LAHP and Entre Dos Mundos Staff
Principal Investigator:
Paul R Smokowski, MSW, Ph.D. (LAHP and Entre Dos Mundos)
Professor and Director
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Social Work
CB# 3550, 301 Pittsboro St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550
(919) 843-8281, smokowsk@email.unc.edu
Paul R. Smokowski, MSW, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. He has held Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellowships in Social Welfare and Child Development that were funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Smokowski received his doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and performed his post-doctoral work at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the Making Choices Project, a NIDA funded intervention research program that attempts to lower child and family risk for developing aggressive behavioral disorders. He is also Director of the Latino Acculturation and Health Project and the Parent-Teen Biculturalism Project. Both projects are funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Smokowski also is a collaborator on the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a twenty year prospective longitudinal investigation of early intervention in inner city African American youth. His research focuses on risk, resilience, and youth violence prevention program development.
Co-Principal Investigator:
Martica Bacallao, Ph.D., MSSW
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Social Work
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
M_BACALL@uncg.edu
(336) 334-4756
Martica Bacallao, MA, MSW, Ph.D., C.P., Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina – Greensboro Department of Social Work, has been working with immigrant families, particularly the Latino population, in community-based mental health agencies and public schools for the past 20 years. Dr. Bacallao’s expertise lies in mental health service delivery for Latino families living in rural and urban areas. She is a certified psychodramatist, and has facilitated psychodrama groups at The Multicultural Center (an out-patient facility) for the Washington D.C. Commission on Mental Health. Dr. Bacallao has Master’s degrees in Social Work and Community Counseling. She completed her doctorate in social work and is currently Co-Investigator, and clinical supervisor for The Parent Teen Biculturalism Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
Co-Principal Investigator for LAHP-Arizona:
Flavio Marsiglia, Ph.D.
Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
School of Social Work, College of Public Programs
ASU, PO Box 873711, Tempe, Arizona 85287-3711
(480) 965-4699, marsiglia@asu.edu
Link: http://sirc.asu.edu/
Flavio Marsiglia, Ph.D. is Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Director of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Consortium at Arizona State University. Dr. Marsiglia’s expertise lies in acculturation, ethnic identity, and adolescent substance use. He is a leading authority on the design and evaluation of social intervention and health promotion programs for Latino youth. He has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has received major federal research and center grant funding from the National Institute for Drug Abuse.
Project Coordinators:
Rachel Mills Dudenhausen, MSW
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Social Work
CB# 3550, 301 Pittsboro St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550
(919) 843-8144, millsr@email.unc.edu
Rachel is the Project Coordinator for the Latino Acculturation and Health Project. Rachel has an MSW and has been involved in research with Latino adolescents and families, immigration, and acculturation at the University of North Carolina for several years.
Monica Parsai is the Project Coordinator in Arizona. She and her team of four students conduct interviews with the Arizona families. Monica has an MSW and is currently a Social Work PhD student at Arizona State University. Her research interests are Latino families, immigration, the acculturation process, and drug prevention within that population.
Social Research Associates
Melissa Grabofski is a Social Research Associate for the Latino Acculturation and Health Project in North Carolina. She has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health and has worked with the Latino community in the area of health for more than five years.
Jorge Valdes is a Social Research Associate for the Latino Acculturation and Health Project in North Carolina. He joined the project in January of 2006 after working at Planned Parenthood. He was born in Chile, but having immigrated to the United States as a child he closely relates to many of the adolescent participants in the study. He has a BA in Linguistics and International Studies and will pursue an MA/PhD in Hispanic Linguistics beginning in Fall 2006.
