(Selected Publications)
Books
1) Afkhami, A. A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).
Journal Articles
2) Afkhami, A. “Mortality Matters: Sources on Population Health and Mortality during the First World War in Iran,” Journal of Iranian Studies, 53 (2020): 201-221.
3) Afkhami, A. Gorentz, K. "Addressing the Invisible Affliction: An Assessment of Behavioral Health Services for Newly Resettled Refugees in the United States," Int. Migration & Integration (2018): 1-13.
4) Afkhami, A. "Can Academic Medicine Lead the Way in the Refugee Crisis?" Acad Med 2016; 91:1595–1597.
5) Afkhami, A. "Psychiatry and Efforts to Build Community in Iraq," Am J Psych 2014; 171:913-915.
6) Afkhami, A. "Compromised constitutions: the Iranian experience with the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic," Bull Hist Med 2003; 77:367-92.
Book Chapters/Other
1) Afkhami, A. "Coping With Addictive Opioid Markets," in Allen R. Dyer et al. Eds. Global Mental Health Ethics (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021).
2) Afkhami, A. “Iran's strategy for fighting covid-19 could backfire,” The Washington Post, May 27, 2020.
3) Afkhami, A. “Why Iran Is Such a Coronavirus Threat,” Politico Magazine, March 3, 2020.
4) Afkhami, A. “Pandemics Ravaged Iran Long Before the Coronavirus,” Foreign Affairs, March 2, 2020.
5) Afkhami, A. "How Iran Won the War on Drugs: Lessons for Fighting the Afghan Narcotics Trade," Foreign Affairs, April 2013.
6) Afkhami, A. "A Doctor in Iraq, Watching a Faith Healer at Work," New York Times, December 27, 2010.
7) Afkhami, A. "From Punishment to Harm Reduction: Resecularization of Addiction in Contemporary Iran," in Ali Gheissari Ed. Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).