Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Sarah Elizabeth Neville, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University School of Public Health and the Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Sarah‘s area of study is orphans and vulnerable children in low- and middle-income countries. She researches family strengthening and mental health interventions with the aim of helping children reunify with families after living in institutions and  prevent vulnerable children entering institutions in the first place. She received her PhD in Social Work from Boston College, where she conducted her dissertation on the subjective well-being of children reunifying with family after living in residential care institutions in Kenya. She has also worked and conducted research in the United States, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guatemala, Nigeria, and Zambia. Sarah is a certified Practitioner of Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), and she received her BA and MA in Child Development from Tufts University.