Akilah Dulin, PhD

Akilah Dulin is a social scientist with training and expertise in social factors of health, theory, community engaged research methods, qualitative and mixed methods research, measure development and policy advocacy. She examines multilevel risk and multilevel resilience resources associated with health outcomes among populations disproportionately burdened by diseases. She has served as multiple principal investigator (MPI) on three NIH-funded R01 grants, co-investigator on one NIH-funded R01 and principal investigator of two foundation grants. Examples of her current research include serving as MPI of a resilience building, dietary intervention grant with Southeast Asian families to improve children’s dietary quality and reduce type 2 diabetes risk. She is also co-I of a recently awarded structural racism grant where she leads development of the structural racism and resilience measures to examine their impact on criminal justice trajectories among emerging adults. She also has a community engaged research grant to contextualize racial-equity oriented policy recommendations and qualitative primary data collection to understand barriers to (e.g., structural racism) and facilitators of well-being. Prior to joining the faculty at Tulane, she was an Associate Professor at Brown University. She received her PhD in medical sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.