This week we will be joined by Sameera Nayak (she/her).
Sameera is a PhD candidate in Population Health in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and a graduate researcher at the Institute for Health Equity & Social Justice Research at Northeastern University. Sameera has a background in Clinical Psychology, and she's a proud alumna of UCLA & Columbia University! Sameera's research is in social epidemiology, more specifically in the social & political determinants of health & health inequities. She uses quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand the health and experiences of women, children, and families. Sameera has conducted research globally in East Africa as well as domestically in the US. Sameera first came to the US in 2010 as an international student from India and has spent the last decade navigating the complicated US immigration system. On this week’s episode of Grad Chat, Sameera will discuss the challenges of navigating status during graduate school, the heterogeneity of immigrants in the US, the intersections of mental health & immigration, and how her own personal experiences catalyzed her interest in making immigration the focus of her research!
A full-text transcript of this episodes is available via google doc.
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