Research Data Repositories

 Cancer Screening among Chicagoland Muslim Women

Overview: This research project represented a collaboration between Initiative of Islam and Medicine and the Council for the Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC). The project was funded through the Institute for Translational Medicine at the University of Chicago Community Project Mini-Award, American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (IRG-58-004), and a Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research, MRSG-14-032-01-CPPB, from the American Cancer Society. Our goal was to assess the impact of concerns for modesty and fatalistic attitudes on cancer screening rates within the American Muslim community through self-administered surveys. For more information on Muslim American breast cancer disparities, check out our, ‘Developing Religiously Tailored Intervention’ webpage. 

American Muslim Cultural Challenges with U.S. Healthcare 

Overview: This research project was in collaboration with the University of Michigan, ACCESS, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), and the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan (CIOM). Principal project funding obtained through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. The Institute for Social Policy & Understanding provided supplemental project funding. We explored American Muslims healthcare beliefs, how they interact with the healthcare system, and the challenges they face within the US healthcare system through surveys and focus group interviews.

National Survey of Muslim Physician Attitudes towards Religion and Medicine 

Overview: This project provided insight into the lives of American Muslim physicians as they negotiate their identity as Muslims with their identity as medical professionals within a multicultural and pluralistic society. The project was funded by the University of Chicago’s Program on Medicine and Religion Faculty Scholars Program through the John Templeton Foundation. The project focused on the ways Islam influences American Muslim physicians’ medical practices and informs their professional identities. Additionally, we explored American Muslim physicians’ experiences with religion-based workplace discrimination. Alongside the empirical inquiry, we engaged with the philosophical and ethical traditions of Islam as they relate to conceptions of healing and the moral formation of physicians. 

Previously Published Findings

Cancer Screening Among Chicagoland  Muslim Women

American Muslim Cultural Challenges with U.S. Healthcare

National Survey of Muslim Physician Attitudes towards Religion and Medicine 

 

Data Repository Information

Below you can access the survey questions, datasets, and data use agreements for the three projects outlined above. Before accessing the data, check out previously published findings above.

Cancer Screening Among Chicagoland Muslim Women

American Muslim Cultural Challenges with U.S. Healthcare

National Survey of Muslim Physician Attitudes towards Religion and Medicine