Masoumeh Karimi, PhD, MPH

Co-Investigator, A Proposal to Establish the Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (VIP) Program

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Mississippi Medical Center

mkarimi@umc.edu

Dr. Masoumeh Karimi is a Co-Investigator of the University of Mississippi Medical Center project “A Proposal to Establish the Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (VIP) Program” and is a member of the Communication and Dissemination Workgroup for the Community Firearm Violence Prevention Network.

Dr. Masoumeh Karimi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Nursing, Office of Research and Scholarship, in Jackson, Mississippi. She obtained her Doctorate in Health Psychology from the University of Tehran and her Master of Public Health-Biostatistics from Jackson State University. Her research focuses on chronic health conditions at the population level. Dr. Karimi has worked in a variety of research and teaching roles, including a CDC-funded project targeting cardiovascular disease in the Mississippi Delta region, which is a chance for her to work with underserved communities. She is responsible for designing data collection forms, collecting, cleaning, and analyzing the data, and dissemination of the findings.

As a health psychologist, she was involved in several population and hospital-based mental health-related projects. She has been a co-investigator of a national-level study of medical students’ mental health in Iran and had multiple collaborations with the department of pediatric psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

She is a co-investigator of a recently awarded grant by the Department of Health and Human Services, related to substance abuse and intimate partner violence among Mississippi women.

Affiliated Projects

University of Mississippi Medical Center |

A Proposal to Establish the Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (VIP) Program

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