Contact information
Email: baalshurman@uwaterloo.ca
Bara’ is a PhD student in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Bara' completed her undergraduate degree in Dentistry and her master's in Public Health/Maternal and Child Health at Jordan University of Science and Technology.
Prior to joining Zahid’s research team, she worked at Jordan University of Science and Technology School of Public Health as a Teaching Assistant. She also worked on research related to dentists’ awareness and perceptions regarding COVID-19 and infection control. Currently, she is working on a scoping review on vaccine hesitancy
Bara' is interested in reducing the gap in social disparities especially for women groups as well as refugee women and to deal with health problems affecting the vulnerable groups and underserved individuals and communities. Her other areas of interest focus on immunizations, vaccine hesitancy, and infectious diseases like COVID-19.