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Amir Afkhami

M.A., M.A., M.Phi, M.D., Ph.D.

Academic Profile

Amir A. Afkhami, MD, PhD, is an associate professor with joint appointments in psychiatry, global health, and history at the George Washington University. He is also the director of the pre-clinical education program at GWU's school of medicine/

Sample Publications

Afkhami, A. A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).

Afkhami, A. Gorentz, K. "Addressing the Invisible Affliction: An Assessment of Behavioral Health Services for Newly Resettled Refugees in the United States," Int. Migration & Integration (2018): 1-13.

Afkhami, A. "The sick men of Persia: The importance of illness as a factor in the interpretation of modern Iranian diplomatic history," J Iranian Studies 2003; 6:339-52.

 Afkhami, A. "Compromised constitutions: the Iranian experience with the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic," Bull Hist Med 2003; 77:367-92.

 

 

Scholarly Interests

modern Iran, history of medicine, history of public health, health diplomacy, psychiatry, education

Current Position

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, History, George Washington University