Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City.

Our goal is to bring

scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews

with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more.

If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, in a bonus episode during

suicide prevention week, Stephanie Desmond talks to

Amelia Noor Oshiro, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, about her research into Muslim Americans

and suicide and why this group has been long overlooked. Let's listen.

Amelia Noor Oshiro, thanks so much for joining me.

Thank you for having me, Stephanie.

So you study suicide prevention in Muslim Americans.

Tell me why this has been such a neglected population.

Absolutely.

I think that Muslim Americans in research are underrepresented right now on the scientific literature.

And when you look at the history of understanding publications and how the scientific research world works, it really comes down to funding.

Getting access to funding allows us to actually conduct the research that we need to do.

And it's been historically very

difficult to attain funding for Muslim Americans, at least in terms of federal funding,

because much of the research can focus on, you know, two different directions. We can focus on

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