Dr. Anne Saw of DePaul University, along with her collaborators Dr. Rohan Jeremiah of University of Illinois Chicago and Mr. Nasir bin Zakaria of the Rohingya Culture Center, were awarded seed funds from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to build the capacity of the community to engage in research on culturally responsive interventions to enhance mental health and well-being for Rohingya refugees in Chicago. The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic and religious minority who have endured systemic human rights abuses such as forced labor, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, and the denial of access to health care and education in their native Myanmar. This one-year award will fund activities such as trainings, leadership development, and the convening of a group of community stakeholders and academics who will work together to identify comparative effectiveness research questions of importance to the Rohingya refugee community.
This project is funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Pipeline-to-Proposal Award (7716514), administered on behalf of PCORI by Michigan Public Health Institute.