Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Research Interests
Bushra Sabri is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sabri received her PhD from the University of Iowa, with pre-doctoral research support by NIMH (T32MH16089) and SAMHSA (T06SMO58565-03) and completed her NICHD funded interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellowship (T32HDO64428) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has been involved in several funded research projects focusing on interpersonal violence across the lifespan, and health outcomes of violence, particularly among vulnerable, underserved and marginalized populations. Her NICHD funded project (K99HD082350 and R00HD082350) focuses on examining effects of traumatic life experiences on physiological stress mechanisms and health outcomes. The project is also testing a multicomponent intervention to address stress and related health issues among survivors of cumulative trauma. Dr. Sabri’s research interests include: lifetime exposures to violence and stress and related health inequities, role of physiological stress responses in coping and adaptation to traumatic life events, and biopsychosocial approach to development of trauma informed culturally tailored interventions for at-risk populations from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.