Education

PhD University of California Los Angeles, 2016
MPH University of California Los Angeles,
BA Economics, Government, Smith College,

Contact

mzsharif@uw.edu

Bio

Mienah Z. Sharif is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California - Berkeley in the School of Public Health - Division of Community Health Sciences. She takes a social justice, global and intersectional approach towards examining the nature and determinants of health inequities among racial and ethnic minority groups across the lifecourse. She is especially interested in addressing questions about the influence of structural factors, differential exposure to adverse social conditions and psychosocial factors on indicators of health and wellbeing across various life stages. She is currently extending her work on racism and discrimination to examine religious identity as a form of structural inequality via the racialization of religion. As a mixed-methods researcher, she prioritizes community-engaged research that aims to guide health and social policies addressing inequities.