Suzanne Barakat, MD
Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine
Notable media interviews / features: Anderson Cooper, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Reveal, ABC Nightline, AJ+, Al-Jazeera, The SF Chronicle, UCSF Profile, UCSF Magazine, “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” Documentary. (2015 - 2024)
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Notable Presentations:
NORTH AMERICA
2016 – TED Talk | "Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate." 2015 – The Parliament of the World's Religions | Plenary Keynote | Salt Lake City, UT 2016 – The White House | Roundtable discussion with President Barack Obama | Baltimore, MD 2017 – The Carter Center | Countering Islamophobia Symposium | Participant and Panelist | Atlanta, GA 2018 – Women in the World Summit | Speaker | New York City 2018 – Society of Teachers for Family Medicine (STFM) | National Conference | Plenary Keynote "Allyship in Times of Adversity" | Washington, DC 2018 – Exponent Philanthropy | National Conference | Plenary Keynote "From Biases to Strength" | Philadelphia, PA 2020 – Doctors for America Webinar: "Health Professionals Facing Racism." | Virtual 2021 – Wingate University | Keynote & Civil Discourse Townhall | North Carolina (2017, 2021) 2021 – UNC School of Dentistry | DEAH DAY (Dedicating Efforts And Honoring Deah And Yusor) Community Service Keynote (2015, 2017, 2021) 2022 – North American Refugee Health Conference | Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers Training | Lecture: "Best Practices for Writing Effective Medical-Legal Affidavits, Testifying in Court, and Collaborating with Attorneys" | Cleveland, OH 2023 – Asylum Medicine Colloquium | “Funding Landscape in Asylum Medicine” | Yale University, New Haven, CT 2023 – The White House | Roundtable discussion with Second Gentleman Douglass Emhoff on Hate & Islamophobia | Washington, DC 2023 – North American Refugee Health Conference | Keynote: Journey to Human Rights Work with Refugees and Asylum Seekers | Calgary, Canada 2023 – The White House | Closed meeting with President Joseph Biden regarding Gaza | Washington, DC 2023 – DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival | World Premiere of “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” feature and Q&A | NYC, NY 2024 – Google | DEI Global Inclusion Program | Fireside Chat: Countering Islamophobia | Mountain View, CA
REGIONAL
2015 – UCSF Grand Rounds | "Challenging Islamophobia" | San Francisco, CA 2016 – UCSF Campus-wide Teach-In | "Injustice and Health" | Panelist | San Francisco, CA 2017 – UCSF Grand Rounds | "Challenging Islamophobia" | San Francisco, CA 2017 – Mayor Edwin Lee “Equity and Immigrant Services Launch” | Speaker | San Francisco, CA 2017 – The City of San Francisco | Roundtable discussion with Mayor Edwin Lee | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2017 – Mayor Edwin Lee's “Unite Against Hate” Rally | Speaker | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2017 – Van Jones #LoveArmy Revival Event | Keynote | San Francisco, CA 2017 – California Academy of Family Physicians | Annual Summit | Keynote | Los Angeles, CA 2019 – Kaiser Richmond | Grand Rounds | "Allyship and Accountability in the Workplace" | Richmond, CA 2019 – Kaiser Oakland | Grand Rounds | "Allyship and Accountability in the Workplace" | Oakland, CA 2019 – Women's March San Francisco Rally | Speaker | San Francisco, CA 2021 – UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative | "Passage, from Kabul to the Bay" webinar | Moderator | San Francisco, CA 2022 – Southern California Permanente Medical Group | Wellness Conference | Plenary Keynote | San Diego, CA 2022 – Immigrant Advocates, Faith Leaders, Doctors Rally to End Title 42 Expulsions | Speaker | City Hall, San Francisco, CA 2022 – UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia Works In Progress Lecture | Refugee and Asylee Health | San Francisco, CA 2023 – UCSF Town Hall | Devastation, Impact and Institutional Responsibility re the Turkey / Syria Earthquakes | San Francisco, CA
FORMAL TEACHING
2016 – UC Berkeley | Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness Course AAS 132 | Lecture: “Understanding & Countering Islamophobia” 2017 – UCSF | UCSF GME Global Health Pathway GH 103 | Clinical Scholars Lecture: "Implicit Bias and Decolonizing Global Health" (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 2018 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | R3 Practice Management Conference | Per Diem, Nonprofit, & Advocacy work in Medicine (2018, 2019) 2019 – UC Berkeley School of Law | Our Three Winners Social Inclusion Policy Fellowship | Lecture & Workshop: “The Science and Impact of Bias” 2020 – UCSF | UCSF School of Medicine MS1 Elective | Human Rights Clinic Asylum Elective | Lecturer (2020, 2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Creation and development of the Clinical Human Rights Fellowship Track within the HEAL (Health Equity and Leadership) Fellowship (2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | Family Medicine Inpatient Services Didactics and Precepting (2021, 2022) 2021 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine and Obstetrics | Labor and Delivery Didactics and Precepting (2021, 2022) 2021 – UC Riverside School of Medicine | How to Heal Medical Student Conference | Lecture | Riverside, CA 2022 – UCSF | Family and Community Medicine | R1 Didactics Conference Lecture: Refugee and Asylee Health 2022 – UCSF | Institute for Global Health Sciences Masters Course 202B: Health, the Environment, and Non-Communicable Disease course | Refugee Health Seminar Lecture: "Who is a refugee and what does their journey look?" (2022, 2023) 2023 – Duke University | Sanford School of Public Policy | Lecture: “Hate Crimes & Islamophobia” | Durham, NC 2024 – UC Berkeley | De-Constructing Islamophobia Course AAS 132 | Screening of “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” followed by Q&A on hate and Islamophobia
Awards
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- Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, Congresswoman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2022
- Vera Haile Champion of Justice Immigrant Leadership Award, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission, 2022
- Certificate of Honor, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, 2022
- Uniter Award, President Joseph Biden, The White House, 2022
- Exceptional Volunteerism and University Service for Advancing Social Justice and Anti-Racism Work, UCSF School of Medicine Dean King Talmadge, 2021
- UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service: Thomas N. Burbridge Public Service Award, UCSF, 2016
- GrandSLAM Champion, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, The Moth, 2015
- Resident Teaching Award in OB/GYN, UCSF, 2014
- UNC School of Medicine International Fellowship, UNC, 2013
- UNC Eugene S. Mayer Community Honor Society for Community Service, UNC, 2011
- Carolina Undergraduate Health Fellowship, UNC, 2008
- UNC Clinical Laboratory Science Louise M. Ward Scholarship, UNC, 2008
Education & Training
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- Residency Family & Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2017
- MD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2014
- BS Clinical Laboratory Sciences University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2009
Interests
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- Global Health
- Mental Health
- Human Rights
- Implicit Bias
- Activism
- Advocacy
- Islamophobia
- Torture
- Trauma
- Social Justice
- Refugees
- Public Policy
- Asylum-seekers
- Women's Health
Websites
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- UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative (humanrights.ucsf.edu)
Videos
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- TED Talk (youtube.com)
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
Diabetes, GestationalCross-Cultural ComparisonDepressionStudent Run ClinicSuicideSuicidal IdeationDisastersSelf-Injurious BehaviorArab WorldDepression, PostpartumSuicide, AttemptedIntentionRelief WorkOne HealthRefugees
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Suicide attempts in the absence of depression: Differences between broad cultural groups.
Journal of affective disorders 2024 Liu Q, Teng CC, Sun I, Muñoz RF, Garza M, Liu NH, Barakat S, Leykin Y -
Self-harm behaviors and their intentions: a cross-cultural analysis.
Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England) 2023 Freedland AS, Sundaram K, Liu NH, Barakat S, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y -
Suicidality in the Arab World: Results from an Online Screener.
Community mental health journal 2023 Daouk S, Dailami M, Barakat S, Awaad R, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y -
Academic Health Centers and Humanitarian Crises: One Health System's Response to Unaccompanied Children at the Border.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2023 Devaskar SU, Cunningham CK, Steinhorn RH, Haq C, Spisso J, Dunne W, Gutierrez JR, Kivlahan C, Bholat M, Barakat S, de Leon Siantz ML, Romero S, Lefteris CT, Gaffney S, Deville J, Lerner C, Liu J, … -
Discrepancies in suicide screenings: Results from an international study.
Journal of affective disorders 2022 Uhl E, Raybin HB, Liu NH, Garza M, Barakat S, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y
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Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical evaluations.
Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture 2022 Gallagher A, Steiner G, Michel M, Nava Gonzales C, Mendez-Contreras S, Lu A, Armendariz M, DeFries T, Barakat S, Kivlahan C -
Factor analysis of depression symptoms across five broad cultural groups.
Journal of affective disorders 2020 Goodmann DR, Daouk S, Sullivan M, Cabrera J, Liu NH, Barakat S, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y -
Common and Country-Specific Characteristics Associated With Suicidality in the Arab Region.
The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2020 Daouk S, Awaad R, Ahmed B, Barakat S, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y -
Children and adolescents attempting to participate in a worldwide online depression screener.
Psychiatry research 2020 Stephens TN, Tran MM, Bunge EL, Liu NH, Barakat S, Garza M, Leykin Y -
Sexual orientation and treatment-seeking for depression in a multilingual worldwide sample.
Journal of affective disorders 2016 Rutter TM, Flentje A, Dilley JW, Barakat S, Liu NH, Gross MS, Muñoz RF, Leykin Y -
What do we know about gestational diabetes mellitus and risk for postpartum depression among ethnically diverse low-income women in the USA?
Archives of women's mental health 2014 Barakat S, Martinez D, Thomas M, Handley M -
Arabic Language Online Mood & Depression Screener. Qualtrics Survey
Arabic Language Online Mood & Depression Screener. Qualtrics Survey 2013 Barakat S, Leykin Y, Mun~oz RF -
Blueprints Obstetrics and Gynecology,(6th ed)
Chapter 9: Diabetes During Pregnancy 2013 Callahan TL, Caughey AB