Expertise
Dr. Hadis Dastgerdizad Elyaderani earned her PhD in Community Health from Wayne State University. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing the root causes of health inequities experienced by immigrants/refugees, with a particular focus on healthy food access, nutritional behavior, obesity control, and prevention. She employs qualitative and quantitative research methods to develop and implement tailored environmental and behavioral approaches to account for the contexts and experiences of immigrant communities. She seeks to refine existing health-promoting strategies to improve the racial and ethnic diversity and generalizability of public health research. In her recent study in immigrant enclaves of Michigan, Dr.Elyaderany created a scoring system for evaluating the sugar-sweetened beverages marketing to infants and toddlers. Her work has also included studies of youth wellness and health disparities and health improvement interventions in Iran. Throughout her career, she received funding for her research, and her works have been published in the Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and the Journal of Nutrients and presented in APHA and SOPHE.