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Three Brown School Assistant Professors—Nhial Tutlam, Proscovia Nabunya and Mitra Naseh—have been awarded $150,000 from the Fogarty International Center (FIC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build research capacity among refugee youth living in refugee settlements in Uganda.

Mitra Naseh has been named a Spring 2026 CRE² Faculty Fellow. The fellowship provides a semester free from teaching and service obligations, allowing faculty to fully dedicate their time to research.
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The Forced Migration Initiative (FMI), led by Principal Investigator Mitra Naseh, has received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award, an annual recognition celebrating outstanding community-engaged research in the St. Louis region.

Congratulations to our Graduate Research Assistant, Jihye Lee, a second-year doctoral student at the Brown School, for winning the Second Prize in the Social Science category at the 2025 30th Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis for her presentation “Multidimensional Deprivation Among Newly Resettled Afghans in the U.S.”

Students in the Practice with Refugees and Immigrants course at the Brown School have the unique opportunity to work directly with newly resettled refugees in St. Louis, thanks to a collaboration with Welcome Neighbor St. Louis.

Naseh, Director of the ISWFM, published an invited article with the Migration Information Source, a digital publication and resource platform by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).

Mitra Naseh, Director of the Initiative on Social Work and Forced Migration and Assistant Professor at the Brown School, has been awarded a three-year, $463,654 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health through its highly competitive Opportunity Fund.

SH+ is a low-intensity psychological intervention designed to support mental health and well-being among refugees and asylum seekers.