Research interests center around working with children, adolescents/youth and families impacted by poverty and poor mental health functioning. Before joining the PhD Program, Flavia worked as the Head of Operations and Research Coordinator at Washington University’s International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) Field Offices in Uganda for eight years. In this capacity, Flavia implemented multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies in Uganda—funded to ICHAD. These studies, include Suubi+Adherence (R01HD074949)—focused on treatment and adherence for children living with HIV/AIDS (https://ichad.wustl.edu/suubiadherence); Suubi4Her (R01MH113486)—focused on keeping young girls from poor families in school by addressing their economic needs and offering them with psychosocial and emotional support (https://ichad.wustl.edu/suubi4her/); and Bridges to the Future (R01HD070727-01), a family-based economic empowerment intervention focused on in-school orphaned and vulnerable adolescents (https://ichad.wustl.edu/bridges-to-the-future/). A widely published young scholar with publications in well-respected peer review journals, including The Lancet, Journal of adolescent health, and PLos One