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Guitele J. Rahill, Ph.D., LCSWProfessor EmeritusSend email
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Guitele Jeudy Rahill, Ph.D., LCSW, is Professor Emerita in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (CBCS). She received her MSW (鈥�93) and Ph.D. (鈥�08) from 51在线 International University (FIU) where she was a Presidential Fellow. Dr. Rahill focuses on reducing health and mental health disparities for Haitians. Her scientific contributions have been in identifying syndemic interactions among traditional Haitian health beliefs and practices, adverse childhood experiences, non-partner sexual violence against girls and women, and geographical disasters. She has contributed to capacity building in Haitian communities, identifying key stakeholders that can contribute to self-sufficiency and reduction of fragility. She emphasizes the need for compassion-driven trauma interventions, and community capacity building.
She has published several peer reviewed articles in venues such as the American Journal of Public health, AIDS Care, the Journal of Affective Disorders, the Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health, the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Quarterly, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, Natural hazards, Disasters Journal, Social Work in Public Health, and International Journal of Mental Health.
Dr. Rahill has used her decades of experience as an LCSW and her research accomplishments to enhance her teaching. She consistently receives outstanding teaching evaluations, in part because of the integration of her work and research experiences with the course content. She enjoys mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in research and has supervised the work of three doctoral students and been involved in thesis committees.
Dr. Rahill was one of 2 Principal Investigators on a 5-year Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health grant called S.H.A.R.E Haiti. That grant contributed to building research infrastructure in Haiti, enabling Haitian scholars to develop and implement research that directly impacts their communities. She also has completed a National Science Foundation funded research project that contributed to understanding the role of social capital in post-disaster housing recovery following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Dr. Rahill also obtained funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation鈥檚 Grand Challenges Exploration Round 20, 鈥淗ealthy Minds for Adolescent Mothers: Achieving Healthy Outcomes for the Family鈥�.
She has been honored with several awards for research excellence and for mentoring students from the undergraduate through doctoral levels.
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