Rate My Professor Louis Marcelin

Marcelin serves as Principal Investigator on a major grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse to implement Culturally Modified Family Based Therapy for Haitian youth and families in Miami. This interdisciplinary project, involving collaborators from the University of Miami and the University of South Florida, aims to identify and decrease risk factors while strengthening protective factors for healthy development among Haitian youth aged 13 to 17. He received a Spencer Fellowship for his research on the socio-cultural costs of pursuing higher education for women in Haiti. Key publications include "Differences and Barriers of Haitian and Haitian Immigrant Children with Sickle Cell Disease" (2025), "Higher Education, Human Development and Growing Inequality in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Haiti" (2024), "The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move" (2023), "Implementation of hospital-based sickle cell newborn screening and follow-up programs in Haiti" (2023), and "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Haiti's Changing Remittance Landscape" (2022). His work has accumulated over 1,450 citations. Marcelin teaches courses such as advanced medical anthropology, issues in health disparities, and theories of kinship and family.