SCIENTIST HIGHLIGHT: BITA AMANI, PHD, MHS (CHIME)
In this week’s Scientist Highlights, we feature Bita Amani, PhD, who became a CHIME Scientist in 2021. Dr. Amani’s RCMAR pilot project is “Impact of COVID-19 on the Health and Wellbeing of Older Racial/ethnic Women Leading Essential Community-Based Work: A Historical, Community Assets and Equity Approach”. She is a social epidemiologist whose teaching and research focus on the synergies and tensions between community health, structural racism, politics, and power. She is an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), and lead co-chair of the UCLA/CDU COVID-19 Racism and Equity Task Force housed in the UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health. She is also Co-Director of CDU’s Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence.