Child Mental Health Disparities and Development Group
Location and Contact Information
Principal Investigator
The Child Mental Health Disparities and Development Group, lead by Cristiane Duarte, PhD, MPH, uses state-of-the-art sampling, recruitment/retention, and culturally appropriate assessment methodologies to generate knowledge of relevance to diverse, often underserved, and understudied populations in the United States and abroad.
At the core of our research program is the Boricua Youth Study, a longitudinal study that seeks to understand the lived experiences of about 2,500 Puerto Rican children in the South Bronx, New York, and the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. As the Boricua Youth Study children grow up and become young adults, Dr. Duarte and her team are now focusing on the next generation, as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
Lab Members
Cristiane Duarte, PhD, MPH
- Director, Child Mental Health Disparities and Development Group
Dr. Cristiane Duarte is the director of the Child Mental Health Disparities and Development Group. She is also the Lambert Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)/Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and co-director of both the Center for Integenerational Pscyhiatry and the NewYork-Presbyterian Youth Anxiety Center in Washington Heights.
Dr. Duarte's research is based on innovative population-based studies about the development of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Duarte’s research group uses state-of-the-art sampling, recruitment/retention, and culturally appropriate assessment methodologies to generate knowledge of relevance to diverse, often underserved, and understudied populations in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Duarte is an active faculty member at CUMC and NYSPI. She is part of the leadership teams of three research training programs in psychiatry: Translational Child Psychiatry, Global Mental Health NIH T32 programs, and a Fogarty International program in Mozambique. She is also a collaborator of the Mailman School of Public Health Substance Abuse Epidemiology training program and a member of the NYSPI Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Maria A. Ramos-Olazagasti, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
