Aeysha Chaudhry, PhD, MSc
Alumni
Community Health Sciences
Pronouns: She/her/hers
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About
Ms. Chaudhry's research interests center around the sexual and mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the United States. These include immigrant groups, and more specifically, those who identify as a part of the LGBT community. She is interested in addressing these public health issues through community based participatory research (CBPR) and mixed methods. Her dissertation focuses on the health needs and healthcare seeking experiences of sexual and gender minority migrant women in the U.S.
At UIC Ms. Chaudhry works closely with faculty, students and community members as a research assistant on the UIC Evaluation team of the Chicago Department of Public Health's Healthy Chicago Equity Zones and Health Equity in All Policies initiatives. She helps in conducting and analyzing data from key informant interviews. In collaboration with faculty in the nursing school, she is involved with qualitative research addressing the sexual and mental health needs of both Arab Americans and Arab immigrants to the United States. She previously worked as a research assistant for two years on the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) project which aims to address issues surrounding precarious employment in the Greater Lawndale, Chicago. She also worked for the UIC Collaboratory for Health Justice on Transformation, a project with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services that aimed to gather community input on the health needs and healthcare service experiences of community members from socially vulnerable regions of Chicago.
Prior to UIC, Ms. Chaudhry worked as a research assistant at Boston Children's Hospital. She conducted research on a variety of topics including childhood cancer survivorship and the uptake of PrEP among transgender women in Peru.
Selected Publications
Chaudhry, A., Hebert-Beirne, J., Hanneke, R., Alessi, E. J., Mitchell, U., Molina, Y., Chebli, P., & Abboud, S. (2023). The Health Needs of Sexual and Gender Minority Migrant Women to the United States: A Scoping Review. LGBT Health, 11(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2022.0392
Abboud, S., Chaudhry, A. B., & Pachankis, J. E. (2024). A qualitative exploration of minority stress, mental health, and sexual health among Arab immigrant sexual minority men in the United States. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000645
Forst, L., Chaudhry, A., Lopez, A., McCarthy, M., Hebert-Beirne, Jeni. (2023) Protecting workers in temporary staffing: a temp company perspective. Occupational Medicine, 73(4), 193-198. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqad045
Chaudhry, A. B., & Reisner, S. L. (2019). Disparities by sexual orientation persist for major depressive episode and substance abuse or dependence: Findings from a national probability study of adults in the united states. LGBT Health, 6(5), 261-266. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2018.0207
Reisner, S. L., Chaudhry, A., Cooney, E., Garrison-Desany, H., Juarez-Chavez, E., & Wirtz, A. L. (2020). ‘It all dials back to safety’: A qualitative study of social and economic vulnerabilities among transgender women participating in HIV research in the USA. BMJ Open, 10(1), e029852. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029852
Education
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, MSc Public Health (2016)
Georgetown University, BSc International Health, minor: Arabic (2015)
Selected Presentations
American Public Health Association Conference (2023): Chaudhry A., Hebert-Beirne, J., Alessi, E.J., Khuzam, M.Z., Mitchell, U., Molina, Y., Wasfie, D., Abboud, S. Exploring the mental health and healthcare seeking of Arab sexual minority women (SMW) migrants to the United States: A qualitative descriptive study
The Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Conference (2017): Chaudhry, A., Hajat, S., Rizkallah, N., & Abu-Rub, A. (2018). Risk factors for vitamin A and vitamin D deficiencies in children younger than 5 years in the occupied Palestinian territory: A cross-sectional study. The Lancet, 391, S3. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30369-6