Position: Clinical Psychologist specialising in the development of children and adolescents and is also a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oran, Algeria
Background: Mrs. Fatima Delladj-Sebaa is a practising Clinical Psychologist specialising in the development of children and adolescents and is also a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oran, Algeria. She was educated at the Universities of Lille, France and Oran, Algeria and holds a doctorate on the identity of adolescence. Ms Fatima Delladj-Sebaa has extensive research experience regarding child and adolescent psychology with a particular emphasis on the issues of suicide, family, drug use, violence against women, child and youth participation and education. She is a research associate at the National Centre for Research into Social and Cultural Anthropology and has worked as an Expert and Consultant for various organisations including UNIFEM, UNICEF, the Social and Economic Council and the National Organisation for the Fight against Drugs and Drug-addiction. She is Vice President of the National Council for the Family and Women and regularly broadcasts on local radio on issues of education and community cohesion. She has published widely on the issue of adolescence and identity.
Contact:
http://www.acerwc.org/experts/
Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, School of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
Background: Shannon Dorsey, Ph.D., has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, School of Medicine and an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research is on evidence-based treatments (EBT) for children and adolescents, with a particular focus on EBT for youth impacted by trauma who are involved with child welfare and on clinician training and supervision strategies. She is the Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded effectiveness trial evaluating Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and evidence-based engagement strategies for youth in foster care – Fostering Hope – and is involved in the evaluation of the SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Dorsey is also currently working on a number of state and government-funded projects with the goal of enhancing outcomes for youth by improving training and supervision of clinicians in community settings. With Ms. Lucy Berliner, Dr. Dorsey also designed and directs the Washington State TF-CBT and CBT Plus Initiative, a statewide training and consultation program for clinicians who serve children and adolescents on Medicaid (funded by the Department of Behavioral Health and Recovery).
In addition to this domestic work, Dr. Dorsey also has been focusing on implementing EBT in low and middle income countries. She is a Co-Investigator on an NIMH-funded study examining the feasibility of providing TF-CBT to youth who have been orphaned in Tanzania, Pamoja Tunaweza. She also collaborates with colleagues in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on a number of randomized controlled trials of a common elements, transdiagnostic approach to treating posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression in adults (USAID-funded; Iraq, Thailand, & Colombia).
Contact Information:
dorsey2@u.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 685-2085
Fax: (206) 685-3430
Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy
2815 Eastlake Ave E., Suite 200
Box 358015
Seattle, WA 98102
Link to CV
OVC Wellbeing Content:
Improving Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care: Trauma-Focused CBT
Randomized Controlled Trial of Ways to Improve OVC HIV Prevention and Well-Being (Zambia CBT)
Improving Outcomes for Orphaned Youth: Implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Traumatic Grief
Position: Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo
Director (Strategy) at the Good Practice Group
Background: Ananda Galappatti is a medical anthropologist and a practitioner in the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in situations of conflict, disaster and poverty. His work in this field over the past 15 years has been concerned with strategic interventions to improve access to knowledge and skills, build collaborative networks and enhance coherence within the field in Sri Lanka and also globally. His interests span the provision of MHPSS emergency responses, integration of MHPSS into post-emergency reconstruction and development, care and protection of vulnerable children, responses to gender-based violence, and services for people with serious mental illness.
Ananda was a co-founder of the journal Intervention and continues to serve on its editorial board. He is a founding Steward of the global MHPSS Network. Ananda is an affiliated fellow of the Social Policy Analysis & Research Centre (SPARC) at the University of Colombo, and also a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Graduate Studies there. He is currently a co-chair of the MHPSS Working Group at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
In 2010, Ananda co-founded The Good Practice Group, a social business for the development of MHPSS services, and he serves as its honarary director for strategy. Ananda currently lives in Batticaloa, on the East coast of Sri Lanka.
Contact Information:
ananda@goodpracticegroup.org
Position: International Sector Program Coordinator at the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research (CHPIR) at Duke University
Education: MPH, Health Behavior and Health Education; 2009. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Psychology; 2004. Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Background: Amy coordinates two international studies at CHPIR: the Positive Outcomes for Orphans (POFO) study and Coping with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania (CHAT). Her responsibilities include tracking research activities and communicating with project field staff, conducting site visits, developing study instruments, drafting study reports, assisting with data analysis, coordinating weekly meetings, submitting study amendments to the IRB, and other project related tasks as required.
Contact Information: amy.hobbie@duke.edu
919-613-5430
Position: Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Alabama at Burlington
Background: Dr. Grace Jepkemboi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education. Her teaching and research interest include child development and family relations, curriculum development, working with children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, and orphaned and vulnerable children. Dr. Jepkemboi examines policy in Kenya since independence with a focus on the impact of educational policy on literacy, poverty eradication, gender empowerment, health, and other wellbeing indicators.
Contact Information:
memoi@uab.edu
205-934-6674
OVC Wellbeing Content:
The educational and psychological experiences of children orphaned by AIDS in Western Kenya
Position: Fellow at the Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University Executive Director, Uganda Youth Development Links
Background: Rogers Kasirye, from Kampala, Uganda, received his BA in Social Work and Social Administration in 1991 and an MA in Human Rights in 2001 from Makerere University, Kampala. He has consulted with both local non-governmental organizations and international agencies, including WHO, UNODC ILO/IPECICF-Macro, and UNICEF, where he has been involved in the planning, implementation, advocacy and evaluation of programs related to child labor, street and slum children in Uganda and East Africa.
Mr. Kasirye’s past research has focused on juvenile drug abuse and sexual risk behaviors and AIDS awareness among street girls in Kampala. He has participated in NIDA-supported collaborative research designed to adapt materials on substance abuse and run away youth to Uganda. He is currently Executive Director of the Uganda Youth Development Link, and serves as scientific advisor to the Mentor Foundation and as Chairperson of the East Africa Policy Alliance, an NGO consortium. During his Fellowship year at VCU, Mr. Kasirye wants to learn more about substance prevention and policy work in the US and explore ways of improving the policy environment in Uganda.
Mr. Kasiryer also writes a blog for the World Federation Against Drugs.
Contact Information: kasiryer@yahoo.com
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital
Background:Caroline C. Kuo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Child and Adolescent Biobehavioral HIV at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. Her central research interests include the psychosocial and behavioral outcomes among HIV affected children and their caregivers and the development of preventive interventions to address health-related sequalae among HIV affected families. Dr. Kuo was recently the Co-Principal Investigator of the KwaZulu Natal Site of the South African Young Carers Study. This study set out to understand the effects of familial HIV on children and caregivers in HIV-endemic South African communities.
Dr. Kuo graduated with high distinction from University of Virginia. She also has a Master in International Development and a Doctorate in Social Policy, both from the University of Oxford.
Contact Information:
Caroline_Kuo@brown.edu
OVC Wellbeing Content:
Health of adults caring for orphaned children in an HIV-endemic community in Southern Africa
Depression among carers of AIDS-orphaned and other-orphaned children in Umlazi Township, South Africa
Position: Co-Director of the Center for Child Protection at the University of Indonesia
Background: Santi Kusumaningrum is a development and child protection specialist with more than a decade of experience on Indonesian legislation, policy, welfare and the justice system. Prior to pioneering the establishment and co-directing the Center on Child Protection at UI, Santi had worked for over 6 years managing UNICEF’s Policy, Legal and Justice for Children program in Indonesia at the national level, and overseeing those in more than 10 provinces and districts. Santi provides ongoing technical advise for a number of nat ional initiatives to the Ministry of Planning; the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights; and the Ministry of Social Affairs. She championed a significant change in Supreme Court’s legal aid system to better reach the most disadvantaged, after supported the creation of the pro bono legal aid unit and services in the Indonesian Bar Association. University of Indonesia where Center on Child Protection is operating is a familiar place to Santi as she spent the first 5 years of her professional life as Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in the Criminology Department.
Position: Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University
Background: Emphasizing the centrality of social relationships and cultural-historical context, Dr. Le Mare’s research focuses on risk and resilience processes and school adjustment in mainstream and diverse (e.g., Aboriginal, immigrant, early deprived, and other) populations.
Dr. Le Mare’s research currently is funded by a grant from the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, an SFU SSHRC Small Grant, and Health Canada.
Contact Information:
lemare@sfu.ca
Dr. McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society at The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Professor McKenzie has written on a range of economic topics, but has also conducted research on the outcomes of over 2,500 alumni from American orphanages. He is an alumnus of Barium Springs Home for Children where he grew up in the 1950s.
An economics professor and the Walter B. Gerken Professor of Enterprise and Society at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine, Dr. McKenzie has authored 30 books and is a nationally recognized authority on the Microsoft anti-trust case. His research focuses on economic policy issues. He is currently writing a book on In Search of a Defense of Rational Behavior in Economics.
Some of his recent books include: Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, And Other Pricing Puzzles; In Defense of Monopoly: How Market Powers Fosters creative Production; Digital Economics: How Information Technology Has Transformed Business Thinking; Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition.
He has written several hundred pamphlets, articles, chapters and scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals including Southern Economics Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, Public Choice, Journal of Political Economy and Ethics. His columns, articles and opinions have appeared in major newspapers, and his comments on national policy issues are cited often in newspapers across the country.
Professor McKenzie is a past president of the Southern Economic Association, and an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute.
While Professor McKenzie officially retired in 2011, he continues his relationship with the Merage School and greatly impacts its programs and students.
Contact Information: mckenzie@uci.edu
Personal website: http://web.merage.uci.edu/~mckenzie/
Film: Homecoming: The Forgotten World of America’s Orphanages
