Mission Hall, Room 1400
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee Health and Humanitarian Protection
UCSF’s Health and Human Rights Initiative will present at this month’s Grand Rounds. They will describe emerging trends and recent changes in humanitarian protection and asylum policy impacting displaced populations globally, recognize the physical, psychological, and social health effects of forced displacement, trauma, and migration on refugees and asylum seekers, and discuss how interdisciplinary collaboration among legal, healthcare, and arts professionals can advance healing, advocacy, and wellbeing for displaced communities.
Lunch will be served. We will display research posters on themes of migration and health to visit before and after Grand Rounds.
Speakers
Laura Maria Calderón Cuevas, MA, UCSF Global Brain Institute & Musicians for Human Rights
Laura Maria Calderón Cuevas works at the intersection of human rights, music, and brain health. She is the Community Education Specialist and Music Leader Facilitator at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center and serves on the Board of Directors of Musicians for Human Rights. Her work focuses on using the arts to support trauma recovery, foster resilience, and reduce dementia risk among older adults, migrants and other vulnerable communities in San Francisco and beyond.
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH, Executive Director of UCSF HHRI
Triveni DeFries is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative. She practices Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She is an Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco in General Internal Medicine, Core Faculty in the Institute of Global Health Sciences, and Affiliated faculty of the Latinx Center of Excellence. She specializes in medicolegal collaboration for immigrant health, and the medical documentation of human rights abuses on behalf of asylum seekers and survivors of persecution. She leads the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative and serves as a Medical Expert for Physicians for Human Rights.
Karen Musalo, JD, Founder of the UC Law Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Karen Musalo is on the faculty at the UC Law, San Francisco, and is founding director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies. She is lead co-author of Refugee Law and Policy: An International and Comparative approach (6th edition). Karen has written extensively on refugee issues, and contributed to the jurisprudence of asylum law not only through her scholarship, but through her litigation of landmark cases. Karen is recognized for her innovative work, being the first attorney to partner with mental health professionals in the representation of asylum seekers, and editing the earliest handbook on cross-cultural issues and credibility in the asylum context.
Moderated by Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH, Pediatric Co-Director of UCSF HHRI
Raul Gutierrez is an associate clinical professor at UCSF with over 10 years of experience working with immigrant children. He is the co-founder and co-director of the BRIDGES clinic, a multidisciplinary team committed to a holistic and community-supported approach to wellness among recently immigrated children and their families located within the Children’s Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. He serves as the co-director of pediatrics with the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative as well as the Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing with Benioff Children’s Hospitals. He also serves as the co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. In 2021, he became the director of the Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity (PLUS) residency program within the Department of Pediatrics.
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