Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
New York University
Dept of Medicine
227 E30th St
New York, NY
USA 10016

Biographical Sketch: Ramin graduated from Tehran University School of Medicine, completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Social Medicine at Montefiore-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and did his Preventive Medicine/ Clinical Public Health fellowship at Mount Sinai. He completed his MPH in Refugee Health/Management of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies in Columbia University, and a MPH in Community Medicine at Mount Sinai. His training in Tropical Medicine and Travel Health was at Johns Hopkins University. In global public health, his main area of interest/expertise is in international humanitarian assistance/relief work with emphasis on refugee situations. Ramin has worked as medical coordinator/program officer with Doctors without Borders since 1997 for Afghan refugees, and in Georgia, and war-torn area of Abkhazia, Sudan (Darfur), and with MENTOR in Somalia/Kenya borders, and Haiti. Since 2001, he has been evaluating torture survivors in a human rights clinic, teaching clinical human rights, and advocating for asylum seekers. He developed and directed the Montefiore’s Global Health course for residents, and co-founded and coordinated the Montefiore’s refugee/immigrant clinic. In addition to teaching Evidence-based Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Clinical Decision making, he teaches Tropical Medicine, Immigrant Health and Refugee Health course in the MPH program and medical school. He runs projects in India, Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Argentina. Ramin mentors students and residents in international and or community health projects, and is currently an assistant professor in the Dept of Preventive Medicine and the Center for Global Health at Mount Sinai.

Papers:
3094.0 Oral health status, behaviors and knowledge among HIV-positive children in addis ababa, Ethiopia 4394.0 Ethical experiences and dilemmas of career medical aid workers; Characteristics and determinants 4430.0 Cervical cancer screening: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among New York city homeless women 5000.2 Colorectal cancer screening in the population of two NYC homeless shelter based clinics 5022.0 An educational curriculum to train graduate public health students in health and human rights and health needs of asylum seekers/torture survivors; Domestic global public health 5055.0 Quantitative and qualitative assessments of malnutrition in children under 5 and barriers to effective nutrition from mother's perspectives in Madagascar