Andrew Rasmussen

Andrew Rasmussen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and head of the Culture, Migration, and Community research group. Dr. Rasmussen’s research focuses primarily on the psychosocial needs and assessment of displaced populations (e.g., refugees, asylum seekers). Well versed in psychological trauma, Dr. Rasmussen’s work also focuses on other forms of stress experienced by displaced populations, immigrants’ interaction with legal immigration proceedings, and how cultural features interact with service delivery to low-income immigrant communities in general. Following his doctorate Dr. Rasmussen worked at Bellevue Hospital’s Program for the Survivors of Torture before coming to Fordham in 2012. In addition to scholarly research, Dr. Rasmussen has been involved in program evaluation of psychosocial programs serving trauma-affected populations around the world.

• 1994 BA, Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
• 2002 MA, Clinical/Community Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana-Champaign, IL
• 2004 PhD, Clinical/Community Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Urbana-Champaign, IL

• Social-ecological effects of forced migration
• Measurement of culturally-defined idioms of distress
• Trauma and psychosocial stressors in humanitarian disasters
• Immigration Court
• Program evaluation

• Introductory Psychology (Eloquentia Perfecta)
• Social Psychology
• Statistics
• Qualitative Methods
• Trauma and Family Violence
• Global Mental Health

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Association for Psychological Science
• Member, Society for Community Research and Action (APA Div. 27)
• Member, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (APA Div. 45)
• Lecturer, Fordham University Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs

Cooperations

• Dr. Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
• Dr. Tracy Chu, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
• Dr. Francesca Gany, Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Institute, New York, NY

Zolopa*, C., Leon*, M., & Rasmussen, A. (2023). A systematic review of response styles among Latinx populations. Assessment, DOI: 10.1177/10731911231194969.

Romero, S. A., Rasmussen, A., & Raue, P. J. (2022). Treatment decision-making preferences of older depressed minority primary care patients. Community Mental Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-022-01055-0.

Romero, S. A., Feng, Y., Martinez-Mallaganes, S., & Rasmussen, A. (2022). Understanding the Disparate PTSD prevalence for U.S. and Mexico via social comparison effect types that inform perception of trauma difficulty. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. DOI: 10.1037/tra0001349.

Rasmussen, A., Leon*, M., & Elklit, A. (2023). Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire: Configural, metric, but not scalar invariance across youth samples from nine countries. Assessment, 30(5):1369-1378. DOI: 10.1177/10731911221101912.

Rasmussen, A., Burke, N. L., Cissé*, A., Ahmed, S., Romero, S., & Gany, F. (2023). Body mass index mediates the direct association of subjective social status and hypertension in a Fulani West African immigrant sample. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. DOI: 10.1037/ort0000694. Epub ahead of print.

Miller, K. E., Rasmussen, A., Jordans, M. J. (2023). Strengthening the evidence base: Strategies for improving the quality and usefulness of mental health trials in humanitarian settings. The Lancet Psychiatry. Online First DOI: 10.1016/ S2215-0366(23)00273-0

Brunet, A., Rivest-Beauregard, M., Lonergan, M., Cipoletta, S., Rasmussen, A., Meng, X., Jaafari, N., Romero, S., Superka, J., Brown, A. D., & Sapkota, R. P. (2022). PTSD is not the emblematic disorder of the COVID-19 pandemic; Adjustment Disorder is. BMC Psychiatry, 22, 300. DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03903-5.

Behrendt, M., Vervliet, M., Rota, M., Adeyinka, S., Uzureau, O., Rasmussen, A., Glaesmer, H., Lietaert, I., & Derluyn, I. (2023). A conceptual study on the relationship between daily stressors, stressful life events, and mental health in refugees using network analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1134667

Jayawickreme, N., Knight, S., Rasmussen, A., & Ryder, A. G. (2021). Cultural Issues in Psychological Assessment. In M. Bagby & M. Sellbom (Eds.), Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, 2nd Edition.  Oxford, UK: Pergamon.

Nickerson, A., Byrow, Y., Rasmussen, A., O’Donnell, M. O., Bryant, R. A., Murphy, S., Mau, V., McMahon, T., Benson, G. & Liddell, B. J. (2021). Profiles of exposure to potentially traumatic events in refugees living in Australia. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 30, e18, 1-12. DOI: 10.1017/S2045796021000068.

Anakwenze*, O., & Rasmussen, A. (2021). The impact of parental trauma, parenting difficulty, and planned family separation on the behavioral health of West African immigrant children in New York City. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(4), 457–466. DOI: 10.1037/tra0001011. 

Cissé*, A., & Rasmussen, A. (2021). Qualitative Methods. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00216-8

Rasmussen, A., Romero*, S., Leon*, M., Verkuilen, J., Morales*, P., Martinez-Mallaganes*, S., & García-Sosa, I. (2020). Measuring trauma exposure: Counts of potentially traumatic events versus variety in a binational sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(6), 973-983. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22563. 

Rasmussen, A. & Jayawickreme, N. (2020). Introduction to the special collection: Developing valid psychological measures for populations impacted by humanitarian disasters. Conflict & Health, 14 (10). DOI: 10.1186/s13031-020-00260-6.

Cissé*, A., De Haene, L. L., Keatley, E., & Rasmussen, A. (2020). Pre- and post-migration trauma and adversity: Sources of resilience among West African refugee families. In L. De Haene & C. Rousseau (Eds.), Working with refugee families: Coping with trauma and displacement in family relationships. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Ahmed*, S., & Rasmussen, A. (2020). Changes in social status and post-migration mental health among West African immigrants. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90(2), 171-180. DOI: 10.1037/ort0000419

* indicates authors who were Fordham students at the time of submission.

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