Zahra Goliaei

Dr. Zahra Goliaei earned her medical doctorate in Iran, and after moving to the United States, earned her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree here at the University of San Francisco, as one of the beginning cohorts. She continues working in both community-based and academic-based settings as a researcher in the field of health disparity, refuge, migrant health, and women’s health.

• Qualitative research
• Health education and consultation for immigrants and refugees
• Domestic violence consultant

• Migration health
• Refugee health
• Reproductive autonomy
• Health disparity

• Co-Chair/Research Committee/Caucus of Refugee and Immigrant Health,

• University of California Merced, PhD in Public Health, 2022
• University of San Francisco, MPH, 2015
• University of Tehran, MD, 2003

• University of California Merced,  Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, 2022
• Emerging Scholars in Family Planning, Society of Family Planning, 2020 
• SEED Grant award, Blum Center, University of California Merced, 2018

• 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)
• 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).
• 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)
• M. Gonzales, J. Kenny, T. Wright, Z. Goliaei, N. Burke, Oral Health Needs Assessment Madera County. (2018)