Ph.D. Candidate, Public Health: Social & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. I am a Brown Muslim Woman who cares about promoting Muslim mental health and fostering community healing. I provide critical analysis to issues affecting marginalized populations through a lived experience perspective, which is fortified by my credentialed professional background. I am trained as social and behavioral scientist using public health approaches to understand how exposures to trauma and violence affect the mental health of oppressed populations. See https://www.amelianooroshiro.com for more about me.
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Sep. 10, 2021 2:49 pm
20 years post-9/11, the links between Islamophobia and Muslim American suicide remain unexplored
The victim of Islamophobic violence and survivor of a suicide attempt, guest columnist Amelia Noor-Oshiro is the first self-identifying Muslim American to receive NIH funding to conduct grassroots mental health research within the American Muslim community.
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Apr. 28, 2021 1:13 pm
Suicide is the leading cause of death for Asian American young adults. Why is no one talking about this?
"The reality is that white supremacy runs so deep in America that even reversing racism would not undo the disparities in health outcomes such as suicide," says guest columist Amelia Noor-Oshiro.