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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 is originally from Shanghai, China. Before she came to the US in 2005, she studied Clinical Medicine (Western Medicine) at the Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University. After graduation, she practiced medicine in as a psychiatrist for two years. In 2001, she received her Doctor’s License in Clinical Medicine in China and became a physician in internal medicine. With a great interest in disease prevention and health promotion, she decided to pursue a career in public health. She received a master’s degree in public health education from UNCG where she concentrated in community health. In August, 2007, she began pursuing her doctorate in public health education at UNCG and currently serves as a research assistant within that department.Since 2006, she has had increased exposure with immigrant and refugee populations. In 2006-2007, she designed and conducted a needs assessment for investigating the mental health needs of the refugees living in the Glen Haven Apartment Complex. In collaboration with the CNNC she is seeking funding which may enable her and her partners to develop an intervention program for reducing refugees’ risk factors for mental disorders. This intervention includes mental health support group discussions, educational workshops, and mental health screening and referrals. At the beginning of 2008, the program received the CHIF grant from Moses Cone Wesley Long Foundation. Currently, the program is at its planning stage and will be implemented in the spring of 2009.
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.
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