Goleen Samari
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163287 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Goleen Samari |
| NOMBRES | Goleen |
| APELLIDO | Samari |
| FIRMA | SAMARI G |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9506-3586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Experiences of Discrimination and DNA Methylation Among Black Nulliparous Women
Exposure to racial discrimination is a well-documented risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes. It is hypothesized that this association occurs through epigenetic changes. Researchers have identified associations between perceived discrimination and methylation of stress-response genes among racially and ethnically minoritized women. However, findings are limited by small sample sizes and inclusion of women who are several years postpartum. Li…
Anticipatory, Chronic, and Imminent
Protracted armed conflicts increasingly drive long‐term displacement, yet demographic frameworks often treat forced migration from conflict settings as a response to acute, singular events. This study introduces a typology of displacement grounded in the tempo and form of conflict‐related insecurities—anticipatory, chronic, and imminent—and examines their consequences for women displaced from Myanmar to Thailand. Using survey data from 390 women,…
Transforming academic public health mentorship
Persistent systemic inequities disproportionately impact BIPOC, first-generation, and international students in graduate public health education. Despite institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments, these students frequently encounter structural barriers such as limited mentorship, inadequate faculty representation, marginalization, and restricted access to academic resources. The Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community (MOSAI…
Implementation and sustainability of mentorship for public health student success
Historically underrepresented and marginalized (URM) graduate students in public health, including students of color, first-generation, and international students, often face structural inequities such as limited representation among faculty, insufficient professional networks, and lack of structured mentorship. In response, the Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community (MOSAIC) program was established in 2019 at Columbia University’s Mailman …
Blood Transfusions for Pregnancy Loss in Texas Before and After Abortion Bans, 2017‒2023
Objectives. To measure changes in blood transfusion related to pregnancy loss in Texas after the 2021 Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which banned abortion after the detection of fetal cardiac activity (6-week ban), and the ban that was enforced after the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Supreme Court decision, which banned abortion at all gestational durations (total ban). Methods. We used administrative data from all Texas hospital, emergency, and ambulatory surgical…
Responding to structural inequities
Examining coping strategies and resilience among immigrant communities reflects a commitment to working with immigrant communities to understand their needs while also identifying and building upon their strengths. In the United States, the physical, emotional, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic intersected with existing structural inequities to produce distinct challenges and stressors related to the pandemic, immigration, caregiving …
Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health eq…
“ We've Reimagined the Way We Serve ”
Introduction: Community-based organizations (CBOs) played a critical role in meeting the needs of immigrants during COVID-19. Immigrant women experienced a disproportionate burden of the social, economic, and health impacts of the pandemic as a result of intersecting vulnerabilities and constrained access to resources and services. Although extant literature has shed light on some of the key responses by CBOs during COVID-19, less is known about …
“ The panic stays in your mind…concentrating more on the worries than the relationship ”
Our analysis demonstrates ways that structural inequity, particularly driven by exclusionary immigration laws, influence intimate partner relationships through the legal status of immigrant women. Understanding how structural oppression shapes immigrant partnerships is essential for the field of family demography and for family-serving professionals in referring clients to resources and services, as well as helping women explore sources of resili…
What’s driving girls’ adolescent marriage decline in Rakai, Uganda? The interplay between adolescent pregnancies and social determinants, 1999 – 2018
Few studies have sought to untangle the influence of social determinants and pregnancy on adolescent marriage declines. Using longitudinal data from 15- to 17-year-old girls in the Rakai Community Cohort Survey, we assessed how education, socio-economic status, orphanhood and pregnancy contributed to trends in adolescent marriage. We examined descriptive trends and logistic regressions of the associations between social determinants and adolescen…
Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter
Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape
Associations between Individual- and Structural-Level Racism and Gestational Age at Birth in the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
State-Level Indicators of Structural Racism and Severe Adverse Maternal Outcomes During Childbirth
The role of legal status and uncertainty in the reproductive aspirations of 1.5 and second generation Mexican-origin immigrant young women
Temporary legal status constrains young women's reproductive aspirations by limiting their ability to achieve desired forms of stability prior to parenting and making the thought of parenting frightening. More research is needed to further develop this novel conceptual model
Racism and health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minoritized racial groups, especially Latinx immigrants, evidenced by the high rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among this population. With increasing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in parallel to the pandemic, it is critical to understand the perspectives of Latinx populations. This study explores Latinx immigrant women's perceptions of racism and xenophobia…
Abortion Criminalization
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…
Unmasking power as foundational to research on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Relations of power are intrinsic to the social \ndeterminants of sexual and reproductive \nhealth (SRH); they influence the content, \nquality and outcomes of SRH care; and they \nshape the negotiation and realisation of \nsexual and reproductive health and rights \n(SRHR) more broadly. Power dynamics \npervade how SRHR is understood, studied \nand acted on, in ways that are distinct from \nother health issues.1 For example, the deeply \nheld per…
Measuring structural xenophobia
There is an increasing need to understand the structural drivers of immigrant health inequities, including xenophobic and racist policies at the state level in the United States. Databases aggregate state policies related to immigration and research using single year indices examines state policy and immigrant health. Yet none of these sources use a theoretically informed social determinants of immigrant health approach to consider state environm…
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States
Coming back and moving backwards
This study examines how gender norms and household gender dynamics are modified in Egypt as a result of male return migration from other Arab Countries. Data come from the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. For 7,314 married couples in 2006 and 8,992 married couples in 2012, treatment effects regression models of gender norms and household decision-making and return migration are estimated. Egyptian women with spouses who have migr…
Covid ‐19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States
In recent months, some of the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care needs, decisions and access across the globe have become evident.1, 2 In the United States, the Trump administration has unjustly blamed migrants for the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting this public health crisis to further its long-standing xenophobic agenda and prompting a de facto shutdown of the U.S. immigration system. Y…
Racial and Citizenship Disparities in Health Care Among Middle Eastern Americans
OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in health access and utilization among Middle Eastern American adults by White racial identity and citizenship. METHODS: Data from the 2011 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys (N=1013) and survey-weighted logistic regression analyses compare Middle Eastern immigrants by race and citizenship on access and utilization of health care in the United States. RESULTS: White respondents had 71% lower odds of delayin…
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion
These results add to the scientific evidence that emotions about an abortion are associated with personal and social context, and are not a product of the abortion procedure itself. Findings challenge the rationale for policies regulating access to abortion that are premised on emotional harm claims
Islamophobia and Public Health in the United States
Anti-Muslim sentiments are increasingly common globally and in the United States. The recent rise in Islamophobia calls for a public health perspective that considers the stigmatized identity of Muslim Americans and health implications of Islamophobic discrimination. Drawing on a stigma, discrimination, and health framework, I expand the dialogue on the rise of Islamophobia to a discussion of how Islamophobia affects the health of Muslim American…
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion
These results add to the scientific evidence that emotions about an abortion are associated with personal and social context, and are not a product of the abortion procedure itself. Findings challenge the rationale for policies regulating access to abortion that are premised on emotional harm claims
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States
Coming back and moving backwards
This study examines how gender norms and household gender dynamics are modified in Egypt as a result of male return migration from other Arab Countries. Data come from the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. For 7,314 married couples in 2006 and 8,992 married couples in 2012, treatment effects regression models of gender norms and household decision-making and return migration are estimated. Egyptian women with spouses who have migr…
Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States
Abortion Criminalization
The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…
Covid ‐19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States
In recent months, some of the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care needs, decisions and access across the globe have become evident.1, 2 In the United States, the Trump administration has unjustly blamed migrants for the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting this public health crisis to further its long-standing xenophobic agenda and prompting a de facto shutdown of the U.S. immigration system. Y…
Cross-border ties and Arab American mental health
He supported me 100%’
Objective: First and second generation Mexican-origin adolescents in the U.S. face social and economic disadvantage and sexual health disparities. Although fathers can support child and adolescent development, the literature has portrayed Mexican-origin immigrant fathers as emotionally distant and sexist. This study aims to treat migration as a social determinant of health to examine father-daughter relationships and adolescent sexual health in M…
Longitudinal determinants of married women’s autonomy in Egypt
This article explores determinants of women's autonomy in Egypt around the beginning of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011. We show that women's autonomy over time is a product not only of their individual characteristics, but also of the household and community environment in which they live. Using the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) and multilevel models, results demonstrate that women's autonomy changes over time. There are lar…
Parental Gender Expectations by Socioeconomic Status and Nativity
Risky sexual behavior of foreign and native-born women in emerging adulthood
Women’s Agency and Fertility
Perspectives from the pandemic epicenter
Understanding how immigrant women's SRH shifted in response to the structural and policy constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic can reveal how historically marginalized communities will be impacted by an increasingly restrictive reproductive health and immigration policy landscape
Associations between Individual- and Structural-Level Racism and Gestational Age at Birth in the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study
P1-75 The 2009 Lebanese national mammography campaign
Introduction The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has been organising subsidised annual mammography campaigns every October, since 2002, in all participating radiology centers (public and private) in Lebanon. Methods This paper describes the characteristics of women (from all over Lebanon) attending the 2009 MoPH mammography campaign, explores factors influencing first-time participation, and assesses the campaign's effectiveness. Data f…
The Impact of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes on Screening and Early Detection Among an Immigrant Iranian Population in Southern California
Morbidity and nutrition status of rural drug-naïve Kenyan women living with HIV
This paper describes morbidity in a group of HIV-positive drug-naïve rural women in western Kenya. A total of 226 drug-naïve HIV-positive women were evaluated for baseline morbidity, immune function, and anthropometry before a food-based nutrition intervention. Kenyan nurses visited women in their homes and conducted semi-structured interviews regarding symptoms and physical signs experienced at the time of the visit and during the previous week …
Islamophobia and Public Health in the United States
Anti-Muslim sentiments are increasingly common globally and in the United States. The recent rise in Islamophobia calls for a public health perspective that considers the stigmatized identity of Muslim Americans and health implications of Islamophobic discrimination. Drawing on a stigma, discrimination, and health framework, I expand the dialogue on the rise of Islamophobia to a discussion of how Islamophobia affects the health of Muslim American…
Cross-border ties and Arab American mental health
Risky sexual behavior of foreign and native-born women in emerging adulthood
Social Determinants of Health, Violent Radicalization, and Terrorism
Parental Gender Expectations by Socioeconomic Status and Nativity
Women’s Agency and Fertility
Pharmacy Provision of Medication Abortion in Nepal
CONTEXT: Medication abortion has the potential to transform the provision of safe abortion care in low- and middle-income countries, and can be provided with minimal clinical skills and equipment. In Nepal, first-trimester abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol is legally available at government-certified health facilities, but little is known about pharmacy workers' perspectives regarding pharmacy-based provision. METHODS: In-depth intervie…
Socioeconomic Status and the Physical and Mental Health of Arab and Chaldean Americans in Michigan
Women’s empowerment and short- and long-acting contraceptive method use in Egypt
Egypt is ranked one of the most gender unequal countries, and fertility is at a two-decade high of 3.5 births per woman. Women's empowerment is a strategy used to promote contraceptive use and lower fertility, yet evidence from the Middle East is limited. This study uses 2005, 2008 and 2014 Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey data to examine recent patterns of contraceptive method choice and how women's empowerment is associated with contracep…
Islamophobia, Health, and Public Health
Background. In 2017, a “Muslim ban” on immigrants to the United States was coupled with a continued rise in Islamophobia and hate crimes toward Muslims. Islamophobia undermines health equity, yet delineating the effects of Islamophobia globally is challenging as it affects a myriad of groups (geographically, racially, and socially). Additionally, stereotypes equate all Muslims with populations from the Middle East and South Asia. To date, health …
He supported me 100%’
Objective: First and second generation Mexican-origin adolescents in the U.S. face social and economic disadvantage and sexual health disparities. Although fathers can support child and adolescent development, the literature has portrayed Mexican-origin immigrant fathers as emotionally distant and sexist. This study aims to treat migration as a social determinant of health to examine father-daughter relationships and adolescent sexual health in M…
Longitudinal determinants of married women’s autonomy in Egypt
This article explores determinants of women's autonomy in Egypt around the beginning of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011. We show that women's autonomy over time is a product not only of their individual characteristics, but also of the household and community environment in which they live. Using the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) and multilevel models, results demonstrate that women's autonomy changes over time. There are lar…
Education and fertility in Egypt
In 2006, fertility in Egypt reached a two-decade low of 3 births per woman; however, by 2008, the demographic transition reversed, and fertility has remained higher at 3.5 births per woman. Low educational achievement is linked to high fertility. Education is also important in the process of women's empowerment, suggesting that educational achievement lowers fertility through gains in women's agency. However, no studies test this pathway, and evi…
Covid ‐19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States
In recent months, some of the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care needs, decisions and access across the globe have become evident.1, 2 In the United States, the Trump administration has unjustly blamed migrants for the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting this public health crisis to further its long-standing xenophobic agenda and prompting a de facto shutdown of the U.S. immigration system. Y…
Racial and Citizenship Disparities in Health Care Among Middle Eastern Americans
OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in health access and utilization among Middle Eastern American adults by White racial identity and citizenship. METHODS: Data from the 2011 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys (N=1013) and survey-weighted logistic regression analyses compare Middle Eastern immigrants by race and citizenship on access and utilization of health care in the United States. RESULTS: White respondents had 71% lower odds of delayin…
The Muslim Ban and preterm birth
Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion
These results add to the scientific evidence that emotions about an abortion are associated with personal and social context, and are not a product of the abortion procedure itself. Findings challenge the rationale for policies regulating access to abortion that are premised on emotional harm claims
Unmasking power as foundational to research on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Relations of power are intrinsic to the social \ndeterminants of sexual and reproductive \nhealth (SRH); they influence the content, \nquality and outcomes of SRH care; and they \nshape the negotiation and realisation of \nsexual and reproductive health and rights \n(SRHR) more broadly. Power dynamics \npervade how SRHR is understood, studied \nand acted on, in ways that are distinct from \nother health issues.1 For example, the deeply \nheld per…
Measuring structural xenophobia
There is an increasing need to understand the structural drivers of immigrant health inequities, including xenophobic and racist policies at the state level in the United States. Databases aggregate state policies related to immigration and research using single year indices examines state policy and immigrant health. Yet none of these sources use a theoretically informed social determinants of immigrant health approach to consider state environm…
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States
Coming back and moving backwards
This study examines how gender norms and household gender dynamics are modified in Egypt as a result of male return migration from other Arab Countries. Data come from the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. For 7,314 married couples in 2006 and 8,992 married couples in 2012, treatment effects regression models of gender norms and household decision-making and return migration are estimated. Egyptian women with spouses who have migr…
Racism and health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minoritized racial groups, especially Latinx immigrants, evidenced by the high rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among this population. With increasing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in parallel to the pandemic, it is critical to understand the perspectives of Latinx populations. This study explores Latinx immigrant women's perceptions of racism and xenophobia…
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