Fariha Khalid

Fariha Khalid is an incoming Ph.D. student in the School of Public Policy, UMBC. She is also an NOAA EPP Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Scholar. In 2020, she received an M.A. in Applied Sociology from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, UMBC. She focuses on sociopolitical factors and neighborhood effects to examine racial and economic disparities in the context of natural disasters. Her research interests include social determinants of health, food and housing insecurities, and residential segregation.