Shakiba Ghasemi Assl
Postdoctoral Scholar
StrategicInfo&PubHealthPrac
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Shakiba Ghasemi Assl is a postdoctoral researcher at UCSF’s Center for Health and Nature. She studies how people use technology to connect with nature and how these experiences can support healing and mental well-being. With a background in medicine and global health, she brings a human-centered perspective to research on nature and health.

Education & Training

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• Msc Global Health Sciences University of California, San Francisco 09-2024
• MD Medicine Iran University of Medical Sciences 05-2021

Publications (3)

Top publication keywords:
AdultRenal Insufficiency, ChronicLife ExpectancyHumansCause of DeathRisk FactorsGlobal Burden of DiseaseGlobal HealthBlood GlucoseHyperglycemiaQuality-Adjusted Life YearsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Socioeconomic Factors

• From Awareness to Action: Are Dental Professionals Ready to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence? An Innovative Training Approach.
  Journal of dental education 2025 Banava S, Clyburn B, Abdelrahim M, Assl SG, Singhal S
• Myocardial and Vascular Involvement in Patients with Takayasu Arteritis: A Cardiovascular MRI Study.
  Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023 Almasi S, Asadian S, Hosseini L, Rezaeian N, Ghasemi Asl S, Ranjbar A, Sadat-Ebrahimi SR, Mahmoodieh B, Salmanipour A
• Burden of diabetes and hyperglycaemia in adults in the Americas, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
  The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2022 GBD 2019 Diabetes in the Americas Collaborators