Dr. Lauren Brookman-Frazee is a close collaborator and a co-mentor to trainees who work on 4KEEPS and related projects. Dr. Brookman-Frazee is Co-Principal Investigator on 4KEEPS and Principal Investigator on the TEAMS Project along with Dr. Aubyn Stahmer at UC Davis. Lauren is the developer of the AIM HI intervention for children with autism and is a Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. She is also the Associate Director of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, Research Director at the Autism Discovery Institute at Rady Children’s Hospital, and Co-Director of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. How does she do it? She is amazing!
Dr. Miya Barnett is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara where she runs the PADRES Lab and the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Clinic. Dr. Barnett is an alumnae of the 4KEEPS Project and she continues to collaborate with the CARE Lab on studies leveraging implementation science to address mental health service disparities for ethnic minority children and families. Miya is the Principal Investigator of a grant from NIMH to examine a strategy for mobilizing lay health workers to increase the reach of PCIT for underserved Latinx communities.
Drs. Stacey Doan, Joey Fung, and Farzana Saleem are all collaborators on Project STRIVE (STudents RIsing aboVE). It is wonderful to work with a team of women faculty of color on this project where we each bring different areas of experience including developmental health psychology (Stacey Doan, Claremont McKenna College), mindfulness intervention (Joey Fung, Fuller Theological Seminary), and racial socialization processes in schools (Farzana Saleem, Stanford University). It’s a dream team working on a passion project investigating ways to disrupt the drivers of racial health inequities among high achieving BIPOC youth.