Brenes, Francisco Graduate Faculty

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biography

  • Dr. Francisco Brenes’s research program focuses on psychiatric and behavioral health disparities, suicide, and the role of spirituality and herbal medicines in diverse and vulnerable communities, especially among undocumented immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced individuals. Dr. Brenes’s research promotes an understanding of the psychosocial and behavioral health challenges encountered among underserved populations. Effective strategies can be developed to support mental health care in vulnerable communities by examining the psychosocial stressors these groups encounter. His research benefits diverse ethnic groups, vulnerable children and families, as well as underserved populations.

research interests

  • - Spirituality in psychiatry and behavioral health
    - Suicide
    - Immigrant mental health
    - Psychosocial and behavioral health disparities
    - Stigma of mental illness
    - Cultural diversity in psychiatry
    - Access to psychosocial and behavioral health care
    - Social determinants of mental health (SoDMH)
    - Help-seeking behaviors
    - Epidemiology
    - Social epidemiology
    - Poverty
    - Refugees
    - Indigenous people
    - Asylum seekers
    - Displaced individuals
    - Undocumented immigrants

selected scholarly works & creative activities

full name

  • Francisco Brenes

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