Falah Nayif Rashoka, PhD, RN, MS, MPH

Assistant Professor

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Contact

falahrashoka@creighton.edu
College of Nursing
Faculty - Nursing
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Falah Nayif Rashoka, PhD, RN, MS, MPH

Assistant Professor

Dr. Falah N. Rashoka, PhD, RN, MS, MPH, CPH is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Creighton University College of Nursing. He holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MPH in Health Promotion from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and an MS in Community Nutrition & Health Promotion. Dr. Rashoka’s interdisciplinary research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and smart health technologies to enhance chronic disease prevention, physical activity monitoring, and nutritional assessment, particularly among underserved populations. His recent work includes an AI-driven initiative to track physical activity and dietary intake using wearable technology and image recognition—supported by the Institute of Population Health—as well as a project utilizing AI to aid in the early detection of retinopathy in diabetic patients.
A recipient of the Nebraska Nurses Association's “40 Under 40” Award, Dr. Rashoka is committed to advancing health equity through digital innovation. His work bridges the fields of nursing, family medicine, technology, and population health to improve patient outcomes and expand healthcare accessibility in marginalized communities.

Research Focus

AI in chronic disease prevention and management, population health, behavioral health, psychosocial health, health equity, and mixed methods research.

Position

Assistant Professor

Publications

  • Transcultural psychiatry
    Tippens Julie A, etal Coca-Cola and hookah: Yazidi refugees' negotiation of hopeful futures and psychosocial resilience in U.S. resettlement, p. 13634615251343409 2025
  • American journal of public health
    Rashoka Falah Nayif, etal The Languages of Public Health: Student Perspectives on Terms, Communities, and Language
    114:2 2024
  • American journal of public health
    Williams Blair E., etal Words Matter: The Languages of Public Health
    114:2 2024
  • Current developments in nutrition
    Oghaz Masoomeh Hajizadeh, etal Barriers to Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) Implementation Before and After COVID-19: A Qualitative, Collective Case Study
    6:Supplement_1, p. 113 - 113 2022
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    Rashoka Falah N., etal “Many people have no idea”: a qualitative analysis of healthcare barriers among Yazidi refugees in the Midwestern United States
    21:1 2022
  • HPHR Journal
    RASHOKA FALAH, etal Serving Refugees in a Pandemic: Insights from Yazidis in the Midwest, p. - 2021
  • HPHR Journal
    RASHOKA FALAH, etal COVID-19 Contagion among Communities with Limited English Proficiency: Lesson from Volunteerism, p. - 2021

Presentations

  • Adapting and Enduring: Using AI and Dietary Intake to Understand Chronic Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Dynamics Among Refugees in the Midwest 2025
  • A panel discussion on the health of refugees and immigrants 2025
  • Health challenges and adoption in refugees: A cross-sectional quantitative study on the dynamics of chronic diseases and the impact of COVID-19 in the Midwest 2024