About Us
Leadership
Manisha Joshi, PhD MSPH MSW - Director
Dr. Manisha Joshi, Associate Professor of Social Work in College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the 911±¬ÁÏÍø (USF), has a PhD in Social 911±¬ÁÏÍølfare from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, MS in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MSW from the University of Delhi, India. Her interests include violence against women, adolescents and children around the globe, intimate partner violence experiences of immigrant women in the U.S., violence prevention programs, strategies, and policies.

Guitele J. Rahill, PhD LCSW - Associate Director
Dr. Guitele Rahill is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Work in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the 911±¬ÁÏÍø (USF), Senior Research Scientist in the USF College of Public Health Harrell Center, and Co-founder of SWIRL. She received her Ph.D. in Social 911±¬ÁÏÍølfare from Florida International University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her interests include syndemic interactions among traditional norms, health beliefs and practices, biopsychosocial conditions, geographical disasters, and structural violence, as they affect violence, psychological trauma, family system disruption.
