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Hana Daher

Doctoral Student
Research Assistant
Research Associate at ​Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI)

Contact

Tate-Turner-Kuralt

402F

hdaher@unc.edu

https://gsdi.unc.edu/

Daher is an international scholar with more than a decade of experience in the field of social work. While attending college in Brazil, Daher earned a junior research scholarship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) at the research group of Social Security and Labor at the University of Brasilia. Daher, who earned her master’s degree in Social and Cultural Psychiatry at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, began working for the Government of Brasilia in 2009 as a clinical social worker with a specialty in homelessness services. Three years later she was hired as a consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation to help enhance the capacity of more than 5,500 Brazilian cities and villages to administer the Bolsa Familia Program. Daher has lectured at various institutions, including the Catholic University of Brasilia, the University of Coimbra, and the University of Brasilia. Since 2022, she’s worked for the research group “Pesquisar SUAS” to develop research about the data system of social assistance in Brasilia. Daher, whose research interests include homelessness, social justice, public policing, and mental health for the underprivileged, is now working under the guidance of Associate Professor Hsun-Ta Hsu.

Primary Program

Doctoral Program

Research and Professional Interests

Homelessness, Housing Instability, Social Justice, Mental Health, Social Policy