Goleen Samari
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Samari’s research focuses on several dimensions of structural inequalities and health. Her research considers how racism, gender inequities, and migration-based inequities shape reproductive and population health with a particular focus on immigrant communities and populations in or from the Middle East and North Africa. She's been part of a new cohort of scholars uniquely conceptualizing and measuring structural racism, xenophobia, and sexism to understand reproductive and population health.
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Examines patterns of contraceptive choices over time in Egypt and uses indicators of women's agency to explore how women's empowerment is associated with the choice of contraceptive methods.
Examines whether cross border ties to countries of origin expand immigrant social ties and subsequent implications for mental health.
Explores the vulnerabilities of Syrian women and girls in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, and how these countries approach Syrian refugee women's reproductive health care, based on an assessment of academic literature and international policy and development reports.
Examines longitudinally the relationship between women's agency and fertility in Egypt during periods of time before and after the Arab Spring uprisings.
Considers the recent rise in Islamophobia in the United States and provides a public health perspective on the stigmatized identity of Muslim Americans and health implications of Islamophobic discrimination.