Recent Publications
Costa, D., Scharpf, F., Weiss, A., Ayanian, A., Bozorgmehr, K. Intimate partner violence during COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis according to methodological choices. BMC Public Health 2024; 24(313).
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Biddle L, Hintermeier M, Costa D, Wasko Z, Bozorgmehr K. Context, health and migration: a systematic review of natural experiments. eClinicalMedicine.
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Wahedi, K., Zenner, D., Flores, S., Bozorgmehr, K. Mandatory, voluntary, repetitive, or one-off post-migration follow-up for tuberculosis prevention and control: A systematic review. PLOS Medicine. 2023;20(1).
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Ongoing Reviews
Niklas Nutsch, Kerstin Schmidt, Nils Robson, Kübra Altinok, Anna Christina Nowak, Kayvan Bozorgmehr. Social Capital and Mental Health of Adult Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023484028.
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Katja Kajikhina, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Sven Rohleder, Kerstin Schmidt, Michal Hudák, Marius Tönsmann, Ariane Schmedding-Willmann, Rebecca Zöllner, Manuela Schade, Christina Strauß, Philipp Mathé, Claudia Hövener, Stella Duwendag. Evidence on the non-intended consequences of mandatory vaccination policies: a systematic review of reviews. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023393851.
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Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Zahia Wasko, Michael Knipper, Sven Rohleder, Abdelkrim Boukachabia, Reem Mussa. Pushback practices and violence towards migrants crossing European borders: protocol for a rapid systematic review. PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022369975.
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Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Maren Hintermeier, Nora Gottlieb, Amir Mohsenpour, Sven Rohleder, Renke Biallas, Louise Biddle. Unintended consequences of public health and social measures implemented in the setting of reception and collective accommodation centres for refugees to prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and its consequences. PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022384673.
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Nora Gottlieb, Andreas W. Gold, Niklas Nutsch, Stella Duwendag, Kayvan Bozorgmehr. The electronic health insurance card for asylum-seekers in Germany: Systematic review of empirical studies on effects on health, health care, and health system outcomes. PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022309943.
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Maren Hintermeier, Amir Mohsenpour, Nora Gottlieb, Sergio Flores, Rohleder Sven, Sweetmavourneen Pernitez-Agan, Janice Lopez, Kolitha Wickramage, Kayvan Bozorgmehr. Refugees, migrants, internally displaced people and COVID-19: protocol for an updated systematic review. PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021296952.
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Completed Reviews
Costa, D., Scharpf, F., Weiss, A., Ayanian, A., Bozorgmehr, K. Intimate partner violence during COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis according to methodological choices. BMC Public Health 2024; 24(313).
Link to article
Biddle L, Hintermeier M, Costa D, Wasko Z, Bozorgmehr K. Context, health and migration: a systematic review of natural experiments. eClinicalMedicine.
Link to article
Wahedi K, Zenner D, Flores S, Bozorgmehr K. Mandatory, voluntary, repetitive, or one-off post-migration follow-up for tuberculosis prevention and control: A systematic review. PLOS Medicine. 2023;20(1).
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Jahn R, Hintermeier M, & Bozorgmehr K. SARS-CoV-2 attack rate in reception and accommodation centres for asylum seekers during the first wave: systematic review of outbreak media reports in Germany. Journal of Migration and Health. 2022;5:100084.
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Mohsenpour A, Bozorgmehr K, Rohleder S, Stratil J, Costa D. SARS-Cov-2 prevalence, transmission, health-related outcomes and control strategies in homeless shelters: Systematic review and meta-analysis. eClinicalMedicine. 2021;38.
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Hintermeier M, Gencer H, Kajikhina K, Rohleder S, Hövener C, Tallarek M, Spallek J, Bozorgmehr K. SARS-CoV-2 among migrants and forcibly displaced populations: A rapid systematic review. Journal of Migration and Health. 2021;4:100056.
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Biddle L, Wahedi K, Bozorgmehr K. Health system resilience: a literature review of empirical research. Health Policy Plan. 2020;35(8):1084-1109.
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RRRUn Reports
Bozorgmehr K, Hintermeier M, Gottlieb ND, Mohsenpour A, Biddle LR. Interim Report. Unintended consequences of public health and social measures implemented in the setting of reception and collective accommodation centres for refugees to prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and its consequences (UNICORE-RESYST) (Technical Report). Evidence Synthesis Series. Vol 2023-01. Bielefeld: Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG Bevölkerungsmedizin und Versorgungsforschung, Rapid Review Response Unit (RRRUn); 2023.
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Mohsenpour A, Bozorgmehr K, Rohleder S, Stratil J, Costa D. SARS-CoV-2 Infektionen und Kontrollstrategien bei Menschen, die von Wohnungslosigkeit betroffen sind (Policy Brief). Evidence Synthesis Series. Vol 2021-01. Bielefeld: Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, AG Bevölkerungsmedizin und Versorgungsforschung, Rapid Review Response Unit (RRRUn); 2021.
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Preprints
Hintermeier, M., Gottlieb, N., Rohleder, S., Oppenberg, J., Baroudi, M., Pernitez-Agan, S., Lopez, J., Flores, S., Mohsenpour, A., Wickramage, K., Bozorgmehr, K (2023). COVID-19 among migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons: systematic review, meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis of the global empirical literature. medRxiv 2023.08.03.23293586
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Biddle, L, Hintermeier, M., Costa, D., Wasko, Z., & Bozorgmehr, K. (2023). Context and health: a systematic review of natural experiments among migrant populations. medRxiv 2023.01.18.23284665
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