Dr. Carol Labor, DrPH, FAIPH

Dr. Carol Labor (Dr. Carol), DrPH, FAIPH, is an award-winning scholar-practitioner, global mental health expert, and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Wellness Institute. With more than two decades of experience across public health, organizational development, and behavioral health, she is widely recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS), trauma-informed care, organizational wellbeing, gender-based violence (GBV), and gender-specific empowerment. A certified trauma practitioner, master MHPSS trainer, and sought-after speaker and consultant, Dr. Carol works at the intersection of mental health, equity, and systems change to advance individual, collective, and workplace wellbeing globally.

Through the Women’s Wellness Institute, Dr. Carol designs and delivers evidence-based trainings, interactive workshops, employee dialogues, and confidential coaching that help organizations build supportive, trauma-informed cultures. Her work includes the development of culturally and linguistically responsive mental health and psychosocial integration programs for immigrant and refugee women and children from diverse global communities, including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Haiti, Ghana, Turkey, Syria, China, Jamaica, Mexico, and Iraq. Her research and advocacy are grounded in intersectionality, with a strong focus on race, health disparities, trauma, and GBV within multicultural and multilingual populations. Her seminal doctoral research examined pre- and post-migratory trauma among heterogeneous immigrant and refugee communities using the ADAPT model, followed by a gender-focused study on direct, indirect, and intergenerational trauma among women from multiple low- and middle-income countries.

A lifelong advocate and philanthropist, Dr. Carol founded the GIRLS! Project in 2008, a nonprofit initiative that provides books and social-emotional learning resources to girls in Sierra Leone, including those who are visually and hearing impaired. To date, the project has distributed more than 267,000 books and reached over 5,300 girls through education and empowerment workshops. Inspired by her own lived experience—including surviving a traumatic brain injury in early childhood and earning her doctorate in public health as a single mother—Dr. Carol’s work is deeply purpose-driven. She remains committed to expanding access to mental health and wellness services for women and communities worldwide, building sustainable systems of care that heal trauma and create lasting global impact.

• MENTAL HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE OF SPECIALIZATION
• HIV Workforce Certificate
• Mental Health First Aid (Adult)
• Mental Health First Aid (Youth)
• Sexual and Domestic Violence Response Team 40-Hour Training
• Narcan Overdose Prevention and Rescue
• Bilingual Domestic Violence Advocate Training
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate –University of Pennsylvania
• Mental Health First Aid Instructor 2017

• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority