Hospital, Michelle
- Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics , Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work

Overview
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Dr. Michelle Hospital is the Associate Director of Research and Development of FIU’s Community-Based Research Institute (CBRI). She also currently serves as a co-leader of South Florida’s first Health Disparities Research Center at a Minority Institution (RCMI) from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). She graduated from Florida International University with a doctoral degree in Applied Life-Span Developmental Psychology. She received an M.S. in Counseling Psychology at FIU and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Miami with a concentration in Accounting. She is also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida (LMHC License # MH 9226). Dr. Hospital completed her Post-Doctoral training in advanced statistical analyses including Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Growth Curve Modeling (GCM) as well as national weighted longitudinal datasets. Dr. Hospital also currently serves as the Chair of the FIU Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Dr. Hospital has served as a co-investigator for over 10 NIH and other federally funded grants including multiple R01 randomized clinical trials (RCTs). She has served as the primary internal evaluator for a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. She has extensive experience conducting school and community-based prevention research. Dr. Hospital and her colleagues at CBRI have been awarded more than $50 million in extramural grant funding from federal agencies (e.g., NIDA, NIAAA, NIMHD and SAMHSA) and other private foundations (e.g., Aetna Foundation and Ware Foundation).
Dr. Hospital is a first generation Hispanic, fully fluent in Spanish, and has a particular interest in working on health disparities research. Her clinical and research interests have been primarily centered on the reduction of risk behaviors and the promotion of well-being among adolescent and young adult diverse populations. She has served as the principal investigator of multiple funded community-based research studies evaluating the impact of positive youth development programs (e.g., music education, mindfulness, yoga and equine facilitated psychotherapy) among at-risk urban youth.
Dr. Hospital has mentored, trained and supervised dozens of undergraduate, Masters, and Doctoral students as well as Post-Doctoral Fellows from various disciplines including Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, Nursing, Biology, Dietetics and Nutrition and Women and Gender Studies.
research interests
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Structural Equation Modeling, Weighted Data, Data Analysis for Intervention Studies, Health Disparities, Youth Risk Behavior
Program Evaluation
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2022Implementation of a brief motivational intervention for alcohol and other drug using Latinx college studentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2090258 Web of Science: 000823618500001
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2022Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary impact of mindfulness-based yoga among Hispanic/Latinx adolescentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2021.03.002 Web of Science: 000803721500009
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2022A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Trusted Sources of Information among Racial and Ethnic Minorities in South FloridaFull Text via DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10040545 Web of Science: 000785021300001
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2022Virtual town halls addressing vaccine hesitancy among racial/ethnic minorities: Preliminary findingsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2021.11.005 Web of Science: 000754049200051
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2020Evaluating Research Centers in Minority Institutions: Framework, Metrics, Best Practices, and ChallengesFull Text via DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17228373 Web of Science: 000594712700001
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2019Hispanic Students' Perceptions About HIV/STI Testing and Prevention: A Mixed-Methods Study in a Hispanic-Serving UniversityFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1524839918801590 Web of Science: 000483669100014
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2019Transitions in drinking behaviors across the college years: A latent transition analysisFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.12.021 Web of Science: 000468708800019
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2018Music Education as a Path to Positive Youth Development: An El Sistema-Inspired ProgramFull Text via DOI: 10.5195/jyd.2018.572 Web of Science: 000453324400010
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2016Developing an SMS Intervention for the Prevention of Underage Drinking: Results From Focus GroupsFull Text via DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2015.1073325 Web of Science: 000370567500003
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2015Pathways to Drinking Among Hispanic/Latino Adolescents: Perceived Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Peer AffiliationsFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2014.993787 Web of Science: 000360550200005
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2014A Randomized Controlled Trial of Guided Self-Change With Minority AdolescentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0036939 Web of Science: 000345452900017
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2014Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence as a Mediating Factor Between Psychosocial Variables and HIV Viral LoadFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2014.08.001 Web of Science: 000344420100017
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2014Exploring substance use and HIV treatment factors associated with neurocognitive impairment among people living with HIV/AIDSFull Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00105 Web of Science: 000498911400101
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2014Maternal and peer influences on drinking among Latino college studentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.10.007 Web of Science: 000329560300034
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2013Mechanisms of Association Between Paternal Alcoholism and Abuse of Alcohol and Other Illicit Drugs Among AdolescentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/1067828X.2012.730363 Web of Science: 000322634900004
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2010Motivation for reducing substance use among minority adolescents Targets for interventionFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2010.07.008 Web of Science: 000284182100010
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2008Exploding Stereotypes and Moving Foward: LGBT Research has a New LookFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9355-5
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Book Chapter
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2016Friendships Across Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation. 75-92.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190222024.003.0005
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Book Review
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2008
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2008
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Conference
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2017
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2016Lesbians Over Sixty: Newer Every Day. 37-37.Web of Science: 000413720400181
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2016
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2014A LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. 289A-289A.Web of Science: 000337523701352
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2013
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2012
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2011A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF SCHOOL-BASED GUIDED SELF-CHANGE WITH MINORITY ADOLESCENTS. 143A-143A.Web of Science: 000290804301026
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2007Psychosocial development and adolescent females' alcohol and other drug use. 46A-46A.Web of Science: 000246959600150
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Conference Poster
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Other Scholarly Work
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2015COMPARISON OF PROGNOSTIC FACTORS BETWEEN HISPANIC AND NON-HISPANIC ADOLESCENTS WITH EATING DISORDERS. S89-S90.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.179 Web of Science: 000375069900175
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2014INTIMATE PIERCINGS AMONG MINORITY LATE ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS. S87-S88.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.10.187 Web of Science: 000330307800169
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
Research
principal investigator on
- Evaluation of the Gang Alternative Minority Violence Prevention Project 88 (MVP 88) awarded by U.S. Public Health Service 2017 - 2021
- The Transformative Experience of Youth Engagement with Music: An Evaluation of the Dranoff PIANO SLAM awarded by Ware Foundation 2017 - 2020
- Expanding Yoga to Low Income, Racial/Ethnic Minority High School Students awarded by Aetna Foundation 2016 - 2019
- Examining Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) as a Complement to Standard Care for Foster Youth in Residential Treatment awarded by Ware Foundation 2016 - 2018
- Enhancing Resilience among At-Risk Minority Youth through Music Education: An Evaluation of ESMIA (aka, Project TREBLE) Resilience among At Risk Minority Youth through Music Education: An Evaluation of ESMIA (El Sistema awarded by Ware Foundation 2013 - 2017
- A Longitudinal Study of Parent Communication with College Students about Alcohol awarded by Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2011 - 2016
co-principal investigator on
- Miami-Dade Partnership for Preventing Health Risks among Young Adults awarded by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services 2014 - 2017
- Brief Intervention for Marijuana Use among Latino Youth awarded by National Institute on Drug Abuse 2009 - 2011
subproject principal investigator on
investigator on
- Community Partnership For Preventing Health Risks Among Florida Urban American Indian & Alaska Native Young Adults awarded by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services 2020 - 2024
- Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Reducing Recidivism Through Systems Improvement (Evaluation) awarded by U.S. Department of Justice 2020 - 2023
- Year 2: External evaluation of Closing the Gap (CTG), the Florida Department of Health's grant program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in in Florida awarded by Florida Department of Health 2021 - 2022
- FIU Center for Reducing Health Disparities in Substance Abuse & HIV in South Florida awarded by Minority Health and Health Disparities 2018 - 2022
- FIU Center for Reducing Health Disparities in Substance Abuse & HIV in South Florida awarded by Minority Health and Health Disparities 2017 - 2022
- External evaluation of Closing the Gap (CTG), the Florida Department of Health's grant program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in in Florida awarded by Florida Department of Health 2021
- FIU-MDCPS Partnership for Preventing Health among Youth awarded by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services 2015 - 2021
- Community Partnership for Preventing Health Risks among Florida Urban American Indian & Alaskan Native Young Adults awarded by Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services 2018 - 2020
- Facilitating Self-Change for Adolescent Alcohol Problems awarded by Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2012 - 2017
- Brief Intervention for Substance Using Native Youth awarded by National Institute on Drug Abuse 2011 - 2017
Contact
full name
- Michelle Hospital
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-9607 (confirmed)
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