Zahra joined the Public Health doctoral program in spring 2017. She holds an MD degree from Tehran University and earned her MPH degree from the University of San Francisco after moving to the United States. Zahra’s primary field of research focused on migrant and refugee health. She combines academia with research and community work, focusing on improving refugees’ health outcomes. She is currently looking at the intersection of forced migration, gender, and reproductive health and aiming to target health disparities in women’s reproductive health outcomes through increasing Afghan refugee women’s reproductive health literacy and autonomy.
Zahra currently is in her last year in the public health program, and as a teaching fellow, she is teaching upper-undergraduate courses like Migration health and Global health over the summer.
