Structural Xenophobia and Birth Outcomes: U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Perspectives

Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
University of Southern California

Goleen Samari is an Associate Professor and population health demographer in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California. Dr. Samari’s research focuses on several dimensions of structural inequalities and health. Her research considers how racism, gender inequities, and migration-based inequities shape reproductive and population health with a particular focus on immigrant communities and populations in or from the Middle East and North Africa. More recently, she’s been part of a new cohort of scholars who are uniquely conceptualizing and measuring structural racism, xenophobia, and sexism to better understand reproductive and population health in the United States. Dr. Samari has received several honors for her early career contributions to research on health equity. Dr. Samari earned a Ph.D. in public health, an MPH in community health sciences, and an MA in Islamic studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.