Neena Abimbola Albarus

Job title: 
Ph.D. Student
Department: 
School of Social Welfare
Bio/CV: 

Neena Albarus (she/her) is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Master of Social Work from The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where she later instructed courses in the field of social work. Her research portfolio spans quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods, with a focus on structural violence, community development, substance use and the intersections of policy and public health in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Her dissertation explores interventions addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica. Neena is committed to using data to advance social interventions across the Caribbean and other regions.