Global Health Program Events 

A Challenge to Dignity Conference, hosted in October 2021, 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. 

Resources:

• Conference program
• Full Conference sessions
• Individual presentations

Sessions

• Session A - Physicians and Health Care Providers
• Session B -  Community and Collaboration
• Session C - Health Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
• Session D - Women, Families, and Reproductive Health
• Session E - Trauma and Treatment

Individual Presentations

• 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)