Zahra Goliaei, MD, MPH, PhD

She/Her/Hers

Areas of Expertise

• Migrant and refugee health
• Women's sexual and reproductive health
• Reproductive Health Literacy
• Reproductive Autonomy
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Women empowerment
• Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Global Health, Health Access, Health Education

Biography

My research interests are refugee and migrant health, refugee women's reproductive health empowerment, reproductive autonomy, and Intimate Partner violence.

Education

• Doctoral of Philosophy, School of Public Health, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
• Master of Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Doctor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Honors and Awards

• Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
• Emerging Scholars in Family Planning, Society of Family Planning
• SEED Grant award, Blum Center For Alleviating Poverty and Social Disparity

Recent Publications

Goliaei, Z.; Chaban, Z.; Amrei, S.A.M.; Pashmineh Azar, Y.; Afzal, L.; Hakim, R.; Al-Ani, H.A.; Koga, P.M.; Guggenbickler, A.M. Post-Resettlement Intimate Partner Domestic Violence in Afghan and Arab Refugees: A Scoping Review. Soc. Sci. 2023, 12, 651. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12120651

Goliaei Z, Gonzalez M, Diaz Rios K, Pokhrel M, Burke NJ. Post-Resettlement Food Insecurity: Afghan Refugees and Challenges of the New Environment. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 May 17;20(10):5846. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105846

Thiel de Bocanegra, H., Goliaei, Z., Khan, N. et al. Refugee Women's Receptiveness for Virtual Engagement on Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int.J. Behav. Med. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-022-10097-3

H. Thiel De Bocanegra, N Khan, S Mody, Z Goliaei, S Banna, Community Readiness for Virtual Health Engagement, ReproNet, 2021

M. Gonzales,, S. Loewen, T. Wright, J. Kenny, E. Ramirez, S. Alnahari, Z. Goliaei, N. Burke, R. Nanyonjo, Assessing Oral Health Related Issues in Merced County, 2018. https://www.co.merced.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/26674/LOHP-Needs-Assessment-MercedCounty?bidId=

M. Gonzales, J. Kenny, T. Wright, Z. Goliaei, N. Burke, Oral Health Needs Assessment Madera County, 2018, https://www.maderacounty.com/home/showpublisheddocument/17038/637003609820230000

MM Bonab, Z Goliaei, K Alimoghaddam, A Ghavamzade, Evaluation of the effect of Maternal and Neonatal Factors on Cord Blood Parameters? International Journal of Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research, 20-23

Mohyeddin Bonab. M, Alimoghaddam. K, Goliaei. Z & Ghavamzadeh. A, Which Factor Can affect Cord Blood variables? Transfusion, 2004; 44(5):690-3.

K. Alimoghaddam, M. Mohyeddin, S. Vatandoust, Z. Goliaei, P. Alijanipour, F. Forouzia, Ex vivo-expansion of cord blood cells and its clinical application, Yakhteh,1,8,2006

MK ALI, M Mohyedin, DS VATAN, ZA GOLIAEI, P Alijanipour, F Forouzia, Ex vivo Expansion of Cord Blood Cells and Its Clinical Application, CELL JOURNAL (YAKHTEH) 8 (331), 210-218 https://celljournal.org/library/upload/article/210-218.ps.pdf

M Mohyeddin, K Alimoghaddam, P Alijanipour, Z Goliaei, Is there a higher chance of finding HLA-identical unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors among thalassemia families for transplantation of thalassemia patients?, Bone Marrow Transplantation 31

Memberships and Affiliations

• California Refugee Reproductive Health Network (ReproNet)
• Caucus of Refugee and Migrant Health