Fikriyah Winata
  • Assistant Professor
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Biography

I am a health geographer and an Assistant Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. My research has focused on exploring the health and wellbeing geographies of immigrant women, geographic disparities in access to mental health care, gendered mobility, and health care services and resources supporting health (e.g., healthy food stores, health-promoting places, and social networks) among disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the United States. In addition, I foster the methodological expansion for human geography research that involves innovative and cost-effective methods. I use GIS, spatial and statistical analysis, qualitative methods, and mixed methods approaches from primary and secondary data in my research.
   

My current research includes:
   (1) Health and Wellbeing Geographies of Female Domestic Workers (FDWs): This research investigates how Indonesian FDWs in Hong Kong gain access (or not) to health-promoting places and social networks and the resulting impacts on health and wellbeing. I used primary data collected via Surveys, Interviews, and Activity Diaries to examine FDWs' mobility & (im)mobility experiences, their access to therapeutic landscape (TL) and therapeutic network (TN) encounters, synergic relationships between TLs and TNs, wellbeing dimensions in FDWs' everyday lives, and impacts of migration on FDWs' physical and mental health.
   
   (2) Access to Healthcare Facilities in Natural-Disaster Prone Areas: This research is part of the multi-year NSF EPSCoR Project which I examine how Mississippi Delta residents in Rolling Fork and surrounding towns navigate access to health care services after the March 23, 2023 tornadoes. I used community-engagement method, participatory GIS (PGIS) mapping to understand Mississippi Delta residents' access to health care.
   
   (3) Use of Innovative Methods to Address Health Disparities: I have been fostering methodological innovation for health disparities research that enables more effective and economical primary data collection. Through this research and creative/innovative methods, I have contributed to: (1) advocating for virtual fieldwork as an alternative method in human geography research; (2) extending the use of survey methods; (3) expanding mixed-method research in human geography.

Research Interests

  • Health and Medical Geography
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Mental Health
  • Wellbeing
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Geography
  • Qualitative GIS
  • Mixed-Methods and Survey Research
  • Feminist Geography
  • Gendered Mobility

Educational Background

  • PhD in Geography (August 2022), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  • MS in Geography (August 2018), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  • BS in Geography (July 2012), University of Indonesia, Depok, West Java, Indonesia

Selected Publications

  • Peer-reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters:

    • Winata, F. (2024). “I Rarely Go Out on Work Days”: Space-Time Constraints and (Im)mobility Experiences among Indonesian Female Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. Annals of the American Association of Geographers https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2322473 [IF = 3.90; Q1]

    • Winata, F., and McLafferty, S.L. (2023). Therapeutic Landscapes, Networks, and Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Female Domestic Workers. Social Science and Medicine, 115803, ISSN 0277-9536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115803 [IF = 5.379; Q1]

    •  Winata, F., and McLafferty, S.L. (2023) Therapeutic Landscape and Networks in Restricted Lives: Constructing Restorative Experiences among Indonesian Female Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. Wellbeing, Space & Society, 5, 100163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100163 [IF = N/A new journal; Q2]
    • Winata, F., McLafferty, S.L., Guhlincozzi, A.R., and Zhou, Y. (2023). Geospatial Technologies and Public Health. In The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Kent, A. J., and Specht, D (Eds). Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9780367855765-36 

    • Singleton, C.R., Winata, F., Adeyemi, O.S., Parab, K.V., and Aguiñaga, S. (2023). Violent Crime, Physical Inactivity, and Obesity: Examining Differences in Spatial Relationships by Racial/Ethnic Composition of Community Residents. Journal of Urban Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00716-z [IF = 5.801; Q1] 
    • McLafferty, S.L, and Winata, F. (2023). Conducting Questionnaire Survey. In Key Methods in Geography 4th Edition. Clifford, N., Cope, M., Gillespie, T., and French, S (Eds). SAGE Publisher. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/key-methods-in-geography/book277816#description  
    • Singleton, C.R., Winata, F., Adams, A.M., McLafferty, S.L., Sheehan, K., and Zenk, S. (2022) County-level Associations between Food Retailer Availability and Violent Crime Rate in the U.S. BMC Public Health, 22: 2002. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14415-y [IF = 4.545; Q1]

    • Singleton, C.R., Winata, F., Roehll A.M, Adamu, I., and McLoughlin, G.M. (2022). Community-Level Factors Associated with Geographic Access to Food Retailers offering Nutrition Incentives in Chicago, IL. Preventing Chronic Disease, 2022;19:210211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd19.210211 [IF = 5.5; Q1]

    • Winata, F., and McLafferty, S.L. (2021). Spatial and Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Availability of Community Health Centres in the Jakarta region, Indonesia. Geospatial Health vol. 16(2)  https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2021.982  [IF = 1.212; Q2]

    • McLafferty, S.L., Guhlincozzi, A., and Winata, F. (2021) Counting COVID: Quantitative Geographic Approaches to COVID-19. In COVID-19 and Similar Futures Geographical Perspectives, Issues and Agendas. Andrews, G.J., Crooks, V., Pearce, J., and Messina, J. (Eds). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_54

    • Gilliam, M.E, Gronemeyer, P., Chakraborty, S., Winata, F., Lyons, L.A., Miller-Hunt, C., Tuten, H.C., Debosik, S., Freeman, D., Ruiz, M.O., and Mateus-Pinilla, Nohra. (2020). Impact of Unexplored and Multiple Data Sources on the Historical Distribution of Three Vector Tick Species in Illinois. Journal of Medical Entomology, Vol 57 Issue 3, 872-883 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz235  [IF = 2.319; Q1]

    • Syanalia, R.A., and Winata, F. (2018). Decarbonizing Energy in Bali with Solar Photovoltaic: GIS- Based Evaluation on Grid-Connected System. Indonesian Journal of Energy Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018) 5- 20 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33116/ije.v1i2.22 [IF = 0.300]  
    • Winata, F., and Guhlincozzi, A.R. (2024, Accepted). Gendered Mobility, (Im)mobility, and Women’s Access to Health Care: Perspectives from the Global South and Global North. In Handbook of Gender and Mobilities. Preston, V., McLafferty, S.L., Maciejewska, M., and Yeoh, B.S.A. (Eds). Edward Elgar Publishing. (Forthcoming, December 2024)  
    • Winata, F., and McLafferty, S. (2024, Accepted). Survey Research Methods. In The Field Guide to Mixed Methods Research. Lave, R., and Lane, S. (Eds). OpenBook Publishers, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/about (Forthcoming)  
    • Winata, F., Purba, D.S.D., and Cidell, J. (2024, Accepted). Transportation Inequalities and Access to Transportation among Women and People with Disabilities in Indonesia. In Handbook of Transport in Asia. He., S. (Eds). Edward Elgar Publishing. (Forthcoming)
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