Sharon G. Borja
Of Filipino and American nationality, Dr. Sharon Borja is a Research Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston and Principal Investigator of the Mixed Methods Study on Latina Health and Behavioral Health funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She received her PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Washington (UW) and her MSW from San Francisco State University. Dr. Borja's interdisciplinary training at UW was funded by a Mental Health Prevention Research internship from the National Institutes of Health and a TL1 Translational Research Training Award from the National Institutes of Health through the Institute of Translational Health Sciences. She also received the Warren G. Magnuson Fellowship from the Warren G. Magnuson Institute for Biomedical Research and Health Professions Training at UW. Dr. Borja studies adversity (stressful and traumatic experiences) and resilience and their effects on the health and well-being of marginalized immigrant populations over a lifetime and across generations. Her work increasingly focuses on how exposure to positive experiences and contexts could promote better health outcomes and equity among immigrants, co-sponsoring with the Refugee House Program of Mexico and the ENTS UNAM, the founding of the Global Humanitarian Observatory.