https://www.lilahkhoja.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc50f152cf09257bd8662a1/1606752719439-3TG4YWBGAWQBO3QY1VEA/Khoja+Headshot.png Home - Hi. My name is Lilah Khoja, and I am an Epidemiology doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health. Dr. Leigh Pearce is my advisor and I am part of the Mondul-Pearce Research Group. I am primarily interested in cancer risks and disparities, and Arab/Arab American health. In planning for my dissertation, I hope to focus on bladder cancer disparities and nativity and immigration. In the future, I will use my diverse skill set to design interventions to eliminate health inequities. With Dr. Pearce, I have worked on SAHA-HPV, a study evaluating HPV self-collection acceptability and feasibility amongst Arab American women in Dearborn, numerous projects looking at ovarian cancer risk, and some projects evaluating life purpose and survival. I am also currently an interviewer on the Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study (MI CReSS), a joint project between UM SPH and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc50f152cf09257bd8662a1/1606764586792-8FD9KUEMPORJAKN0HD48/IMG_6176.jpg Home - Professional Philosophy “Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other” - Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed I firmly believe that critical scholarship is necessary to transform the world. I entered public health because without health, there is nothing. I am committed to not just becoming an expert in specifically cancer disparities in immigrant and refugee communities, but to working with them to address these disparities. I channel this hope for change to better myself, to push me even further, and to remain steadfast in my drive to do a world of good. https://www.lilahkhoja.com/seating-chart daily 0.75 2024-05-22