Date: Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST
The Refugee and Asylum Seeker Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF is pleased to invite you to its 5th annual UCSF/ZSFG Refugee Health Symposium: Refugee Migration Through the Generations.
This virtual symposium will be held on Friday, September 22, 2023 from 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST. The keynote panel, “Refugee Migration Through the Generations,” is a discussion of health experiences across waves of refugee migration from the 1970s to present. The second half of the symposium will exhibit new and innovative resources in refugee health.
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12:00 PM – 12:05 PM
Welcome |
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Eva Raphael, MD, MPH- Event Host
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF |
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12:05 PM – 12:15 PM
Opening Remarks |
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Michele Barry, MD, FACP, FASTMH
Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health
Stanford University |
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12:15 PM – 1:00 PM
Keynote Panel Part I
Refugee Migration Through the Generations |
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Panelists
Tu-Uyen N. Nguyen, PhD, MPH
Vietnamese refugee (1970s)
Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton
Ramah Awad
Palestinian Refugee Advocate
Director, Majdal: Arab Community Center of San Diego
Ahmed Hashem
Iraqi refugee
Talented Acquisition, Roblox
Moderator
Nasrin Aboudamous, MSN, RN, FNP, PHN
Registered Nurse
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital |
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1:10 PM – 2:00 PM
Keynote Panel Part II
Refugee Migration Through the Generations |
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Panelists
Farah Bille Mohamed, DrGHc, MPH, MSW
Somali refugee
Director of Research, Somali Health Board
Environmental Health Investigator, Seattle & King County Public Health
James Achuli
South Sudanese Refugee
Karen McKellin International Leader of Tomorrow, University of British Columbia
Yevheniia Ternova, MS
Ukrainian refugee (2020s)
Mental Health Support Worker, The Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth
Moderator
Fatima Karaki, MD
Director, Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI)
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF |
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2:05 PM – 2:45 PM
Panel
Innovative Resources in Refugee Health |
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Organizations
National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
Erin Mann, MPH
Co-principal investigator
Refugee Review Board of the Society for Refugee Health Providers
Ola Alani, MS
Board member, RRB
Partnership for Trauma Recovery (PTR)
Jean Pierre Ndagijimana, EdD
African Communities Wellbeing Coordinator, PTR
Moderator
Ashraf Mathkour
Board of Directors & Advisory Council, Anera
Head of Sales, Signal AI |
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2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Closing Remarks |
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Fatima Karaki, MD
Director, Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF |
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The UCSF/ZSFG Refugee Health Symposium brings together refugee health experts across disciplines in an annual opportunity to discuss current issues and ongoing research in refugee health. Each year, the Symposium focuses on major current themes in forced displacement. This year it will showcase the health impacts of forced migration across generations, with speakers from different waves of refugee migration over the past several decades, from the 1970s to present.
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