A5042573174- Migration, Health and Trauma
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Sex work and related issues
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Race, History, and American Society
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
Brigham Young University
2016-2025
Columbia University
2011-2018
Hudson Institute
2018
Drexel University
2017
Global Health Research Center of Central Asia
2014-2016
International Rescue Committee
2008-2009
Objectives We examined whether mobility, migrant status, and risk environments are associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) HIV behaviors (e.g. sex trading, multiple partners, unprotected sex). Methods used Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) to recruit external male market vendors from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan as well internal non-migrant Kazakhstan. conducted multivariate logistic regressions examine the effects of mobility combined interaction between migration status...
The high rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimisation found among substance-using women receiving community supervision underscores the need for effective IPV screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment services (SBIRT) this population.This randomised controlled trial (RCT) aims assess feasibility, safety efficacy a single-session computerised self-paced SBIRT (Computerised WINGS) in identifying under increasing access services, compared same service delivered by case...
Project Renaissance is a randomized controlled trial of an HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV)/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention intervention conducted in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We hypothesized that couples assigned to the interest will have lower incidence HIV, HCV, STIs, rates unprotected sex, and unsafe injection over 12-month follow-up period compared with those attention control arm.
To test the efficacy of a computerized, group-based HIV and intimate partner violence (IPV) intervention on reducing IPV victimization among substance-using women mandated to community corrections.Between November 2009 January 2012, we randomly allocated 306 from corrections in New York City 3 study arms computerized prevention trial: (1) 4 group sessions with self-paced modules (Computerized Women Road Health [WORTH]), (2) traditional covering same content as Computerized WORTH without...
Forcibly displaced persons confront multiple stressors while awaiting permanent asylum or resettlement and often experience high levels of emotional distress. This study assessed an 8-week somatic-focused culturally adapted cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) group intervention with 39 female refugees from Afghanistan living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Twenty-nine participants were randomly assigned to treatment conditions, resulting 20 two separate groups 9 a waitlist control group. An...
The notion of America as land refuge is vital to American civic consciousness yet over the past seventy years country has had a complicated and sometimes fickle relationship with its refugee populations. Attitudes policies toward refugees from government, voluntary organizations, general public have ranged acceptance rejection; well-wrought program efforts botched ones. Drawing on wide range contemporary historical material, based author's three-decade experience in research policy, Safe...
With millions of women experiencing forced displacement, attention is needed toward migrant women’s lived experiences. Religion an understudied but central component coping for many women. Through the use qualitative and quantitative methods, exploratory study was conducted with 36 Shia Muslim residing in a predominantly Sunni country first asylum. Using brief Multidimensional Measure Religiousness/Spirituality drawing from feminist theory, intersectionality, ecological framework, we...
Malay-Muslim men who have sex with (MSM) are marginalized and hidden in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country southeast Asia. We explored the policy, network, community, individual factors related to HIV infection among MSM through 26 in-depth interviews one focus group discussion (n = 5) conducted Kuala Lumpur Kota Bharu between October 2013 January 2014. As religion plays an important role their lives, participants viewed homosexuality as sin. Low risk perception misconceptions about...
This mixed-gender and multi-method analysis examined gendered experiences among resettled refugees (n = 88) in the United States. Quantitative analyses revealed significant gender differences, with women reporting lower levels of employment higher emotional distress. The qualitative generated three themes: (1) shifting expanding expectations women, (2) disparities education, (3) discrimination. Study findings elucidate ways how shapes lived outcomes refugees. discussion examines implications...
.Individuals who come to the United States as refugees and work resettlement caseworkers offer peer support, modeling, assistance with integration newly arriving refugees, despite often having limited training or experience in social service provision. A phenomenological approach was utilized gain understanding about experiences of refugee caseworkers. Nine came completed in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis used identify primary themes, including: a) caseworker's bridge-building role...
Migrants' sense of belonging in their country and community residence has direct effects on health wellbeing. A diverse set case studies suggest that legal immigration status plays a primary role shaping migrants' opportunities for experiences belonging. Few these studies, though, have examined migrants with varied statuses living the same receiving context, limiting our understanding if how migrant interacts other factors to shape access settling host community. To address this gap, we...
Abstract Introduction : Cisgender and transgender woman sex workers (CWSWs TWSWs, respectively) are key populations in Malaysia with higher HIV‐prevalence than that of the general population. Given impact economic instability can have on HIV transmission these populations, novel prevention interventions reduce poverty may incidence improve linkage retention to care for those already living HIV. We examine feasibility a microfinance‐based intervention among CWSW TWSWs Greater Kuala Lumpur,...
Although the incidence of HIV among women on probation, parole and alternatives to incarceration programs is significant public health, drivers this concentrated epidemic under community corrections remain understudied. This study examined prevalence sexually transmitted infections associations between substance use, socio-demographic factors biologically-confirmed other a sample 337 substance-using recruited from correction sites in New York City. Prevalence was 13% 26% ( Chlamydia,...