biography

  • Nana Aisha Garba, MD, PhD, MPH, is a supervising faculty physician in the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP). Through NeighborhoodHELP, Dr. Garba conducts household visits in underserved communities within Miami-Dade County with interprofessional teams of FIU students. She is the course director of the community medicine practicum, co-course director for the fundamentals of community-engaged physician course, and a course administrator for the community-engaged physician longitudinal course series. She is also the current research lead at the Department of Humanities, Health, and Society.

research interests

  • Primary Care
    Health Disparities & Social Determinants of Health
    Policy & Health Advocacy
    Medical Education
    Program Evaluation

selected scholarly works & creative activities

co-principal investigator on

full name

  • Nana Garba
  • Nana Aisha Garba

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