In this week’s Scientist Highlights, we feature Linda Sayed, PhD, who became a MCCFAD Scientist in 2021. Dr. Sayed’s RCMAR pilot project is “The Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Aging Arab Americans”. Her research focuses on the politics of citizenship as it relates to marginalized communities, refugee rights, health care accessibility, and systems of national and international governance that inform global public health concerns in the Middle East and among Arab communities in the United States.

See the publications below relating to her RCMAR pilot:

• Sayed Linda, Mohammed Alanazi, and Kristine J. Ajrouch. Self-Reported Cognitive Ageing and well-being among older Middle Eastern/Arab American Immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 20, no. 11, 2023: 5918.
• Garcia Marc, Erica D. Diminich, Peiyi Lu, Sandra P. Arevalo, Linda Sayed, Randa Abdelrahim, and    Kristine J. Ajrouch. “Caregiving for Foreign-Born Older Adults with Dementia.” Journal of Gerontology, Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol. 78, Supplement 1, February 2023: S4-S14.
• Sayed Linda, Mohammed Alanazi, and Kristine J. Ajrouch. “Intergenerational relations and well-being among older Middle Eastern/Arab American Immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Research on Aging, submitted June 2023.
• Brown, J. Monique, Paris B. Adkins-Jackson, Linda Sayed, Fei Wang, Amanda Leggett, Lindsay Ryan. “The Worst of Times: Depressive Symptoms among Racialized Groups living with Dementia and Cognitive Impairment during Two Major National/Global Events” Journal of Aging and Health, submitted March 7, 2022, Under Review.

Learn more about Dr. Sayed.

Visit the MCCFAD website.