Cyrus Ghaznavi, MD
Resident Physician
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• American College of Physicians Michael M. Karl MD Book Award, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2023
• Endocrine Society Medical Student Achievement Award, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2023
• Jacques J. Bronfenbrenner Award, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2023
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2021
• 2019 Nippon Life – Japan Medical Society of America Scholarship, JMSA, 2019
• Edmund V. Cowdry Prize in Histology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2019
• Roy R. Peterson Prize in Anatomy, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2019
• Luce Scholars Program, The Henry Luce Foundation, 2017-2018

Education & Training

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• MD Medicine Washington University in St. Louis 05/2023
• BA Biology Rice University 05/2017
• Internal Medicine Residency University of California San Francisco

Interests

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• Global health
• Pandemics
• Japan
• STI
• Infectious diseases
• Immunocompromised hosts
• Sexual behavior
• Fertility
• Emerging viral infections

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Sex WorkersSodium, DietarySexual BehaviorSurveys and QuestionnairesJapanHeterosexualityDemographyCoitusSocioeconomic FactorsHomosexuality, MaleYoung AdultFertilityHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeSex WorkSexual Partners

• Sexual Inactivity in Japan: A Scoping Review.
  Journal of sex research 2025 Ueda P, Toki S, Nomura S, Pacher A, Ghaznavi C, Sakamoto H
• Modelling international spread of clade IIb mpox on the Asian continent.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2025 Asakura TR, Jung SM, Murayama H, Ghaznavi C, Sakamoto H, Teshima A, Miura F, Endo A
• Determinants of sodium intake knowledge and attitude: a cross-national analysis of socio-economic and health factors.
  Public health nutrition 2024 Rauniyar SK, Tanoue Y, Ghaznavi C, Hayabuchi H, Nishimura T, Takemi Y, Nomura S
• Factors associated with lifetime use of commercial sex work services among Japanese men aged 20-49: findings from a quasi-representative national survey, 2022.
  Sexually transmitted infections 2024 Ghaznavi C, Ueda P, Nomura S, Ishikane M, Uno S, Sakamoto H
• Trends in heterosexual inexperience among young adults in Japan: analysis of national surveys, 1987-2015.
  BMC public health 2019 Ghaznavi C, Sakamoto H, Yoneoka D, Nomura S, Shibuya K, Ueda P