
Link to conference program
A Challenge to Dignity Conference brought together refugee health professionals working to advance refugee health all
over the globe with a wide range of forcibly displaced populations for two days
of presentations. The conference promoted discussions on a variety of refugee
and asylum seeker health factors. Speakers and participants, in person and virtually, had the opportunity to
compare notes and ask questions after each presentation.
Link to conference sessions
A) Physicians and Health Care Providers
B) Community and Collaboration
C) Health Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
D) Women, Families, and Reproductive Health
E) Trauma and Treatment.
Link to individual sessions
Understanding the Health of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Migrants Through the Lens of Student Interns at a Student-Run Free Clinic on the US-Mexico Border (Jose Burgos and Victoria Ojeda)
Pathways Towards Medical Licensure for Refugee and Asylee International Medical Graduates Living in the US (Lillian Walkover and Susan Bell)
An Ethnography of Care: Physicians and Asylum Seekers on the US-Mexico Border (Thomas Csordas, Brenda Wilson, and Alexis Burnstan)
Global Health is also Investing in Political Change of the Systems that Drive the Harms we are made to Chase (Dona Murphey)
Models of Inclusive Programming: Resilience Humanitarianism, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Justice (Catherine Panter-Brick)
New Horizons of Refugee Health and Wellbeing: Promoting Dignity Through Partnerhship and Social Inclusion (Charles Watters)
Affective Acts of Welcome: Volunteer Solidarians and US Asylum Seeker Resettlement (Kristin Yarris)
Refugee Collaboration and Self-Determination in San Diego (Christiane Assefa and Andrew Blank)
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Migrant Populations in Tijuana (Ietza Bojorquez, Jaime Sepulveda, and Steffanie Strathdee)
Infectious and Chronic Illness among Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Christine Murto)
Asylum Seekers at the Southern Border: The Effects of Federal Policies on Physical and Mental Health (Linda Hill)
Nowhere Near Enough: Deadly Labor in a Congolese Refugee Camp (Emily Lynch)
America's Wars and Iraqis' Lives: Toxic Legacies, Reproductive Vulnerabilities, and Regimes of Exclusion in the United States (Marcia Inhorn)
Refugee Reproductive Health: A Comparative Ethnography of Syrians' Experiences at Sites of First-Asylum Resettlement (Morgen Chalmiers)
Arab Refugees Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Domestic Violence: A Legal and Public Health Challenge (Maysa Hamza and Patrick Marius Koga)
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees Resettled in the US: Results of and Implementation/Effectiveness Randomized Controlled Trial (Theresa Betancourt)
The Use of Waiting as a Detterrent to Migration, and Its Effect on the Well-being of Asylum Seekers (Olga Odgers Ortiz and Olga Olivas Hernandez)
Trauma Loops: US Immigration Detention and Reverse Causality in PTSD (Hans Reihling)
Refugees on the Move: Health Along the Migratory Route Between Syria and California (Tala Al-Rousan)
"I'm Afraid I'll Die before I See You Again": Bureaucratic Violence and Ambiguous Loss among Refugees in the US (Bridget Haas)
Adapting to Mass Trauma and Displacement: Testing and Implementing the Adapt Model (Derrick Silove)
Does Humanitarian Mental Health Care Amount to Epistemic Violence or Is It a Matter of Saving Lives and Addressing Social Injustice? (Peter Ventevogel)