CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)

PRESENTERS:

Teresa Chahine, Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management

Teresa Chahine is a Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management, and faculty director of the Social Innovation Initiative at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. where she teaches in the Program on Entrepreneurship. She is the author of Social Entrepreneurship: Building Impact Step by Step and hosts the Impact & Innovation podcast. Teresa earned her doctorate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where her research characterized sociodemographic and geographic variability in environmental exposures and health risks for community based risk assessment. She launched the first venture philanthropy organization in her home country of Lebanon, providing tailored financing and critical management support to social enterprises serving marginalized populations through education and job creation for youth and women. Since joining the faculty at Yale, she formed a research collaboration with Havenly, a local social enterprise with the mission of building community power for refugee and migrant women. This paper is a result of that collaboration.

Rei Marshall, MPH/MBA Candidate, Yale School of Public Health

Rei Marshall is a MPH/MBA candidate at Yale studying health policy, and serves as a Research Assistant on the Havenly collaboration. She leads the Public Health Innovation Exchange, an incubator and learning lab for public health-focused social enterprises housed at TSAI City. She also works as the Editor-in-Chief at the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, a publication focused on healthcare governance & the ethical and legal implications of policy changes in the United States. This summer, Rei worked as a Health Investment Case fellow at the United Nations Development Programme, where she worked with country offices in LMICs and MICs to mobilize non-communicable disease (NCD) policies that protect population health and minimize national healthcare costs long-term, including universal primary healthcare and early chronic disease screening.

QRDG Overview:

The goal of the Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG) is to provide opportunities for individuals involved in qualitative or mixed-methods research to meet regularly to discuss the qualitative research process and potentially problem-solve issues that may arise when engaged in qualitative research. Discussion topics include, but are not limited to: logistics, data management, analysis, dissemination, role of the researcher, and ethics. It is intended as a venue for discussing research in progress and new or relevant literature on qualitative methods and practice as well as to create networking opportunities and foster research collaborations. CIRA's Dissemination Implementation Science and Methods (DISM) Core member, Lauretta Grau, PhD, is coordinating the meetings. She can be reached at lauretta.grau@yale.edu.