Meet Our Team
Doctoral Candidate Lacey Craker is a PhD candidate in the Prevention Science and Community Health program. She received her Bachelor's of Science in Human Biology and Master of Public Health from Brown University. Lacey's research interests are centered on the development of culturally relevant social network- and game-based approaches to improve engagement in biomedical HIV prevention services among communities disproportionately impacted by HIV. She is also interested in applying implementation science frameworks to identify effective strategies that promote access, uptake, adherence, and sustainment of HIV prevention services among racial and ethnic minority and sexual minority men.
Lacey Craker, M.P.H.
Doctoral Candidate Kyle Self is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program in the Department of Education and Psychological Studies at the University of Miami and joined Dr. Kanamori's lab in June 2021. He has a bachelor’s degree in International Business and Spanish from High Point University. Since graduating in 2014, Kyle has worked in health psychology research and research administration at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the San Francisco VA Healthcare System with a focus on motivational interviewing, opioid use, and improving access and quality of care for people who are underserved by healthcare systems. Kyle's current research interests include using culturally-adapted motivational interviewing to improve participant experiences in HIV prevention research and developing community-based participatory research approaches to implementation of HIV prevention projects.
Kyle Self, B.S.
Doctoral Candidate Lilliana Vilchez is a Latinx doctoral student in Prevention Science and Community Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Before beginning her doctoral training, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Lynn University and then went on to receive a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Miami. During her master's capstone, Lilliana conducted a social network-based analysis to understand the impact of social support indicators and diagnosis-related advice seeking among hypertensive and diabetic patients from a small medical center in Nicaragua. She also served as a research assistant in the Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension in the Department of Medicine, where she assisted in the research process of the analysis of longitudinal data regarding cardiovascular health and the prevalence of minority health disparities. Lilliana's research interests are primarily focused on the prevention of chronic illnesses in the Latinx community through community-based interventions and social network analysis.
Lilliana Vilchez, M.P.H.
