Ida R. Salusky
MPH, PhD; Research Associate
Northwestern University
ida.salusky@northwestern.edu
Chicago, IL, USA

Area of expertise: forced migration, clinical-community psychology, traumatic stress, qualitative methods, empirically based treatments, family systems, coalition building

I am a clinical-community psychologist and a Research Associate at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. As an interdisciplinary researcher, my work broadly focuses on system level interventions to address issues of structural inequality and oppression, through an intersectional lens. I have experience working with asylum seekers, refugees and forced migrants both domestically and internationally.

Much of my international research focuses on how women of Haitian descent, living in the Dominican Republic, resist structural violence. In the U.S. I am active in coalition work to develop an integrated mental healthcare network for immigrants and refugees in Chicago. Additionally, I developed the first university housed forensic psychological assessment training clinic in Chicago. I directed and supervised the Forensic Asylum Assessment Team (FAAT) at DePaul University between 2019-2021.