Dr. Huaibo XinAssistant Professor(e-mail) Education: Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) with a major in Community Health and a minor in Educational Research Methodology Specialization: Phone: Office: |
Dr. Xin joined the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at SIUE in Fall, 2011. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine from the Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China. She practiced medicine both in psychiatry and internal medicine in China for years. In 2007, she received her master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from the Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2011, she received her doctoral degree in Public Health from the same department. Her dissertation focused on examining individual, family, and community resilience to a natural disaster among Vietnamese refugees in North Carolina by using an ethnographic approach.
Dr. Xin’s research interest is working with vulnerable populations on their mental health issues. She has been conducting studies with multiethnic international refugee groups. The goal is to reduce their vulnerabilities to mental disorders including disaster mental disorders within a social-ecological domain and increase their equal access to mental health services. In addition, she has been actively involved in health-related program evaluation by using community-based participatory research/evaluation methodology. Her research studies have been presented at both national and international conferences. Recently, she is a professional member of the American Public Health Association, American Evaluation Association, Mental Health America, and Association of Refugee Service Professionals.
Dr. Xin currently teaches Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics (HED 455) and Emotional Health and Stress Management (HED 462).
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