Hafifa Siddiq,
PhD, MSN, MPH, RN
Health Services Researcher | Lecturer
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About Me
I am a community-engaged health services researcher and psychiatric registered nurse currently Assistant Professor at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) College of Nursing. My research aims to promote the mental health and wellbeing of medically-underserved populations, particularly immigrants and refugees, through community-partnered and policy-relevant research while mentoring future change agents from underrepresented minority backgrounds. I utilize a public health critical race praxis and highlight the structural determinants that perpetuate displacement and its health sequeale, locally and globally.
Research Interests
Education
- Social determinants of health
- Immigrant and refugee health
- Forced displacement
- Housing instability
- Mental health
- Trauma and Stress
Postdoc Fellow in Health Disparities and Health Policy Research, 2021
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD in Nursing, 2018
University of California, Los Angeles
MS in Nursing, 2013
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
BS in Community Health Education, 2010
California State University, Long Beach
Migrant Health Justice & Displacement ColLABorative
Our lab is dedicated to advancing research that promotes the mental health and wellbeing of medically underserved populations disproportionately suffering from war, violence, trauma, and other risk factors including housing instability. Based in South Los Angeles, we emphasize the role of migration, displacement, and housing instability as social determinants of health. Specifically, our research explores Adverse Migration Experiences (AMEs) like displacement and cumulative migration-related stress as key drivers of poor health outcomes. We prioritize community partnerships in both research and intervention development, recognizing them as essential to fostering health equity. Ultimately, we seek to develop community-engaged, policy-relevant research to better understand and addresses the impact of forced displacement.
FEATURED PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
Cultivating Healthy Aging among Immigrants (CHAI) Study
Adverse Migration Experiences (AMEs), Stress, and Wellbeing Study
COVID-19 Pandemic and Medically Underserved Communities
Access to Digital Mental Health Resources and Tele-Mental Health Services among Patients with Limited English Language Proficiency
Housing and Community Enviornmental Factors on Health and Health Services Use
Migrant Health Needs in the
Glo-Cal Setting: From Southern California to the US-Mexico Border
RESEARCH TEAM
Pomona Rae Siaotong, BS-C
REsearch coordinator
MARCIA MOLINA, MSN, CHES®
NURSING STUDENT
RESEARCH MENTEE
2023-present
CHRISTINA MARTINEZ, MSN
UHI SOAR
research MENTEE
2023-present
Cecille Navarro, DNP-C, MSN, RN
DNP STUDENT researchER
SENAIT TEKLEHAIMANOT, MPH
BIOSTATISTICIAN
ABDELKADER AWAD, BS, MS-C
MEDICAL STUDENT-2
RESEARCH MENTEE
ROYA ZAKI, BS
BIOMEDICAL sciences
RESEARCH MENTEE
2024-present
KENIA ROSALES
ESAR
RESEARCH MENTEE
2024-present
RECENT AND UPCOMING TALKS
“Displacement as a Social Determinant of Health: The Case of Older Adult Immigrants and Refugees from the MENA Region”
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science on
Feb 2, 2024
“Social Isolation and Social Cohesion on the Mental Health of Refugees”
University of California, Davis
on Feb 22, 2024
“Racism, Health Policy, and Immigrant and Refugee Health Justice”
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science on
March 5, 2024
2023 Select Publications
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Push to Promote and Include Nurses in Public Health Policy
American Journal of Public Health
Our partners/supporters and funders
UCLA-DANA Center for
neuroscience & society
Want to collaborate?
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