Rebecca Ford-Paz, PhD

Community, Population Health, and Outcomes
Clinical and Community Trials

Research Interests

  • Immigrant and Refugee Child Mental Health
  • Asylum Evaluation
  • Culturally Attuned Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions

Biography

  • Co-Director, Forensic Assessment for Immigration Relief (FAIR) Clinic, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Clinical Child Psychologist, The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Education and Background

  • Fellowship in Child/Adolescent Psychopathology, Brown Medical School, Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital 2006-2007
  • PhD and MA in Clinical Psychology, Child Subspecialty, DePaul University 2006
  • Internship in Clinical Psychology, Boston Consortium-Boston Medical Center & Boston VA Hospital 2005-2006
  • MA in Applied Psychology Columbia University Teachers College 2000
  • Diploma in Spanish Language and Culture, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1997
  • BA in Psychology, Northwestern University 1996
  • BM in Music Education, Northwestern University 1996

Publications

Mar. 13, 2023

Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism.

Jan. 31, 2022

Acceptability and initial promise of trainings for community stakeholders serving refugee and immigrant families.

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