{"id":6592,"date":"2019-10-23T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?page_id=6592"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:54:46","slug":"fellows-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/education-2\/t32-global-fellowship\/fellows-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Anvita Bhardwaj, PhD, MSPH (2024-)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Bhardwaj received her PhD in Mental Health from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) and was funded by a National Institute of Health (NIH) global mental health training grant. Her dissertation focused on the mental health impact of engaging male partners in women\u2019s health intervention in low-and-middle-income countries. Prior to joining the doctoral program at BSPH, she received her MSPH focused on women\u2019s health from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at BSPH and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is passionate about increasing access to mental health care for women, partner engagement in health interventions, mixed-methods research, and leveraging the use of digital technology in mental health interventions in low resource settings. She has been involved in projects in Baltimore, Bangladesh, Nepal, and South Africa. Since joining the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry program, Dr. Bhardwaj has been focusing on HIV and mental health in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

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Kalo C. Sokoto, PhD (2024-)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Sokoto completed her pre- and postdoctoral clinical training at Boston Medical Center\/Boston University. She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from West Virginia University in 2023. As an advocate for health equity, her dissertation looked at racism in US dental care settings and its relationship to dental anxiety and dental visits. Her findings deepened her interest in anxiety disorders among people of African descent. Her current research interest is: (1) understanding traumatic stress in people of African descent; (2) culturally responsive tailoring of existing evidence-based interventions for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and (3) studying the implementation of evidence-based PTSD treatments in group format. As a T32 fellow in the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program, Dr. Sokoto is interested in collaborating with mental health researchers and providers in Kenya to advance the discourse on trauma exposure and PTSD interventions. Dr. Sokoto provides group-based PTSD treatment at Boston Medical Center\u2019s Immigrant & Refugee Health Center. She has lived and worked in three continents, speaks three languages, and identifies as a global citizen.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kristen S. Regenauer, PhD (2025-)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Regenauer received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of the Global Mental Health and Addiction Program (GMAP). She recently completed her predoctoral clinical internship on the Behavioral Medicine track at Harvard Medical School\/Massachusetts General Hospital. Her dissertation was funded by an R36 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and evaluated whether working with a peer recovery coach (i.e., a trained lay health provider with lived substance use experience) decreased internalized substance use stigma among people living with HIV and active substance use in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Regenauer’s research interests focus on increasing access to and engagement in healthcare among people living with HIV who use substances in resource-limited settings, with an emphasis on decreasing substance use stigma. She is particularly interested in studying sustainable and scalable ways to task-share behavioral interventions to lay health workers.<\/p>\n

\"\"Catherine A. Maloney, PhD, MSc (2026-)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Maloney completed a joint doctorate in clinical psychology and peace studies from the University of Notre Dame and recently completed a doctoral clinical internship at UChicago Medicine. Her research interests broadly focus on the implementation and evaluation of mental health interventions for violence-exposed youth and families in cross-cultural settings. She is additionally interested in understanding how diverse forms of violence (e.g., direct, structural) influence youths\u2019 psychosocial development, with a particular consideration of how these violence forms interact across social-ecological levels (e.g., individual, family, community). Dr. Maloney\u2019s dissertation employed mixed method and multilevel data to evaluate the association of direct and structural violence exposure with the mental health of Palestinian adolescents living across Gaza and the West Bank. By further understanding pathways of risk and resilience, Dr. Maloney seeks to engage in community-based participatory research to develop feasible and acceptable interventions that support a strong start for children and families.<\/p>\n

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\u00c9rinn C. Cameron, PhD (2024-2025)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Cameron received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University, where she focused on women\u2019s health and neuropsychology. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship in Integrated Behavioral Health at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with clinical rotations in kidney transplant, primary care, consult and liaison, infectious disease\/HIV care, and a research rotation in global perinatal mental health. Prior to joining the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program, Dr. Cameron completed an HBNU Global Health Fellowship where she conducted research on water insecurity and women\u2019s mental health in South Africa. Dr. Cameron is currently an Impact Scholar at the Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, where her primary research focuses on the impact of extreme heat on perinatal mental health and birth outcomes in Latin America. Her clinical work focuses on women\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n

\"\"Elizabeth M. Waldron, PhD (2022-2025)
\n<\/span><\/b><\/strong>Dr. Waldron received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, specializing 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\u2019s 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 interests are women\u2019s mental health, reproductive health, and trauma-related disorders. Since joining the BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program, Dr. Waldron\u2019s research has focused on mental health, healthcare engagement, and substance use among trauma-exposed women in resource-limited settings during the perinatal period.<\/p>\n

\"\"Michael Galvin, PhD, MPH, LCSW (2022-2024)
\n<\/strong>Dr. Galvin\u00a0is a global health researcher and psychotherapist (LCSW) with a PhD in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.\u00a0\u00a0He has a bachelor\u2019s degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and master\u2019s degrees in Public Health and Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Galvin\u2019s primary research interests center on mental health and the role that one\u2019s environment, culture, and belief systems play in mental illness and treatment in low- and middle-income settings.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Prior to his fellowship at the <\/span>BUMC-MGH Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program<\/span>,\u00a0Dr. Galvin completed an NIH Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2<\/sup>RO) 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\u00a0Africa. Dr. Galvin\u2019s international research experiences have taken him to\u00a0West\u00a0Africa, East\u00a0Africa, Southern\u00a0Africa, the Middle East, and\u00a0Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong>\"\"Jasper S. Lee, PhD, MS (2022-2023)
\n<\/strong>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\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Mihoko Maru, PhD, MA, MSW (2022-2024)
\n<\/strong>Dr. Maru holds an MA in psychology, MSW and PhD in social work from Boston University. Additionally, she is a licensed clinical social worker with expertise in family interventions for serious mental illness and child and adolescent trauma. Dr. Maru is dedicated to promoting mental health equity in both domestic and international contexts and enhancing trauma-informed mental healthcare in under-resourced communities. She has over 10 years of experience in intervention research and program evaluations of community-based mental health and parenting programs. Domestically, Dr. Maru\u2019s work has focused on examining the impact of trauma and immigration-related factors on youth suicidality, caregiver mental health, and caregiver-child relationships among Asian Americans and migrants from Latin America. Internationally, she collaborates with the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine in Durban, South Africa to improve treatments for young people with early psychosis.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kimberly Hook, PhD, MA (2019-2022)
\n<\/strong>Dr. Hook is\u00a0a 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\u00a0training in hospital-based settings in the\u00a0Chicago area (e.g., Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health\u00a0Hospital). 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.\u00a0Her 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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Maria C. Prom, MD (2019-2022)
\n<\/strong>Dr. Prom\u00a0received 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\u2019s 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. D<\/span>r. Prom was awarded a Harvard\u00a0Medical School (HMS) Dupont Warren Research Fellowship Award and HMS Livingston Research Fellowship\u00a0Award in July 2022 to continue her research.<\/p>\n

\"\"Amelia M. Stanton, PhD (2019-2022)
\n<\/strong>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.\u00a0Her primary research interest is the development of psychosocial interventions that support women\u2019s 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\u00a0Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her lab will focus on intervention development to\u00a0mitigate sexual health disparities among women and other minoritized groups, both internationally and\u00a0domestically.<\/p>\n

\"\"Haley A. Carroll, PhD (2018-2021)
\n<\/strong>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.\u00a0Dr. 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<\/em>); 2) gender inequity, University of Washington in Seattle, US (2014-2017;\u00a0NIAAA F31, PI: Carroll, Dispositional Factors that Predict Drinking in Young Adult Women<\/em>); and 3) research in alcohol use disorders, University of Washington in Seattle, US (2011-2014;\u00a0NIAAA T32 PI: Larimer; Psychology Training in Alcohol Research Program<\/em>).\u00a0Dr. 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.\u00a0<\/span>During her fellowship<\/span>, Dr. Carroll collaborated with researchers at Universidad del Pac\u00edfico in Lima, Peru to investigate the impact of forced displacement from Venezuela to Peru on mental health, and potential treatment targets within this population.<\/p>\n

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Christine E. Cooper-Vince, PhD (2016-2019)
\n<\/strong>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 Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Univeristy of Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anvita Bhardwaj, PhD, MSPH (2024-) Dr. Bhardwaj received her PhD in Mental Health from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) and was funded by a National Institute of Health (NIH) global mental health training grant. Her dissertation focused on the mental health impact of engaging male partners in women\u2019s health intervention in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14360,"featured_media":0,"parent":3475,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6592\/revisions\/12845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}