Laelia Benoit, MD, PhD

In Public Health and Sociology in France; MA in Sociology and Public health policies; MS in Transcultural Psychology; MS Molecular Biology from France. Dr. Laelia Benoit has published 43 peer-reviewed publications including 6 first-authored publications and 13 senior- authored publications. She is the creator and director of GroundedLab, a qualitative methods and Grounded Theory workshop for healthcare professionals. She has provided international consultations in qualitative methods for large corporations and universities. At Yale, she was initially awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Andres Martin and is now the co-director of QUALab, a Qualitative and Mixed Methods Lab at Yale with Andres Martin, MD, Ph.D. She is a leader in research examining eco-anxiety among children and has also done seminal work examining school refusal. Laelia Benoit is of African and Hispanic descent growing up in France. She also speaks five languages fluently (English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese). Her research training during Solnit in Years 5 and 6 will be generously supported by the Yale International Physician-Scientist Resident and Fellow Research Award from the Yale School of Medicine Office of Physician-Scientist Development.