Washington University in St. Louis

Graduate Student, George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Public Health

PhD Candidate, Chancellor's Fellow

George Warren Brown School of Social Work

Thesis Title: Estimating the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorders and mental health problems among undocumented Mexican immigrants using the National Latino and Asian American Study

About

My name is Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen, and I am a PhD student at Washington University's Brown School.

I grew up in Hialeah, FL, practiced in San Francisco post-MSW, and now I am in Missouri. Definitely NOT a fan of winters in St. Louis! I began doctoral studies interested in conducting research on the mental health of youth in foster care, but I ended up switching gears somewhat.

My research interests include undocumented Mexican immigrant mental health; the so-called 'Latino immigrant paradox'; suicide prevention among Latino/a youth; substance abuse and HIV prevention among Latino/a youth; and methodological issues in cross-cultural psychiatric epidemiology.

I have a strong interest in quantitative methods, especially latent class or finite mixture models; models for the multiple imputation of missing data; latent variable modeling in general (EFA/CFA/SEM); measurement development and validation; and I enjoy analyzing complex survey data. I am very interested in enhancing my knowledge of quantitative methodology vis-a-vis prevention science.

I am a fan of Stata 12/SE, Mplus, Latent GOLD, and I am proficient in SAS.

What I plan to learn as soon as I have the time: R

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