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2024 CHNF Award of ASIA
Mariela Degano, an educator from Rosario, Argentina has been awarded the 2024 Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Allied Health Professional Research Award of ASIA. Degano will receive $30,000 to fund her study, “A Pilot study of family system intervention for individuals with SCI and their families in Spanish speaking countries of Latin America.”
The Allied Health Professional Research Award of ASIA* is to encourage clinicians with an interest but limited experience in research to be mentored by an experienced researcher to develop a study from proposal to completion. Clinicians at the Master’s or Clinical Doctorate level are eligible for this one-year award.
Mariela Degano graduated with a degree in Education for Health in the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina. She also specialized in the University of Gran Rosario (UGR) doing a Postgraduate in Sexuality with a Perspective in Functional Diversity/Disability. She has a Diploma in Comprehensive Sexual Education at UNSAM (National University of San Martín) Buenos Aires. She created a project called “Accompanying Sexualities” about the experience of Sexualities in People with disabilities, “The Resource is You” about the educational approaches of Comprehensive Sexual Education and the “Mxjeres” proposal designed as social interventions with a Gender Perspective in Women with some condition of disability. She currently coordinates experiential workshops in family contexts and advice in TEC (Therapeutic Educational Centers), Rehabilitation Centers and Day Centers together with professionals and people with disabilities with two biographical work proposals: “From Stigma to Enjoyment” and “Let’s Rehabilitate Desire” (Re-education of sexed bodies). She is also the co-creator of “Sexabilidad” a guide on the sexual empowerment of people with disabilities.
Degano was awarded the 2024 Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Allied Health Professional Research Award of ASIA during the ASIA Annual Scientific Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
*Funding provided by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation