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Safiyyah M. Okoye, PHD, MSN, RN (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Safiyyah Okoye, PhD, MSN, is an assistant professor of nursing in Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Okoye joined Drexel as part of the Drexel FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) program.

Okoye’s goal as a public health researcher and nurse practitioner is to increase equity in health and function for older adults. After working as a primary care nurse practitioner, she pursued a doctoral degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. In her dissertation she investigated associations between sleep health and physical function in low-income, mostly Black older adults with disabilities. She found that objective measures of poor sleep were associated with lower objectively measured physical performance and greater instrumental activity of daily living disability. Another paper from her dissertation examined associations between housing conditions and sleep health in this population and found that exterior housing disrepair was associated with poorer sleep health. Her postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Training Program provided training in conducting epidemiological research on older adult health using large, population-based datasets.

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