Research Team

Mahnoor Ahmad, MAT

Principal Investigator and Doctoral Student Director of AMWELL Lab

Principal investigator and doctoral student director of the AMWELL Lab; fourth-year doctoral student in School Psychology at the University of Houston.

Interests: Risk and resilience factors, Substance use, Religiosity and spirituality, Immigrant parent/first-generation child relationships, Identity development, Community and social networks, Trauma, OCD and anxiety disorders, ADHD

Yara Cherif

Graduate Research Assistant

Master's student in clinical psychology at the University of Houston - Clear Lake and graduate research assistant with AMWELL.

Interests: Youth internalizing disorders, Emotion regulation, Addiction

Nuha Mansuri

Post-Bac Research Assistant

Recently completed her Bachelor's degree in Health from the University of Houston's College of Education and is interning as a research assistant for the AMWELL study.

Interests: Community health, Epidemiology

Ecenaz Yetkin

Undergraduate Research Intern

Senior at the University of Houston majoring in Public Health with a minor in Biology and undergraduate research intern with the AMWELL project.

Interests: Mental health, Health disparities, Community well-being

Wafia Rahman

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Senior at Texas A&M University majoring in Psychology and undergraduate research intern with the AMWELL project.

Interests: Mental health in adolescence and underrepresented communities, Substance abuse, Insomnia, Body dysmorphia

Umar Syed

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Undergraduate student at Lone Star College pursuing a degree in Psychology on the pre-medical track, with plans to transfer to the University of Houston.

Interests: Psychology, Mental health, Medicine

Bradley Smith, PhD

Faculty Director