Keva Bethell
Allen Institute of Research & Training Bahamas
Biography
Keva Bethell is an avid researcher who grew up in Nassau, Bahamas. In 2008, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (with a minor in Biochemistry) from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2012, she earned her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Oklahoma, where she was inducted into the Xi chapter of Delta Omega Society, the public health honorary society. Her duties included abstracting Medical Examiner reports and entering data related to violent deaths into the National Violent Death Reporting System. She started working along with Dr. David Allen, in two months she collaborated with the Central Detective Unit to abstract all suicide cases that occurred in a 14 year period. Her report is now a published paper in the Global Journal of Human Social Sciences and her thematic analysis in the Emergency Medicine Open Access Journal. For the last two years, she has been the Director of Research for ‘The Family: People Helping People’ project, a community based free offering program group therapy in inner city communities. During her tenor, she has abstracted over 700 reports. She aspires to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology, she is a young lady of faith, and enjoys spending time with her family.