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Dr Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill imageSenior Research Fellow

BA Hons (Cant), PGDipIntHealth & PhD (Curtin)

Email ruqayya.sulaiman-hill@otago.ac.nz

Dr Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch.

She has a PhD in International Health from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia and degrees in Political Science and Religious Studies from New Zealand, as well as a professional background in Medical Laboratory Science.

Her current research focus is on the psychological impact of traumatic events, especially for refugee and migrant communities.

She is a co-Principal investigator on the HRC and CMRF funded March 15 Project, assessing the impacts of the March 15 terrorist attacks on the Christchurch Muslim community.  She is also helping to coordinate an international study to obtain data and to validate translations of a newly-developed Covid Psychosocial Impacts Scale in several Muslim majority countries.

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Research profile

Dr Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill

Publications

Dean, S., Eggleston, K., Ali, F., Thaufeeg, Z., Wells, H. J., Zarifeh, J., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Bell, C., & Crowe, M. (2024). ‘I can feel sad about it and I can worry, but inside I know everything happens for a reason’: Personal experiences in the aftermath of the March 15 Christchurch mosque attacks. BJPsych Open, 10, e176. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2024.791 Journal - Research Article

Sulaiman-Hill, R., Schluter, P. J., Tanveer, S., Boden, J. M., Porter, R., Beaglehole, B., Dean, S., Thaufeeg, Z., & Bell, C. (2024). The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58(11), 977-989. doi: 10.1177/00048674241276802 Journal - Research Article

Sulaiman-Hill, R., Porter, R., Schluter, P., Beaglehole, B., Dean, S., Tanveer, S., Boden, J., & Bell, C. (2024). Research following trauma in minority ethnic and faith communities: Lessons from a study of the psychosocial sequelae of the Christchurch mosque terror attacks. BJPsych Open, 10(1), 1-4. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.641 Journal - Research Other

Tanveer, S., Schluter, P. J., Beaglehole, B., Porter, R. J., Boden, J., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Scarf, D., Dean, S., … Bell, C. (2023). The COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale: A reliable and valid tool to examine the psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 20, 5990. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115990 Journal - Research Article

Bell, C., & Sulaiman-Hill, R. (2022, September). Early findings from the March 15 terror attacks study. Invited presentation at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) New Zealand Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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