Aniqua Salwa

Aniqua Salwa is a Clinical Professor at Texas A&M University, specializing in clinical psychology with a focus on addiction, behavioral health, and health disparities. Her research emphasizes understanding risk factors for smoking-related behaviors and mental health outcomes among marginalized populations. She advises students and collaborates on interventions targeting distress tolerance and anxiety sensitivity in smoking cessation.

Key research themes include evaluating transdiagnostic risk factors like anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance, moderating effects of discrimination on health behaviors, and developing digital interventions for smoking cessation. Her work often focuses on Latinx populations and intersects with public health, clinical trial design, and cultural competence.

Aniqua has published extensively on smoking cessation barriers, pain management, and suicide risk in university students. She prioritizes community-based research through Federally Qualified Health Centers and explores intersections between socioeconomic status and behavioral health outcomes.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided information. Her advising and grant activities are not detailed here. She is affiliated with Texas A&M's clinical psychology program, though specific lab or team affiliations are not mentioned.