ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO
Dr. Ana (Nikka) Sucaldito is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work addresses health and healthcare inequities impacting marginalized Asian and Asian American refugees, immigrants, and other members of the diaspora. She earned her PhD and MPH from The Ohio State University, where she worked in the community with local and statewide nonprofits and health coalitions. She later completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wake Forest’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute where she received further training in community-based participatory research (CBPR). With experience across her many positionalities as a community member, community partner, and academic, Ana knows the importance of working with communities, not “to” or “for” them. She uses CBPR and mixed methods to create partnerships which prioritize equitable power-sharing between community and academic partners. Some of her research focuses include increasing refugee empowerment to engage in research, sport-based mental health education, and language access for limited English proficient Asian Americans.
