center, gaining extensive experience in sexual and reproductive stress and trauma treatment and research through the Center for Women’s Behavioral and Mental Health. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Waldron served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, where she developed community health programs on topics including sexual health education and domestic violence prevention at the local and national levels. Her clinical and research focuses are women’s mental health, reproductive health, and trauma-related disorders. Dr. Waldron joined the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program to contribute to research that improves the mental health and healthcare engagement of trauma-exposed women in resource-limited settings during the perinatal period.

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Kimberly Hook, PhD, MA (2019-2022)
Dr. Hook is a licensed psychologist with specific training and expertise in clinical (MA) and counseling (PhD) psychology. She completed her doctoral degree at Loyola University Chicago and her clinical training in hospital-based settings in the Chicago area (e.g., Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital). She has extensive experience providing evidence-based clinical care (e.g., CBT, DBT) to a diverse range of patients, with emphasis on treating mood and anxiety disorders. Her clinical knowledge directly impacts her ability to effectively translate interventions developed in one setting to another. Her main area of scientific interest is global mental health, specifically research that seeks to increase access to evidence-based psychological care in low and middle-income countries. The majority of her work is in Ukraine, where she is working on a variety of projects that investigate implementation of an evidence-based common elements mental health intervention in healthcare settings in Kyiv. 

Maria C. Prom, MD (2019-2022)
Dr. Prom received her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, completed psychiatry residency training in the Harvard MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, and completed clinical fellowship training in the MGH Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Prom’s research is focused on mental health systems and services development in low-resource settings, specifically the integration of mental health care into medical care and sustainable training of non-mental health professionals. She has completed collaborative research projects locally and internationally and is currently focused on overcoming limited access to mental health care in perinatal populations in Peru through the development and implementation of an integrated perinatal mental health care system. Her research, teaching, and clinical work have led to journal and book chapter publications, national conference presentations, research training grant support, and clinical and research awards and honors. Dr. Prom was awarded a Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dupont Warren Research Fellowship Award and HMS Livingston Research Fellowship Award in July 2022 to continue her research.

Amelia M. Stanton, PhD (2019-2022)
Dr. Stanton completed her pre-doctoral internship in the Behavioral Medicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and received her doctorate in clinical psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and in 2019. Her primary research interest is the development of psychosocial interventions that support women’s sexual health. Dr. Stanton joined the T32 fellowship in July 2019 to pursue training in mental health treatment development for women in low income, global settings who are at high risk for HIV acquisition. During the fellowship, she submitted a K23 application focused on reducing psychological barriers to HIV prevention behaviors among pregnant women in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Stanton is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her lab will focus on intervention development to mitigate sexual health disparities among women and other minoritized groups, both internationally and domestically.

Haley A. Carroll, PhD (2018-2021)
Dr. Carroll earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington and completed her clinical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Carroll completed prior funding opportunities from the National Institutes of Health including training in: 1) global health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru (2016-2017; Fogarty D43; Kuskaya: An interdisciplinary training program for innovation in global health); 2) gender inequity, University of Washington in Seattle, US (2014-2017; NIAAA F31, PI: Carroll, Dispositional Factors that Predict Drinking in Young Adult Women); and 3) research in alcohol use disorders, University of Washington in Seattle, US (2011-2014; NIAAA T32 PI: Larimer; Psychology Training in Alcohol Research Program). Dr. Carroll is motivated to leverage rigorous mixed-methods research and evaluation to uncover and advance solutions that eliminate disparity in mental health infrastructure. She has experience in international health research in areas such as migration and forced displacement, gender inequity, and mental health systems, in underserved and marginalized populations in locations across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States. During her fellowship, Dr. Carroll collaborated with researchers at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru to investigate the impact of forced displacement from Venezuela to Peru on mental health, and potential treatment targets within this population.

Christine E. Cooper-Vince, PhD (2016-2019)
Dr. Cooper-Vince earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Boston University and completed her predoctoral internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Track. During her fellowship, Dr. Cooper-Vince worked under the mentorship of Dr. Alex Tsai to collaborate with partners at MGH and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital/Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Mbarara, Uganda. She used mixed methods to examine the effects of water insecurity on parenting and child wellbeing, as well as the expression and community conceptualization of child mental health problems in rural southwestern Uganda. Dr. Cooper-Vince also co-led a cognitive-behavioral therapy training collaboration between the MUST Psychiatry Department (Director: Dr. Godfrey Rukundo) and the MGH Psychiatry Academy and completed a mixed methods evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of the program. In addition, Dr. Cooper-Vince contributed to the mentoring of staff and trainees at MGH and MUST, including formal mentorship on caregiver support interventions (D43TW010128), and informal mentorship of trainee career advancement in psychological sciences. Following the fellowship, Dr. Cooper-Vince relocated to Switzerland with her family where she is completing a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Univeristy of Geneva.