Anita Minh
Biography
Dr. Anita Minh is an Assistant Professor of Health Equity at the School of Public Health. She joins SPH after completing postdoctoral training as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellow at the University of Washington’s Department of Epidemiology and the University of British Columbia’s Department of Sociology.
Dr. Minh’s research tackles the deep-seated drivers of mental health inequities. Currently, her research focuses on how unequal access to workers’ rights and social protections fuels disparities by race and gender. She also evaluates policies and interventions in partnership with equity-deserving communities. A social epidemiologist, Dr. Minh uses advanced quantitative and community-based methods to make theoretical and methodological contributions to the field. Her work strives to shed light on the social and structural forces that can be harnessed to reduce mental health inequities from childhood through the working years.
Education, Degrees
B.Sc. Queen’s University, Department of Life Sciences, 2011
M.Sc. University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, 2015
Ph.D., jointly awarded by the University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, and the University of Groningen, Department of Public Health, 2021
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