Fall 2024
Wynta Alexander will be presenting a poster at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, LA entitled, “Investigating Sex Differences in the Relations Between Parent/Guardian Promotion of Tobacco Abstinence, and Tobacco Abstinence, and Tobacco Use in a Nationally Representative Sample of Black Adolescents.”
Spring 2024
Nishanthi Anthonipillai will be presenting a poster at the American Psychological Association 2024 Convention in Seattle, WA entitled, “Culture Types and Mentalized Affectivity: Does culture type influence levels of identifying, processing, and expressing emotions?”
Zara Khan will be presenting a poster at the American Psychological Association 2024 Convention in Seattle, WA entitled “Shame and Dissociation Mediate the Link Between PTSD and Self-Concealment Among Sex-trafficked Women.”
Wynta Alexander will be presenting a poster at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) 2024 Scientific Meeting in Montreal, Canada entitled “Mental health and tobacco use initiation among a nationally representative sample of Black adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Congratulations to Nishanthi Anthonipillai for matching at Mt. Sinai/Adolescent Health Center for internship.
Congratulations to Zara Khan who recently received an award from the New York State Office of Mental Health via The Graduate Center’s Psychology Program for contributing to mental health research that benefits the New York population.
Fall 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Adriana Espinosa who was recently awarded a NIH supplement to a U54 CCNY-MSK partnership parent grant for a project entitled “Relative and intersectional analysis of social determinants of lung cancer risk among Black and Hispanic All of Us respondents.”