Dr Nazmy Villarroel-Williams
Nazmy K. Villarroel-Williams is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick. Nazmy is currently working on a HRB funded project on Ethnic Minority Health in Ireland (link to http://www.ul.ie/gems/public-and-patient-involvement-ppi-research-group ). Previously, she worked on ethnicity classifications at the Usher Institute of population health sciences and informatics (The University of Edinburgh), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nazmy holds a MSc Tropical Medicine & International Health, MPH, and PhD in Public Health. She has worked in the area of immigrant’s health research since 2006 before moving to the University of Limerick.
Her research interests include: Social epidemiology, population health, immigrant and refugee health and health care, ethnic health inequalities, indigenous/aboriginal health inequalities, social determinants of health, global health, gender inequalities in health and health data analysis.
Nazmy is a member of the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) research group at UL which has expertise in PPI in research, specifically participatory health research with socially excluded communities.
Villarroel N, Artazcoz L. Immigration and sleep problems in a Southern European country: Do immigrants get the best sleep? Behav Med 1-9. 2016 Jan 25.
Villarroel N, Artazcoz L. Different patterns in health care use among immigrants in Spain. J Immigr Minor Health. 2015 Apr 11.
Gotsens M, Malmusi D, Villarroel N, Vives-Cases C, Garcia-Subirats I, Hernando C, Borrell C. Health inequality between immigrants and natives in Spain: the loss of the healthy immigrant effect in times of economic crisis. Eur J Public Health. 2015 Dec;25 (6):923-9.
Villarroel N, Artazcoz L. Heterogenous patterns of health status among immigrants in Spain. HealthPlace. Nov;18(6):1282-91.Epub 2012
Villarroel N, et al. Second-hand smoke exposure in hospitality venues in Barcelona: measurement of respirable particles. Gac Sanit. 2011. doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2010.11.009
Niyi Awofeso, Kim Brooklyn and Nazmy K. V. Williams. Closing the ‘Targets’ Gaps: Review of 2008-2030 National Indigenous Health Equality Targets. Health Promotion Journal of Australia .Volume 21, Number 1, April 2010.