Malaika is a Research Assistant working on the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets (LILD) project, the Exploring the Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety, DEpression in families (TRADE) project and the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures.

Malaika joined the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre as a research assistant in 2022 after completing a Bachelor of Science in Global Health and Social Medicine – Neuroscience at King’s College London.

Malaika received the second prize in the 2022 Biotechnology & Society Essay contest on the theme "We are not human all the way down. So what?". Her winning essay was titled 'Are probiotics the catalyst for a medical shift from Individualism towards Interspecies approaches?'

Research Interests

• Longitudinal data
• Racism
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Mental health

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) Podcasts - Transmission of Experiences of Racism, Anxiety, and Depression in Families
• Longitudinal data in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
• 'Are probiotics the catalyst for a medical shift from Individualism towards Interspecies approaches?'
• The Big Emerging Minds Summit Workshop: Parent and teenager perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of racial trauma
• The Big Emerging Minds Summit Workshop: Experiences of Black researchers: engaging with anti-racism in research
• Colouring the Mind: Racism and Mental Health - The Concept - ACAMH

Key Publications

• Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets: Full Report
• OSF Preprints | Intergenerational Consequences of Racism in the UK: A Qualitative Investigation into Parents’ Exposure to Racism and Offspring Mental Health and Wellbeing.