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II&M successfully attended the ISNA convention and had engaging discussions from the 1st to the 4th of September.
Announcing Final Cohort: 'Introduction to the Field of Islamic Bioethics' Course Starts in September! Enjoy 50% off using the 'BIOETHICS50' Code.
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Nasir Malim

Nasir Malim

PGY 3 Montefiore Medical Center

New York, New York

Nasir Malim completed his Bachelors degree in African American Studies at the University of California- Irvine. He then pursued an MPH at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles and medical school at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-Middletown. Currently he is finishing his residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx in Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine and will be starting as an Academic Hospitalist in New York City. His Islamic studies have involved 3 years of intensive coursework through the Islamic Scholars Preparatory Academy at the Institute of Knowledge in Diamond Bar, California.

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Nasir Malim has recounted some of his experiences via Instagram, about the internship. He wrote, “another important aspect of this summer was being able to put into direct application things I had just learned. This is such an important step for reinforcing and concretizing knowledge. I wrote an article for a Muslim community newsletter about some of the ethical and legal implications of in vitro fertilization. That was oriented to a general audience that just covered some of the most essential areas of the topic. These practical experiences have been great outlets to gain more skill with Islamic bioethics work.” Since completing the internship he has published a article titled Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity in the Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association which was the culmination of his independent project during his time as an intern. Currently he is analyzing the concept of harm reduction through an intersectional medical, public health, and fiqhi approach.

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Mufti Nazim Khutbah

Padela Khutbah

Shkifah Khutbah

Intervention Study

Qualitative Study and Interviews

Fifty Muslim multiethnicity women (40 years old and above) were interviewed (6 focused group) and 19 in individual interviews. We found religious beliefs did informed mammography intention, which includes (1) the perceived religious duty to care for one’s health, (2) religious practices as methods of disease prevention, (3) fatalistic notions about health, and (4) comfort with gender concordant health care.

Quantitative Study and survey

240, 40 years of age or older, were surveyed (72 respondents were Arab, 71 South Asian, 59 African American, and 38 from another ethnicity). We found that positive religious coping and perceived religious discrimination in health settings significantly (negatively) affected mammogram adherence among Muslim women in Chicago.

American Cancer Society mammogram recommendations

Mammogram recommendation for women at average risk or breast cancer

  • Women between 40 and 44 have a choice to have a mammography every year.
  • Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year.
  • Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms.

3R model

Reframing “switch train tracks”
  • Keep the barriers belief intact but change the way one thinks about it so it is consonant with the desired health behavior
  • Normalizes the barrier belief
Reprioritize: “show them a better train”
  • Introduce a new belief and create higher valence for it than the barrier belief
  • Normalization of the barrier belief is optional
Reform: “breakdown the train carriage”
  • Negate the barrier belief by demonstrating its faults by appealing to authority structures

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