Stevan Weine

Prof Stevan Weine

Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Global Medicine
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Current Institution Location: United States of America

Email: smweine@uic.edu
Phone Number:  312-355-5407
Website: Go to website

Address:
Psychiatric Institute 1601 W. Taylor St. Rm. 589 Chicago, IL 60612

Migration Health Research Area/Expertise
Stevan Weine, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, where he is also the Director of the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes and the Director of Global Health Research Training at the Center for Global Health. For 25 years he has been conducting research both with refugees and migrants in the U.S. and in post-conflict countries, focused on mental health, health, and countering violent extremism. He leads an active, externally funded research program which has been supported by multiple federal, state, university, and foundation grants, from 1998 to the present, all with collaboration from community partners. Weine is author of When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999) and Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Northwestern, 2006).

Research Focus/Expertise on Relevant Migrant Categories
Internal Migration
Internally displaced persons (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Left-behind migrant families (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Migrant Workers (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Students (Children, Adolescents, Adults)

International/Cross-Border Migration
International students (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Patient mobility across borders (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Refugees (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Asylum seekers (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
Human trafficking (Children, Adolescents, Adults)
Humanitarian entrants/ Refugee resettlement programs (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)
International migrant workers (Children, Adolescents, Adults, Elderly)


General Research Focus/Expertise
Adolescent health
Disaster preparedness and response
Health of detainees/ incarceration
Health policy
Health promotion/ Health education
HIV/ AIDS
Labour migration and health
Mental health
Psychiatry
Public Health
Refugee health

Relevant Publications

Title Author Year Published Link to Publication
HIV sexual risk behaviors and multilevel determinants among male labor migrants from Tajikistan Weine, S., Bahromov, M., Loue, S., & Owens, L. View
Evaluating a multiple‐family group access intervention for refugees with PTSD Weine, S., Kulauzovic, Y., Klebic, A., Besic, S., Mujagic, A., Muzurovic, J., Spahovic, D., Sclove, S., Pavkovic, I, Feetham, S, & Rolland, J.
Thriving, managing, and struggling: A mixed methods study of adolescent African refugees’ psychosocial adjustment Weine, S., Ware, N., Tugenberg, T., Hakizimana, L., Dahnweih, G., Currie, M., Wagner, M., & Levin, E. View
Secondary migration and relocation among African refugee families in the United States Weine, S. M., Hoffman, Y., Ware, N., Tugenberg, T., Hakizimana, L., Dahnweigh, G., Currie, M., & Wagner, M. View
Trauma exposure, PTSD, and HIV sexual risk behaviors among labor migrants from Tajikistan Weine, S., Bahromov, M., Loue, S., & Owens, L. View
Unprotected Tajik male migrant workers in Moscow at risk for HIV/AIDS Weine, S., Bahromov, M., & Mirzoev, A. View
The roles of labor migrants' wives in HIV/AIDS risk and prevention in Tajikistan Golobof, A., Weine, S., Bahromov, M., & Luo, J. View
Female migrant sex workers in Moscow: gender and power factors and HIV risk Weine, S., Golobof, A., Bahromov, M., Kashuba, A., Kalandarov, T., Jonbekov, J., & Loue, S. View
Developing preventive mental health interventions for refugee families in resettlement Weine, S.
Reintegrating Returned Migrants to Kosovo Weine, S., & Arenliu, A. View
The TAFES multi-family group intervention for Kosovar refugees: A feasibility study Weine, S. M., Raina, D., Zhubi, M., Delesi, M., Huseni, D., Feetham, S., ... & Pavkovic, I. View
Family roles in refugee youth resettlement from a prevention perspective Weine, S. View
Using mixed methods to build knowledge of refugee mental health Weine, S., Durrani, A., & Polutnik, C.
HIV prevention for migrants in transit: developing and testing TRAIN Bahromov M., & Weine, S. View
Fostering resilience: Protective agents, resources, and mechanisms for adolescent refugees’ psychosocial well-being Weine, Stevan; Ware, Norma; Hakizimana, Leonce; Tugenberg, Toni; Currie, Madeleine; Dahnweih, Gonwo; Wagner, Maureen; Polutnik, Chloe; & Wulu, Jacqueline View
Building resilience to violent extremism in Muslim diaspora communities in the United States Weine, S. View
Family consequences of refugee trauma Weine, S., Muzurovic, N., Kulauzovic, Y., Besic, S., Lezic, A., Mujagic, A., ... & Knafl, K.
Socio-structural barriers, Protective factors, and HIV risk among Central-Asian female migrants in Moscow Zabrocki, C., Weine, S., Chen, S., Brajkovic, I., Bahromov, M., Loue, S., Jonbekov, J., & Shoakova, F. View
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali‐Americans in Minneapolis‐St. Paul Weine, S, & Ahmed, O. View
PTSD symptoms in Bosnian refugees 1 year after resettlement in the United States Weine, S. M., Vojvoda, D., Becker, D. F., McGlashan, T. H., Hodzic, E., Laub, D., ... & Lazrove, S. View
Bosnian and Kosovar Refugees in the United States: Family Interventions in a Services Framework Weine, S., Feetham, S., Kulauzovic, Y., Besic, S., Lezic, A., Mujagic, A., ... & Pavkovic, I. View
A Mixed Methods Study of Refugee Families Engaging in Multiple‐Family Groups Weine, S., Knafl, K., Feetham, S., Kulauzovic, Y., Klebic, A., Sclove, S., ... & Spahovic, D. View
A family beliefs framework for socially and culturally specific preventive interventions with refugee youths and families Weine, S., Feetham, S., Kulauzovic, Y., Knafl, K., Besic, S., Klebic, A., ... & Pavkovic, I. View

Relevant Projects

Title Year Published Region/Country Role in the Project Main Outcome Link to Study Reports and publications
Addressing Mental Illness and Physical Comorbidities in Migrants and their Families South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Tajikistan
UNSC Resolution 1244-Administered Kosovo 		Principal Investigator Build research capacity in low- and middle-income countries concerning this major global health problem. It focuses on migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from two of the world’s highest migrant-sending countries, Kosovo and Tajikistan, both Muslim majority LMICs. Multilevel determinants of common mental disorders in migrant and non-migrant w…
A Case-Control and Mixed Methods Study of HIV Risk and Protection among Labor Migrants South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Russian Federation 		Principal Investigator This study aims to build scientific knowledge on the multilevel risks associated with labor migration that can lead to HIV infection as well as the spectrum of involvement in HIV prevention and care among labor migrants.
Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking Central and North America and the Caribbean
Turks and Caicos 		Principal Investigator Build scientific knowledge on the emergence and trajectories of the co-occurrence of radicalization and trafficking in the Somali American community to better understand the transnational and convergence issues involved and how this knowledge can inform evidence-based prevention and intervention programs.
Labor Migration and Multilevel HIV Prevention Principal Investigator Goals for this proposal include: 1) training and mentoring students, trainees, and junior faculty in patient-oriented research generally, and multilevel HIV prevention and refugee and migrant research specifically; 2) receiving consultation from senior researchers regarding mixed methods in preventive intervention development, research collaborations with families and communities, and ethics in HIV/AIDS and migration research; and 3) expanding research activities so as to build the intervention content and methodology needed to develop and evaluate multilevel HIV preventive interventions for labor migrants. HIV Prevention for Migrants in Transit: Developing and Testing TRAIN
Migrancy, Masculinity and Preventing HIV in Tajik Male Migrant Workers South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Tajikistan 		Principal Investigator Data focus on the social, cultural, and psychological factors shaping masculinity; how masculine norms impact male migrants' HIV risk and preventive behaviors; and how HIV prevention skills can be enhanced among this population in the context of their lives and the organizations that work with them. HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors and Multilevel Determinants Among Male Labor Migrants…
A Services Approach to Preventive Mental Health for Adolescent Refugees Central and North America and the Caribbean
United States of America 		Principal Investigator This five-year study of at-risk refugee adolescents uses ethnography to develop contextual knowledge on family and ecological resources that protect against mental health problems and uses that knowledge to develop a prevention intervention which is adaptable for different cultures and different service settings. Thriving, Managing, and Struggling: A Mixed Methods Study of Adolescent African…
A Prevention and Access Intervention for Bosnian Survivor Families Central and North America and the Caribbean
United States of America 		Principal Investigator The overall purpose of the proposed research is to test a Prevention and Access Intervention for Families (PAIF) with Bosnians in Chicago who are torture survivors and who are not utilizing formal mental health services. The intervention aims to: 1) help families to be better able to draw upon the families' strengths and resources to cope together under the stresses of survival and displacement; and 2) improve the families' ability to obtain appropriate care for possible mental health consequences of torture from sources outside the family.