Mienah Z Sharif
Biographic Data
| ID | 905110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mienah Z Sharif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mienah Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharif |
| SIGNATURE | SHARIF M Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8664-547X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Burden of Witnessing
Incarceration and the Health of Older Black Women and Men
Defining what’s at stake
The increasing efforts among public health researchers to examine the connections between police violence and health outcomes has resulted in growing discoveries about the implications for both direct and vicarious exposure as well as disparities by race and ethnicity. To date, the conceptualization of police violence and health has largely focused on single causes and/or mechanisms at one point in time and focused on individuals most proximal to…
Will a Rising Tide Sink All Boats? Examining the Unequal Distribution and Health Impact of Extreme Weather Events
Background: Climate change is intensifying and poses an increased threat to health. However, limited attention has been paid to the social patterning of exposure to extreme weather events, specifically among socially marginalized communities such as people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, those in rural areas, and racialized minorities. Methods: Data from the 2023 California Health Interview Survey, a survey of California adults, were used to exa…
Evaluating the Implementation and Outcomes of a Community‐Based Doula Program in Washington State
Background Community‐based doulas, who provide nonclinical perinatal support and are often from the same communities as the families they serve, are increasingly recognized as a strategy to ameliorate racialized perinatal health inequities. However, little is known about the successful implementation and sustainability of community‐based doula programs. Methods Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, we examined the implementation a…
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health eq…
Rapid Assessment of Covid Evidence (Race)
Much has been written in the Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (RACE) series about the COVID-19 pandemic’s collateral consequences and disproportionate impact on Black and brown people, the working class, and the poor. With this final issue of the series, we review our efforts and the reasons for embarking on this work, lessons learned, and future directions. With over 10,500,000 children1 having lost primary caretakers during the pandemic and w…
They Don’t Care If We Live or Die”
Historically, the US immigration system (ie, institutions, agencies, and laws) has served the goals and principles of white supremacy through its treatment of globally displaced people and this appears to have continued through the COVID pandemic. Yet, the implications for immigrant health are not routinely addressed in mainstream public health discourse, and especially so in regard to public health disasters. This study conducted a series of foc…
Neighbourhood-level policing as a racialised gendered stressor
BACKGROUND: Most studies capturing the health effects of police violence focus on directly impacted individuals, but a burgeoning field of study is capturing the indirect, community-level health effects of policing. Few empirical studies have examined neighbourhood-level policing, a contextual and racialised gendered stressor, in relation to preterm birth risk among Black and other racially minoritised people. METHODS: We spatially linked individ…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises
The potential for surveillance systems to compromise the health and well-being of racialized and/or vulnerable populations has been understudied. This project developed and piloted a scoring system to accomplish this equity-based imperative. The nobler pursuits of public health to improve the health for all must be reconciled with these potential harms
Barely Tweeting and Rarely About Racism
Concerns about racism and inequities in COVID-19 vaccination continue on Twitter, but SHDs rarely tweet about them. This strikes a worrisome chord of disconnection from the science linking health inequities to racism
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
Abortion Criminalization
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…
Integrated Methods for Applying Critical Race Theory to Qualitative Covid-19 Equity Research
These novel approaches provide an effective model for community-engaged qualitative research during a pandemic
Social Patterning of Racial Discrimination Among a Diverse Sample of School-Aged Children in Australia
The association between experiences of religious discrimination, social-emotional and sleep outcomes among youth in Australia
Religious discrimination is an understudied form of social disadvantage that has implications for adolescents' development, health and well-being. Conclusion: More programs, particularly in the school-context, address religious-based discrimination may reduce inequities in health
When Is Hope Enough? Hopefulness, Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Allostatic Load
Hopefulness is associated with better health and may be integral for stress adaptation and resilience. Limited research has prospectively examined whether hopefulness protects against physiological dysregulation or does so similarly for U.S. whites, blacks and Hispanics. We examined the association between baseline hopefulness and future allostatic load using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 8,486) and assessed differences in this a…
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities: The Need for Critical Race Theory and Data Chandra L. Ford PhD, MPH, MLIS, and Mienah Z. Sharif PhD, MPH Affiliation The authors are with The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, Department of Commu…
Racial and Citizenship Disparities in Health Care Among Middle Eastern Americans
OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in health access and utilization among Middle Eastern American adults by White racial identity and citizenship. METHODS: Data from the 2011 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys (N=1013) and survey-weighted logistic regression analyses compare Middle Eastern immigrants by race and citizenship on access and utilization of health care in the United States. RESULTS: White respondents had 71% lower odds of delayin…
Engaging Community Networks to Improve Depression Services
A Health Profile and Overview of Healthcare Experiences of Cambodian American Refugees and Immigrants Residing in Southern California
Whole Person Care in Underresourced Communities
Depressed clients have multiple health and social needs, and program representatives in under-resourced communities understand the complexity of clients' needs. Agencies rely on needs assessment and referrals to meet their clients' needs, which enhances the importance of agency partnership in "whole person" initiatives. Our results illustrate agency capacity to adopt integrated care models that will address clients' multiple needs through multi-s…
Social Determinants of Health, Violent Radicalization, and Terrorism
Going flat
Objective To determine if the association between soda consumption and obesity is uniform among Asian-American population subgroups. Design We conducted multivariate logistic regression analyses on odds of being obese among seven Asian subgroups and by place of birth using data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey. Setting An omnibus population-based health survey. Subjects Non-institutionalized adults, aged 18 years or over, residing…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
Deconstructing family meals
Abortion Criminalization
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
An Implementation Evaluation of the Community Engagement and Planning Intervention in the CPIC Depression Care Improvement Trial
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities: The Need for Critical Race Theory and Data Chandra L. Ford PhD, MPH, MLIS, and Mienah Z. Sharif PhD, MPH Affiliation The authors are with The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, Department of Commu…
Integrated Methods for Applying Critical Race Theory to Qualitative Covid-19 Equity Research
These novel approaches provide an effective model for community-engaged qualitative research during a pandemic
An Implementation Evaluation of the Community Engagement and Planning Intervention in the CPIC Depression Care Improvement Trial
Black Lives Matter
The recent nonindictments of police officers who killed unarmed Black men have incited popular and scholarly discussions on racial injustices in our legal system, racialized police violence, and police (mis)conduct. What is glaringly absent is a public health perspective in response to these events. We aim to fill this gap and expand the current dialogue beyond these isolated incidents to a broader discussion of racism in America and how it affec…
Substantial improvements not seen in health behaviors following corner store conversions in two Latino food swamps
Results suggest limited effectiveness of food retail interventions on improving health behaviors. Future research should focus on other strategies to reduce community-level obesity
Social Determinants of Health, Violent Radicalization, and Terrorism
Going flat
Objective To determine if the association between soda consumption and obesity is uniform among Asian-American population subgroups. Design We conducted multivariate logistic regression analyses on odds of being obese among seven Asian subgroups and by place of birth using data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey. Setting An omnibus population-based health survey. Subjects Non-institutionalized adults, aged 18 years or over, residing…
A corner store intervention to improve access to fruits and vegetables in two Latino communities
Objective Investments have been made to alter the food environment of neighbourhoods that have a disproportionate number of unhealthy food venues. Corner store conversions are one strategy to increase access to fruits and vegetables (F&V). Although the literature shows modest success, the effectiveness of these interventions remains equivocal. The present paper reports on the evaluation of Proyecto MercadoFRESCO, a corner store conversion interve…
Deconstructing family meals
A Health Profile and Overview of Healthcare Experiences of Cambodian American Refugees and Immigrants Residing in Southern California
Whole Person Care in Underresourced Communities
Depressed clients have multiple health and social needs, and program representatives in under-resourced communities understand the complexity of clients' needs. Agencies rely on needs assessment and referrals to meet their clients' needs, which enhances the importance of agency partnership in "whole person" initiatives. Our results illustrate agency capacity to adopt integrated care models that will address clients' multiple needs through multi-s…
When Is Hope Enough? Hopefulness, Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Allostatic Load
Hopefulness is associated with better health and may be integral for stress adaptation and resilience. Limited research has prospectively examined whether hopefulness protects against physiological dysregulation or does so similarly for U.S. whites, blacks and Hispanics. We examined the association between baseline hopefulness and future allostatic load using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 8,486) and assessed differences in this a…
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities
Arabs, Whiteness, and Health Disparities: The Need for Critical Race Theory and Data Chandra L. Ford PhD, MPH, MLIS, and Mienah Z. Sharif PhD, MPH Affiliation The authors are with The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, Department of Commu…
Racial and Citizenship Disparities in Health Care Among Middle Eastern Americans
OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in health access and utilization among Middle Eastern American adults by White racial identity and citizenship. METHODS: Data from the 2011 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys (N=1013) and survey-weighted logistic regression analyses compare Middle Eastern immigrants by race and citizenship on access and utilization of health care in the United States. RESULTS: White respondents had 71% lower odds of delayin…
Engaging Community Networks to Improve Depression Services
Social Patterning of Racial Discrimination Among a Diverse Sample of School-Aged Children in Australia
The association between experiences of religious discrimination, social-emotional and sleep outcomes among youth in Australia
Religious discrimination is an understudied form of social disadvantage that has implications for adolescents' development, health and well-being. Conclusion: More programs, particularly in the school-context, address religious-based discrimination may reduce inequities in health
Barely Tweeting and Rarely About Racism
Concerns about racism and inequities in COVID-19 vaccination continue on Twitter, but SHDs rarely tweet about them. This strikes a worrisome chord of disconnection from the science linking health inequities to racism
Attitudes and beliefs about family and domestic violence in faith‐based communities
Family and domestic violence (FDV) is a major social, economic and health issue that is associated with a range of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Religion and faith are powerful and influential in shaping the lives of many individuals and societies, in addition to the social practices, norms and structures that are significant in understanding and responding to FDV. This study examines the influence of religious beliefs and val…
Abortion Criminalization
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…
Integrated Methods for Applying Critical Race Theory to Qualitative Covid-19 Equity Research
These novel approaches provide an effective model for community-engaged qualitative research during a pandemic
An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises
The potential for surveillance systems to compromise the health and well-being of racialized and/or vulnerable populations has been understudied. This project developed and piloted a scoring system to accomplish this equity-based imperative. The nobler pursuits of public health to improve the health for all must be reconciled with these potential harms
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health eq…
Rapid Assessment of Covid Evidence (Race)
Much has been written in the Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (RACE) series about the COVID-19 pandemic’s collateral consequences and disproportionate impact on Black and brown people, the working class, and the poor. With this final issue of the series, we review our efforts and the reasons for embarking on this work, lessons learned, and future directions. With over 10,500,000 children1 having lost primary caretakers during the pandemic and w…
They Don’t Care If We Live or Die”
Historically, the US immigration system (ie, institutions, agencies, and laws) has served the goals and principles of white supremacy through its treatment of globally displaced people and this appears to have continued through the COVID pandemic. Yet, the implications for immigrant health are not routinely addressed in mainstream public health discourse, and especially so in regard to public health disasters. This study conducted a series of foc…
Neighbourhood-level policing as a racialised gendered stressor
BACKGROUND: Most studies capturing the health effects of police violence focus on directly impacted individuals, but a burgeoning field of study is capturing the indirect, community-level health effects of policing. Few empirical studies have examined neighbourhood-level policing, a contextual and racialised gendered stressor, in relation to preterm birth risk among Black and other racially minoritised people. METHODS: We spatially linked individ…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
Medicine (22 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Public health (15 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (13 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Health equity (9 works) · Racism (9 works)