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| Huaibo Xin, Candidate for Ph.D., Department of Public Health Education, UNCG; MPH, Department of Public Health Education, UNCG Tel: 336.256.8079 Email: h_xin@uncg.edu |
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Biographical Information
Huaibo Xin was originally from Shanghai, China. Before she came to the United States in 2005, she studied Clinical Medicine (Western Medicine) in the Shanghai Medical College at Fudan University. After her graduation, she practiced medicine in Shanghai Mental Health Center as a psychiatrist for two years. In 2001, she received her Doctor's License in Clinical Medicine in China. Later, she became a physician in internal medicine. With a great interest in disease prevention and health promotion, she chose Public Health as her future career. From 2005 to 2007, she was a Master's candidate in UNCG's Department of Public Health Education and concentrated on community public health. She graduated in May 2007 with a Master's degree in Public Health. In August 2007, she became a doctoral candidate of public health and a research assistant in the Department of Public Health Education at UNCG.
Since 2006, she has started getting more contact with the immigrant or refugee populations living in the U.S. The pre-immigration, immigration and post-immigration experiences within these populations raised her concern regarding the state of their mental health. In 2006-2007, as her internship project, she designed and conducted a needs assessment for investigating the mental health needs of the refugees living in the Glen Haven Complex. The project was overseen by the Center for New North Carolinians. Based on the Precede-Proceed Model, a 65-item questionnaire containing two screening scales for depression and anxiety disorders and other twenty-five questions was created. Through the structured interviews, the data was collected from this population. The relationships between the refugees' mental health status (e.g. depression and anxiety) and (1) their environmental and behavioral risk factors of mental disorders, (2) knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes on mental disorders, and (3) enabling factors for them to improve their mental health were examined. During the spring of 2007, she was also a volunteer for tutoring the refugee children’s after-school study in the Glen Haven Tutorial Center.
CNNC Research Fellow
She was recruited as a CNNC research fellow in the fall of 2007. As a continuum of the needs assessment project, she is writing a collaborative grant proposal for seeking a funding resource which may enable her and the partners to develop an intervention program for reducing the refugees' risk factors of mental disorders. The origin plan of this intervention will include mental health counseling, workshops, and mental health screening.