I currently use large-scale administrative data & quantitative methods to examine the prevalence of adverse birth outcomes among South Asian, MENA (Middle Eastern North African), and African Muslim immigrant mothers. I am interested in how and why race, religion, and nativity intersect to shape health outcomes among Muslim immigrants in the US. I also explore how the local sociopolitical climate is related to poorer birth outcomes among Muslim immigrants.

My research & training has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, & the National Institutes of Health. My research has been published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Social Science & Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, & Social Problems.

I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2024. At Carolina, I was a T32 Biosocial Fellow at the Carolina Population Center.  I spent Spring 2023 in Washington D.C. as a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, where I worked closely with the Committee on Populations and the Committee on National Statistics.