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Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH, FASTMH

Professor of Global Health, Medicine, & International Affairs, GWU, MSSM, NYU, MSF
Verified email at email.gwu.edu
Cited by 1766

Barriers to health care access among refugee asylum seekers

R Asgary, N Segar - Journal of health care for the poor and …, 2011 - muse.jhu.edu
Objective. Asylum seekers have poor access to health care. Qualitative data portraying their
experience is lacking. Methods. We conducted focus groups and comprehensive interviews …

New trends of short-term humanitarian medical volunteerism: professional and ethical considerations

R Asgary, E Junck - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
Short-term humanitarian medical volunteerism has grown significantly among both clinicians
and trainees over the past several years. Increasingly, both volunteers and their respective …

Systematic review of prevention and management strategies for the consequences of gender-based violence in refugee settings

R Asgary, E Emery, M Wong - International health, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Uncertainties continue regarding effective strategies to prevent and address the consequences
of gender-based violence (GBV) among refugees. The databases of PubMed, Cochrane …

Perceptions, attitudes, and experience regarding mHealth among homeless persons in New York City shelters

R Asgary, B Sckell, A Alcabes, R Naderi… - Journal of health …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Mobile health may be an effective means of providing access and education to the millions
of homeless Americans. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 50 homeless people …

Rates and predictors of uncontrolled hypertension among hypertensive homeless adults using New York City shelter-based clinics

R Asgary, B Sckell, A Alcabes, R Naderi… - The Annals of Family …, 2016 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE We undertook a study to determine the rates, predictors, and barriers to blood
pressure control among homeless and nonhomeless hypertensive adult patients from 10 New …

Cancer screening in the homeless population

R Asgary - The Lancet Oncology, 2018 - thelancet.com
Annually, 100 million people experience homelessness worldwide. Most adults that are
struggling with homelessness are living to age 50 years or older and need age-appropriate …

Acceptability and implementation challenges of smartphone-based training of community health nurses for visual inspection with acetic acid in Ghana: mHealth and …

R Asgary, H Cole, P Adongo, A Nwameme, E Maya… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To explore acceptability and feasibility of smartphone-based training of low-level
to mid-level health professionals in cervical cancer screening using visual inspection with …

Colorectal cancer screening among the homeless population of New York City shelter-based clinics

R Asgary, V Garland… - American Journal of …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Asgary performed the statistical analysis. R. Asgary and B. Sckell provided technical and
material support … Asgary and V. Garland drafted the article and critically revised it with B. Sckell. …

mHealth to train community health nurses in visual inspection with acetic acid for cervical cancer screening in Ghana

R Asgary, PB Adongo, A Nwameme… - Journal of Lower …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective There is a shortage of trained health care personnel for cervical cancer screening
in low-/middle-income countries. We evaluated the feasibility and limited efficacy of a …

Opt-out patient navigation to improve breast and cervical cancer screening among homeless women

R Asgary, R Naderi, J Wisnivesky - Journal of Women's Health, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Background: A patient navigation model was implemented to improve breast and cervical
cancer screening among women who were homeless in five shelters and shelter clinics in …