Ranit Mishori
Biographic Data
| ID | 778288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranit Mishori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranit |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishori |
| SIGNATURE | MISHORI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4292-0580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Healthcare workers’ perspectives on trauma and mental health access for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Background: In August 2017, the Rohingya population of northern Rakhine State in Myanmar fled to Bangladesh following "clearance operations" by the Myanmar security forces that were characterized by widespread and systematic violence, constituting severe human rights violations. The "clearance operations" were preceded by years of consistent denial of the human rights of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. This study examines the impact of these huma…
Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum
Each year, millions of people fleeing persecution seek asylum in the USA and elsewhere. Many have experienced psychological and/or physical trauma that can be documented with objective forensic medical and mental evaluations (FMEs) performed by trained clinicians. FMEs can assist adjudicators in deciding claims, and asylum seekers who undergo an FME are significantly more likely to be granted asylum. However, there is a shortage of clinicians tra…
Individuals’ experiences in U.S. immigration detention during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic
“Most of the cases are very similar.”
Healthcare workers corroborated previous reports that the Rohingya experienced CRSV at the hands of the Myanmar military and security forces. Survivors often revealed their experiences of sexual violence while seeking care for a variety of physical and psychological conditions. Stigma, cultural pressure, and trauma created barriers to disclosing experiences of sexual violence and likely resulted in an underreporting of the prevalence of sexual vi…
Clinicians’ perceptions of the health status of formerly detained immigrants
This is the first survey, to our knowledge, of health care professionals treating individuals upon release from detention. Due to the lack of transparency by federal entities and limited access to detainees, this survey serves as a source of credible information about conditions experienced within immigration detention facilities and is a means of corroborating immigrant testimonials and media reports. These findings can help inform policy discus…
Multiyear, Multisectoral Training Program in Kenya to Enhance Medical–Legal Processes in Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) leads to severe sequelae for individuals and communities. Lack of cross-sector coordination inhibits effective medical-legal support and justice for survivors. Multisectoral trainings for health, legal, and law enforcement professionals on survivor-centered SGBV care were conducted in Kenya during 2012-2018. Evaluation utilized objective structured clinical examinations, standardized patients, knowledge ass…
Health Professionals, Human Rights Violations at the US-Mexico Border, and Holocaust Legacy
Health professionals caring for asylum seekers face decisions about whether to participate in force-feeding hunger strikers, performing and reviewing unnecessary x-rays to assess detainees' ages, misusing detainees' health information, and discharging patients based on immigration officials' demands rather than patient safety. The latter action is a classic dual-loyalty dilemma reminiscent of some clinicians' actions during the Holocaust. This ar…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Alternatives to Detention
Alternatives to Detention: Immigration Reform Grounded in Public Health Nishant UppalBS, Raquel Sofia SandovalBA, BS, Parsa ErfaniBA, Ranit MishoriMD, MHS, and Katherine R. PeelerMD, MA Affiliation Nishant Uppal is with Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA. Raquel Sofia Sandoval is with Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA. Parsa Erfani is with Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H.…
Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs' Training on Human Trafficking
Background Human trafficking (HT) affects millions globally, and is linked to significant health effects. Studies suggest victims interact with the healthcare system while exploited, yet go unrecognized. We sought to determine the content and extent of HT training in family medicine residency programs and to identify barriers to providing formal training.Methodology Participation in the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research All…
Virginity testing
Virginity testing is a complex, culturally mediated practice that is poorly understood by Western clinicians. While advocating for global elimination of the practice of virginity testing as a human rights violation, clinical practice is often more complicated and ethically nuanced, and the clinician must act in the best interest of her patient. Upholding human rights does not have to be incompatible with providing a needed service to a patient, w…
Protests Against Police Violence Met by More Police Violence—A Dangerous Paradox
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting as Grounds for Asylum Requests in the US
The Use of Age Assessment in the Context of Child Migration
Anecdotal reports suggest migrant children at the US border have had to undergo age assessment procedures to prove to immigration officials they qualify for special protections afforded to those under age 18. There are a variety of methods to assess the chronological ages of minors, including imaging studies such as X-rays of the wrist, teeth, or collarbone. However, these procedures have come under great scrutiny for being arbitrary and inaccura…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in the United States
Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), an age-old tradition that is still widely practiced around the world, is gaining recognition as an important public health issue in the United States. Increasingly, because of migration, women and girls affected by FGM/C have become members of host communities where the practice is not culturally acceptable. According to recent conservative estimates, more than 513 000 immigrant women and girls living…
The Social Determinants of Health? Time to Focus on the Political Determinants of Health
Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC R.M. is paid consultant for Physicians for Human Rights, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. Reprints: Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, Department of Family Medicine, Health & Media Fellowship, Robert L. Phillips, Jr Health Policy Fellowship, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, BG-01D, Washington, DC 20007. E-mail: [email …
Documentation of human rights abuses among Rohingya refugees from Myanmar
BACKGROUND: Decades of persecution culminated in a statewide campaign of organized, systematic, and violent eviction of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar government beginning in August 2017. These attacks included the burning of homes and farms, beatings, shootings, sexual violence, summary executions, burying the dead in mass graves, and other atrocities. The Myanmar government has denied any responsibility. To document evidence of reported atr…
Words Matter
War games
There is fear but there is no other work’
Two decades of conflict and insecurity have had a devastating impact on many in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including marginalised groups such as sex workers. In the province of North Kivu, many residents face desperate conditions that render them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. As a result, many turn to the sex trade in what can often be described as 'survival sex'. This small-scale qualitative study explores the experience of …
Their Stories Have Changed My Life”
Self-reported Vicarious Trauma in Asylum Evaluators
Documentation of human rights abuses among Rohingya refugees from Myanmar
BACKGROUND: Decades of persecution culminated in a statewide campaign of organized, systematic, and violent eviction of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar government beginning in August 2017. These attacks included the burning of homes and farms, beatings, shootings, sexual violence, summary executions, burying the dead in mass graves, and other atrocities. The Myanmar government has denied any responsibility. To document evidence of reported atr…
Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs' Training on Human Trafficking
Background Human trafficking (HT) affects millions globally, and is linked to significant health effects. Studies suggest victims interact with the healthcare system while exploited, yet go unrecognized. We sought to determine the content and extent of HT training in family medicine residency programs and to identify barriers to providing formal training.Methodology Participation in the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research All…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Multiyear, Multisectoral Training Program in Kenya to Enhance Medical–Legal Processes in Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) leads to severe sequelae for individuals and communities. Lack of cross-sector coordination inhibits effective medical-legal support and justice for survivors. Multisectoral trainings for health, legal, and law enforcement professionals on survivor-centered SGBV care were conducted in Kenya during 2012-2018. Evaluation utilized objective structured clinical examinations, standardized patients, knowledge ass…
Self-reported Vicarious Trauma in Asylum Evaluators
Their Stories Have Changed My Life”
There is fear but there is no other work’
Two decades of conflict and insecurity have had a devastating impact on many in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including marginalised groups such as sex workers. In the province of North Kivu, many residents face desperate conditions that render them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. As a result, many turn to the sex trade in what can often be described as 'survival sex'. This small-scale qualitative study explores the experience of …
War games
Words Matter
The Use of Age Assessment in the Context of Child Migration
Anecdotal reports suggest migrant children at the US border have had to undergo age assessment procedures to prove to immigration officials they qualify for special protections afforded to those under age 18. There are a variety of methods to assess the chronological ages of minors, including imaging studies such as X-rays of the wrist, teeth, or collarbone. However, these procedures have come under great scrutiny for being arbitrary and inaccura…
Public Health Research Priorities to Address Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in the United States
Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), an age-old tradition that is still widely practiced around the world, is gaining recognition as an important public health issue in the United States. Increasingly, because of migration, women and girls affected by FGM/C have become members of host communities where the practice is not culturally acceptable. According to recent conservative estimates, more than 513 000 immigrant women and girls living…
The Social Determinants of Health? Time to Focus on the Political Determinants of Health
Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC R.M. is paid consultant for Physicians for Human Rights, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. Reprints: Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP, Department of Family Medicine, Health & Media Fellowship, Robert L. Phillips, Jr Health Policy Fellowship, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, BG-01D, Washington, DC 20007. E-mail: [email …
Documentation of human rights abuses among Rohingya refugees from Myanmar
BACKGROUND: Decades of persecution culminated in a statewide campaign of organized, systematic, and violent eviction of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar government beginning in August 2017. These attacks included the burning of homes and farms, beatings, shootings, sexual violence, summary executions, burying the dead in mass graves, and other atrocities. The Myanmar government has denied any responsibility. To document evidence of reported atr…
Virginity testing
Virginity testing is a complex, culturally mediated practice that is poorly understood by Western clinicians. While advocating for global elimination of the practice of virginity testing as a human rights violation, clinical practice is often more complicated and ethically nuanced, and the clinician must act in the best interest of her patient. Upholding human rights does not have to be incompatible with providing a needed service to a patient, w…
Protests Against Police Violence Met by More Police Violence—A Dangerous Paradox
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting as Grounds for Asylum Requests in the US
Health Professionals, Human Rights Violations at the US-Mexico Border, and Holocaust Legacy
Health professionals caring for asylum seekers face decisions about whether to participate in force-feeding hunger strikers, performing and reviewing unnecessary x-rays to assess detainees' ages, misusing detainees' health information, and discharging patients based on immigration officials' demands rather than patient safety. The latter action is a classic dual-loyalty dilemma reminiscent of some clinicians' actions during the Holocaust. This ar…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Alternatives to Detention
Alternatives to Detention: Immigration Reform Grounded in Public Health Nishant UppalBS, Raquel Sofia SandovalBA, BS, Parsa ErfaniBA, Ranit MishoriMD, MHS, and Katherine R. PeelerMD, MA Affiliation Nishant Uppal is with Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA. Raquel Sofia Sandoval is with Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA. Parsa Erfani is with Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H.…
Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs' Training on Human Trafficking
Background Human trafficking (HT) affects millions globally, and is linked to significant health effects. Studies suggest victims interact with the healthcare system while exploited, yet go unrecognized. We sought to determine the content and extent of HT training in family medicine residency programs and to identify barriers to providing formal training.Methodology Participation in the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research All…
“Most of the cases are very similar.”
Healthcare workers corroborated previous reports that the Rohingya experienced CRSV at the hands of the Myanmar military and security forces. Survivors often revealed their experiences of sexual violence while seeking care for a variety of physical and psychological conditions. Stigma, cultural pressure, and trauma created barriers to disclosing experiences of sexual violence and likely resulted in an underreporting of the prevalence of sexual vi…
Clinicians’ perceptions of the health status of formerly detained immigrants
This is the first survey, to our knowledge, of health care professionals treating individuals upon release from detention. Due to the lack of transparency by federal entities and limited access to detainees, this survey serves as a source of credible information about conditions experienced within immigration detention facilities and is a means of corroborating immigrant testimonials and media reports. These findings can help inform policy discus…
Multiyear, Multisectoral Training Program in Kenya to Enhance Medical–Legal Processes in Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) leads to severe sequelae for individuals and communities. Lack of cross-sector coordination inhibits effective medical-legal support and justice for survivors. Multisectoral trainings for health, legal, and law enforcement professionals on survivor-centered SGBV care were conducted in Kenya during 2012-2018. Evaluation utilized objective structured clinical examinations, standardized patients, knowledge ass…
Individuals’ experiences in U.S. immigration detention during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic
Healthcare workers’ perspectives on trauma and mental health access for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Background: In August 2017, the Rohingya population of northern Rakhine State in Myanmar fled to Bangladesh following "clearance operations" by the Myanmar security forces that were characterized by widespread and systematic violence, constituting severe human rights violations. The "clearance operations" were preceded by years of consistent denial of the human rights of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. This study examines the impact of these huma…
Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum
Each year, millions of people fleeing persecution seek asylum in the USA and elsewhere. Many have experienced psychological and/or physical trauma that can be documented with objective forensic medical and mental evaluations (FMEs) performed by trained clinicians. FMEs can assist adjudicators in deciding claims, and asylum seekers who undergo an FME are significantly more likely to be granted asylum. However, there is a shortage of clinicians tra…
Medicine (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (12 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Public health (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Refugee (7 works)