Heide Castañeda, Ph.D., University of South Florida

Topic: Health Care Access for Immigrant Populations 

September 12, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx

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Heide Castañeda is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include critical border studies, political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, focusing on the U.S./Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco.

She is the author of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (NYU Press, 2018). Her latest book is Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2023).

Dr. Castañeda has also published dozens of research articles on migration and health care access for immigrant populations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

In Recognition of World Mental Health Month

Shalini Sivathasan, Ph.D., Boston College
Topic: Effects of Multiple Minority Identities on Emotion Regulation, Mental Health Outcomes, and Access to Care
October 10, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx

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Dr. Shalini Sivathasan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department at Boston College. She completed her Ph.D. in School/Applied Child Psychology at McGill University in Canada and an APA-accredited clinical internship in Health Service Psychology (Pediatrics) at the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Sivathasan is trained as a child psychologist, having specialized in psychodiagnostic, psychoeducational, and early autism assessment, as well as in cognitive-behavioral interventions for diverse child and adolescent populations. She then gained additional training in mental health and suicide risk assessments among autistic adults through a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.