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Malaika is a Research Assistant working on the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets (LILD) project, the Exploring the Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety, DEpression in families (TRADE) project and the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures.
Malaika joined the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre as a research assistant in 2022 after completing a Bachelor of Science in Global Health and Social Medicine – Neuroscience at King’s College London.
Malaika received the second prize in the 2022 Biotechnology & Society Essay contest on the theme "We are not human all the way down. So what?". Her winning essay was titled 'Are probiotics the catalyst for a medical shift from Individualism towards Interspecies approaches?'
Research interests (short)
- Longitudinal data
- Racism
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mental health
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Exploring the world for longitudinal datasets: data resources for transformative mental health research
Arseneault, L., Bryan, B., Canning, T., Okundi, M., Stephens, A., Triantafillopoulos, E. T., Yu, D., Bolivar, M., Mansoori, P., Milligan, L., Evans, E. & Gatera, G., 11 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Epidemiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents' exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well-being
Simela, C., Fayese, T., Okundi, M., Abdalla, H., McAdams, T. A., Harris, A., Augustine, A., Le, H., Abdinasir, K., Ayorech, Z. & Ahmadzadeh, Y., 31 May 2024, In: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 29, 2, p. 181-191Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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