Na'amah Razon, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

Dr. Na'amah Razon is a medical anthropologist and family physician studying health policy to advance health equity. Her work has focused on the implementation of national health care in Israel and its intersection with minority communities. Her current work examines the ethics and complexity of integrating social determinants of health into clinical practice.

Education & Training

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• BSc, BA Biological Science and Cultural and Social Anthropology Stanford University
• Residency Family and Community Medicine University of California San Francisco
• PhD Medical Anthropology University of California, Berkeley & San Francisco
• Fellowship Health Policy University of California, San Francisco
• MD Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Interests

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• Qualitative methods
• primary care
• health policy
• health disparities
• social determinants of health

Publications (17)

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Health Care ReformJewsHealth PolicyAbortion, InducedAbortion, SpontaneousGuidelines as TopicHypertensionAnthropology, MedicalInternship and ResidencyFamily Planning ServicesSocial Determinants of HealthIsraelFamily PracticeArabsMass Screening

• Extra/ordinary medicine: Toward an anthropology of primary care.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2024 Sideman AB, Razon N
• "They Go Hand in Hand": Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Core Values of Family Medicine and Abortion Provision Among Family Physicians Who Do Not Oppose Abortion.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2023 Wulf S, Carvajal DN, Razon N, Perez C, McNeil S, Maldonado L, Fields AB, Silverstein I, Dehlendorf C
• The work of reform: a critical examination of health policy.
  Anthropology & medicine 2023 Razon N, Sideman AB
• Social Care Recommendations in National Diabetes Treatment Guidelines.
  Current diabetes reports 2022 Aceves B, Gunn R, Pisciotta M, Razon N, Cottrell E, Hessler D, Gold R, Gottlieb LM
• Adjusting for Patient Economic/Access Issues in a Hypertension Quality Measure.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2022 Donovan J, Cottrell EK, Hoopes M, Razon N, Gold R, Pisciotta M, Gottlieb LM

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• Family Physicians' Barriers and Facilitators in Incorporating Medication Abortion.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2022 Razon N, Wulf S, Perez C, McNeil S, Maldonado L, Fields AB, Holt K, Fox E, Silverstein I, Dehlendorf C
• "More than just giving them a piece of paper": Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Beidler LB, Razon N, Lang H, Fraze TK
• Content Analysis of Transportation Screening Questions in Social Risk Assessment Tools: Are We Capturing Transportation Insecurity?
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2022 Razon N, Gottlieb L
• Exploring the impact of mifepristone's risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) on the integration of medication abortion into US family medicine primary care clinics✰,✰✰.
  Contraception 2022 Razon N, Wulf S, Perez C, McNeil S, Maldonado L, Fields AB, Carvajal D, Logan R, Dehlendorf C
• How Hypertension Guidelines Address Social Determinants of Health: A Systematic Scoping Review.
  Medical care 2021 Razon N, Hessler D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Gottlieb L
• "Far More than Just a Prescription": Focus Groups With U.S. Family Planning Providers and Staff About Integrating PrEP for HIV Prevention Into Their Work.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2021 Razon N, Rodriguez A, Carlson K, Witt J, Logan R, Chambers B, Weber S, Seidman D
• Anthropological Perspectives to Health Policy
  Human Organization 2019 Bernstein A., Razon N.
• Seeing and unseeing like a state: house demolitions, healthcare, and the politics of invisibility in southern Israel
  Anthropological Quarterly 2017 Razon, N
• Entangled Bodies: Jews, Bedouins, and the Making of the Secular Israeli.
  Medical anthropology 2016 Razon N
• Interrogating boundaries and acknowledging fluidity: shifting identity markers in Palestine/Israel
  Journal of Borderlands Studies 2015 Ross K, Razon N
• Learned blindness: transforming Bedouins into standardized patients. Examining health and politics in southern Israel
  2015 Razon, N
• Negotiating fluid identities: Alliance-building in qualitative interviews
  Qualitative Inquiry 2012 Razon, N, Ross, K