Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Faculty Fellow
Dr. Aaida A. Mamuji is an associate professor of disaster and emergency management at York University. Her areas of interest are social vulnerability and capability in the disaster context, hosting and resettlement, and risk assessment. She has received excellence awards for her research and teaching and is the recipient of a number of internal and external research grants. Most recently Dr. Mamuji was awarded three major COVID-19 research grants as principal investigator, including one from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to research destigmatizing Chinese communities in the face of COVID-19. Prior to joining York University, Dr. Mamuji was a policy advisor and researcher in the former Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (now Global Affairs Canada). She completed her PhD in public administration at the University of Ottawa.
Research keywords:
Disaster management; social vulnerability; hosting; resettlement; risk assessment
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
Related Work | |
Updates |
Postdoctoral Fellow — Emergency Management Actions to Address Stigma in Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from COVID-19 | January 8, 2024
Why is Uptake of Digital Contact Tracings Apps Low? The Digital Global Health and Humanitarianism Lab has Evidence-based Answers and Recommendations | March 8, 2021 |
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