Biography: | Madhuvanti (Maddy) Murphy is the Coordinator of Graduate Programmes in Public Health and a Lecturer in Public Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill. She holds an MPH from the University of Miami, and a Doctorate in Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences) from Columbia University in New York City. She is currently involved in teaching, research and curriculum development, and since joining the UWI faculty full-time in 2011 has contributed to the development of the Master of Public Health Programme.
Dr Murphy is a past recipient of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH/NIDA) pre-doctoral fellowship, and has been a co-investigator on more than 10 research grants, including two R01 grants funded by the NIH while an Assistant Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Her expertise as a qualitative researcher has led her to publish and present on a wide range of public health issues, including adolescent drug use prevention, breast cancer and social determinants of non-communicable diseases.
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Publications: | Selected Publications:
Murphy MM, Verjee MA, Bener A, Gerber LM. The hopeless age? A qualitative exploration of the experience of menopause in Arab women in Qatar. Climacteric. 2013 [epub ahead of print].
Blinder VS, Murphy MM, Vahdat LT, Gold HT, de Melo-Martin I, Hayes MK, Scheff RJ, Chuang E, Moore A, Mazumdar M. Employment after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Qualitative Study of Ethnically Diverse Urban Women. J Comm Health. 2012; 37(4):763-772.
Botvin GJ, Griffin KW, Murphy MM. Adolescent substance abuse prevention and cessation. In: M. Finkel editor. Perspectives in public health: Challenges for the 21st century. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers; 2010. P 287-306.
Nichols T, Mahadeo M, Bryant K, Botvin GJ. Examining Anger as a Predictor of Drug Use among Multi-Ethnic Middle-School Students. J Sch Health. 2008; 78(9):480-486.
Falkin G, Fryer CS, Mahadeo M. Smoking cessation and stress among teenagers. Qual Health Res. 2007; 17(6): 812-823.
Brown CR, Hambleton IR, Hercules SM, Alvarado M, Unwin N, Murphy MM, Harris EN, Wilks R, MacLeish M, Sullivan L, Sobers-Grannum N; U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR). Social determinants of breast cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review Int J Equity Health. 2017 Apr 5;16(1):60. doi: 10.1186/s12939-017-0540-z. Review.
Brown CR, Hambleton IR, Sobers-Grannum N, Hercules SM, Alvarado M, Unwin N, Harris EN, Wilks R, MacLeish M, Sullivan L, Murphy MM; U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR).Social Determinants of Depression in the Caribbean: A Systematic Review Annals of Global Health , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , 73 - 74 |