Brooks, M.A., Mukherjee, T., Pillai, V., Khooshnood, K., Kim, R., and El-Bassel, N. (2024). Utilization of mental health counseling services among clinic-attending refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-12 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-024-01427-6

Brooks, M.A., Dasgupta, A., Khadra, M., Bawaneh, A., Kaushal, N., and El-Bassel, N. (2024) Suicidal behaviors among refugee women in Jordan: PTSD, social isolation, and post-displacement stressors. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2677. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20128-1

Jiwatram-Negron, T., Brooks, M.A., Ward, M., & Meinhart, M. (2023). Systematic review of interventions to address suicidal behaviors among people with a history of intimate partner violence: Promises and gaps across the globe. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 101871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2023.101871

Brooks, M. A., Dasgupta, A., Şahin-Taşğın, N., Meinhart, M, Tekin, U., Yükseker, D., Kaushal, N., & El-Bassel, N. (2022). Secondary traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms among service providers working with Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 24(6), 1421-1430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-022-01344-6

Brooks, M. A., Meinhart M., Samawi, L., Mukherjee, T., Jaber R., Alhomsh, H., Kaushal, N., Al-Qutob, R., Khadra, M., El-Bassel, N. & Dasgupta, A. (2022). Mental health of clinic-attending Syrian refugee women in Jordan: associations between social ecological risk factors and mental health symptoms. BMC Women’s Health. 22, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01584-y

Dr. Brooks's research aims to reduce mental health disparities and inequities among migrant populations in the U.S. and in global settings. This includes identifying social-ecological risk factors associated with negative mental health outcomes, and expanding access to culturally appropriate treatments and psychosocial interventions and development when needed. His current work explores the role of cultural brokers in engaging recently resettled refugees and asylum-seekers with mental health treatment. As a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, Dr. Brooks's research focused on mental health risk factors among marginalized youth in the U.S. At Columbia School of Social Work, Dr. Brooks was involved in several multinational research projects in Jordan and Turkey as a Graduate Research Assistant. A licensed independent clinical social worker, Dr. Brooks worked with individuals who experienced mental health emergencies and provided behavioral health services in outpatient settings in Massachusetts prior to his doctoral studies.