Journal Articles

Heather M. Wurtz and Goleen Samari. 2024. “Intimate Partnerships during COVID-19 for Immigrant Women in New York City.” Journal of Marriage and Family.

Goleen Samari, Heather M. Wurtz, Sheila Desai, and Kate Coleman-Minahan. 2024. “Perspectives from the Pandemic Epicenter: Sexual and Reproductive Health of Immigrants.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Goleen Samari, Heather M. Wurtz, Tara F. Abularrage, and Mienah Z. Sharif. 2024. “Structural Gendered Racism as Conceptualized by Immigrant Women in the United States.” Social Science & Medicine.

Heather M. Wurtz, Tara F. Abularrage, Anna-Michelle McSorley, Stephanie J. Rameau, and Goleen Samari. 2024. “We’ve reimagined the way we serve: Strategies of community-based organizations in New York City to support immigrant women during and after COVID-19.” Health Equity.

Stephanie Grilo, Monét Bryant, Samantha Garbers, Maggie Wiggin, Goleen Samari. 2024. “Effects of a Mentoring Program for BIPOC and First-Generation Public Health Students.” Public Health Reports.

Chen Liu, Kristen Underhill, Janice J. Aubey, Goleen Samari, Heidi L. Allen, Jamie R. Daw. 2024. “Disparities in mistreatment by care providers in childbirth: evidence from a multi-state survey.” JAMA Network Open.

Jean Guglielminotti, Ruth Landau, Allison Lee, Goleen Samari, and Guohua Li. 2024. “Structural racism and use of labor neuraxial analgesia among non-Hispanic Black birthing people.” Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Jaquelyn Jahn, Dougie Zubizarreta, Jarvis T. Chen, Belinda L. Needham, Goleen Samari, Alecia J. McGregor, Megan Daugherty Douglas, S. Bryn Austin, Samantha N. Bent Weber, and Madina Agénor. 2023. “Legislating Inequity: Structural Racism in Groups of State Laws and Associations with Premature Mortality Rates.” Health Affairs.

Jean Guglielminotti, Goleen Samari, Alexander M. Friedman, Ruth Landau, and Guohua Li. 2023. “State-level indicators of structural racism and severe adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth.” Maternal and Child Health Journal.  

Goleen Samari. 2023. “Anti-Muslim Racism: The Double Burden of Racism and Invisibility.” Chapter in Moving Against the Tides of Our Disciplines: Reformulating Our Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research with Youth. William T. Grant Foundation and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Goleen Samari, Heather M. Wurtz, and Kate Coleman-Minahan. 2023. “Disruptions in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Service Delivery for Immigrants during COVID-19.” Women’s Health Reports 4(1): 319-327.

Kate Coleman-Minahan, Melissa Villarreal , and Goleen Samari. 2023. “The role of legal status and uncertainty in the reproductive aspirations of 1.5- and second-generation immigrant young women: An exploratory study.” Journal of Migration and Health.

Goleen Samari, Monét Bryant, and Stephanie Grilo . 2022. “An Anti-Racism Public Health Graduate Mentorship Program: Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community.” Pedagogy in Health Promotion.

Goleen Samari, Amanda Nagle, and Kate Coleman-Minahan. 2021. Measuring Structural Xenophobia: Immigration Policy Climates Over Ten Years. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health.

Monika Damle, Heather M. Wurtz, and Goleen Samari. 2022. “Racism and Health Care: Experiences of Latinx Immigrant Women in NYC during COVID-19.” Social Science & Medicine Qualitative Research in Health.

Rachel Sapire, Jennifer Ostrowski, Malia Maier, Goleen Samari, Clarisa Bencomo & Terry McGovern. 2022. COVID-19 and gender-based violence service provision in the United States. PloS one, 17(2), e0263970.

Goleen Samari. 2021. Coming back and moving backwards: return migration and gender norms in Egypt. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(5), 1103-1118.

Trena I. Mukherjee, Angubeen Khan, Anindita Dasgupta, Goleen Samari. 2021. Reproductive justice in the time of COVID-19: a systematic review of the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health. Reproductive Health.

Amanda Nagle and Goleen Samari. 2021. State-Level Structural Sexism and Cesarean Sections in the United States. Social Science & Medicine.

Tanvi Jain, Jessica LaHote, Goleen Samari, and Samantha Garbers. 2021. Publicly-funded services providing sexual, reproductive, and maternal healthcare to immigrant women in the United States: A systematic review. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Malia Maier, Goleen Samari, Jennifer Ostrowski, Clarisa Bencomo, and Terry McGovern. 2021. Scrambling to figure out what to do: A Mixed Method Analysis of Covid-19’s Impact on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the United States. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health.

Goleen Samari, Ralph Catalano, Héctor E Alcalá, Alison Gemmill. 2020. The Muslim Ban and Preterm Birth: Analysis of US Vital Statistics Data from 2009 to 2018. Social Science & Medicine.

Goleen Samari, Mienah Z Sharif, Héctor E Alcalá. 2020. 2020. Racial and Citizenship Disparities in Health Care Among Middle Eastern Americans. Medical Care 58 (11): 974 - 980.

Sheila Desai and Goleen Samari. 2020. COVID-19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Corinne H. Rocca, Goleen Samari, Heather Gould, Katrina Kimport, and Diana G. Foster. 2020. “Emotions and Decision Rightness over Five Years following an abortion: An Examination of Decision Difficulty and Abortion Stigma.” Social Science and Medicine.

Goleen Samari, Diana G. Foster, Lauren Ralph, and Corinne H. Rocca. 2020. “Pregnancy Preferences and Contraceptive Use among US Women.” Contraception 101(2): 79 - 85. -Daniel R. Mishell, Jr, MD Most Outstanding Article in Contraception Award

Goleen Samari. 2019. “Education and Fertility in Egypt: Mediation by Women’s Empowerment.” Social Science & Medicine Population Health Special Issue on Gender, Empowerment, and Health.

Goleen Samari, Mienah Z. Sharif, and Héctor E. Alcalá. 2019. “Racialization of Religious Minorities.” Chapter in Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. Editors Chandra L. Ford, Derek M. Griffith, Marino A. Bruce and Keon L. Gilbert. APHA Press.

Mienah Z. Sharif, Goleen Samari, and Héctor E. Alcalá. 2019. “Variations in Access to Care after the Affordable Care Act among Different Immigrant Groups.” Journal of Community Health.

Goleen Samari. 2019. “Women’s Empowerment in Egypt: The Reliability of a Complex Construct.” Reproductive Health Matters.

Goleen Samari, Cohen, Rebecca, Mahesh Puri, Maya Blum, and Corinne H. Rocca. 2019. “Pharmacy Owner Perspectives on Medication Abortion in Nepal.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Goleen Samari, Héctor E. Alcalá, and Mienah Z. Sharif. 2018. “Islamophobia, Health and Public Health: A Systematic Literature Review.” American Journal of Public Health 108(6): e1 – e9.

Goleen Samari and Anne R. Pebley. 2018. “Longitudinal Determinants of Married Women’s Autonomy in Egypt.” Gender, Place & Culture 25(6): 799 – 820.

Goleen Samari, Miles McNall, KyungSook Lee, Harry Perlstadt, and Stephanie Nawyn. 2018. “Socioeconomic Status and the Physical and Mental Health of Arab and Chaldean Americans in Michigan.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health: 1 – 11.

Kate Coleman-Minahan and Goleen Samari. 2018. “He Supported Me 100%’: Mexican-immigrant Fathers, Daughters, and Adolescent Reproductive Health.” Ethnicity & Health: 1 – 20.

Goleen Samari. 2017. “First Birth and the Trajectory of Women’s Empowerment in Egypt.” BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 17(2): 362 – 374.

Goleen Samari and Kate Coleman-Minahan. 2017. “Parental Gender Expectations by Socioeconomic Status and Nativity: Implications for Contraceptive Use.” Sex Roles 78(9): 699 – 684. 

Goleen Samari. 2017. “Syrian Refugee Women’s Health in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan and Recommendations for Improved Practice.” World Medical & Health Policy 9(2): 255 – 274.

Goleen Samari. 2017. “Women’s Empowerment and Short and Long-acting Contraceptive Method Use in Egypt.” Culture, Health & Sexuality 20(4): 458 – 473.

Goleen Samari. 2017. “Women’s Agency and Fertility: Recent Evidence from Egypt.” Population Research & Policy Review 36(4): 561 – 582.

Héctor E. Alcalá, Mienah Z. Sharif, and Goleen Samari. 2017. “Social Determinants of Health, Terrorism, and Violent Radicalization: A Public Health Perspective.” Health Equity 1(1): 87 – 95.

Kek Khee Loo, Shemra Rizzo, Qiaolin Chen, Robert E. Weiss, Catherine A. Sugar, Grace Ettyang, Judith Ernst, Goleen Samari, and Charlotte G. Neumann. 2017. “Effects of Animal Source Food Supplementation on the Neurocognitive Outcomes of HIV-Affected School-Aged Children: A Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Intervention Trial in Kenya.” Family Medicine and Community Health 5(4):245-258.

Goleen Samari. 2016. “Islamophobia and Public Health in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health 106(11): 1920 – 1925.

Goleen Samari. 2016. “Cross-border Ties and Arab American Mental Health.” Social Science & Medicine 155: 93 – 101.

Goleen Samari and Judith A. Seltzer. 2016. “Risky Sexual Behavior of Foreign and Native-born Emerging Adults: The Long Reach of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Adolescence.” Social Science Research 60: 222.

Charlotte G. Neumann, Winstone Nyandiko, Abraham Siika, Natalie Drorbaugh, Goleen Samari, Grace Ettyang, and Judith Ernst. 2016. “Morbidity and Nutrition Status of Rural Drug-naïve Kenyan Women Living with HIV.” African Journal of AIDS Research 15(3): 283 – 291.

Loulou Kobeissi, Goleen Samari, Donatello Telesca, Mahtash Esfandiari, and Osman M. Galal. 2013. “The Impact of Breast Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes on Screening and Early Detection among an Immigrant Iranian Population in Southern California.” Journal of Religion and Health 53(6): 1756 – 1769.

Loulou Kobeissi, Rasha Hamra, Goleen Samari, Leila Koleilat, and Mohammad Khalifeh. 2012. “The 2009 Lebanese National Mammography Campaign: Results and Assessment using a Survey Design.” Epidemiology 2(1): 112 – 120.   

Giridhara R. Babu, Goleen Samari, Sharon P. Cohen, Tanmay Mahapatra, Randa M. Wahbe, Sherin Mermash, and Osman M. Galal. 2011. “Breast Cancer Screening among Females in Iran and Recommendations for Improved Practice: A Review.” Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 12(7): 1647 – 1655.  

Goleen Samari. 2010. “Review of Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics by Lisa Ann Richey.” African Studies Quarterly 11 (Issues 2 & 3): 166 – 168.