Human Development and Family Sciences

Dr. Marketa Burnett is currently an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences & Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research strives to disrupt deficit-based narratives of Black youth and Black families and instead center their strengths, resilience, and resistance. Incorporating qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches, Dr. Burnett explores how Black family processes mitigate the effects of educational inequality on Black girls’ identity development and academic persistence through cultural assets and strategies. In her work, she intentionally partners with Black girls and families in the co-construction of knowledge to accurately represent their stories in a world that has historically excluded them.

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., Yale School of Public Health

Topic: The Impact of Neocolonialism on Global, Maternal, and Child Health

November 14, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx

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Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion track at the Yale School of Public Health. He is the PI of the Yale-Griffin CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC). His global public health nutrition and food security research program, supported with over $90 million in extramural funds, has contributed to improvements in breastfeeding and other maternal, infant and young child nutrition outcomes, iron deficiency anemia among infants, household food security, and early childhood development. He has co-led innovative mixed-methods implementation studies assessing the impact of community health worker person centered interventions on breastfeeding, type-2 diabetes, post-partum hypertension and mental health outcomes among vulnerable communities. He has published over 350 research articles. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (elected in 2019).