July 10-13, 2019
Oakland and Berkeley, California, USA
You can download the final program here
Wednesday, July 10
Location: The California Endowment (TCE), 2000 Franklin St. Oakland, CA
08:15 – 08:45 Registration
08:45 – 09:00 Welcoming Remarks
Remedios Gomez Arnau, Consul General of Mexico in San Francisco
09:00 – 09:45 Global Migration: Past, Present, and Future
Marc Schenker, University of California Davis
09:45 – 10:30 Changes in Immigration Policies in the U.S.
Steven Wallace, University of California Los Angeles
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:30 Best Practices in Responding to Refugee and Migrant Health Challenges in Europe
Santino Severoni, World Health Organization
11:30 – 12:15 Human Rights and Medical-Legal Partnerships: a Framework for Research and Advocacy
Joseph Shin, Weill Cornell Medicine
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Presentation of the "Mario Gutierrez Award on Migrant Health" to:
Gudelia Rangel, US-Mexico Border Health Commision Mexican Section & Joseba Achotegui Loizate, University of Barcelona
1:30-2:45 Breakout Sessions
1. Data Sources and Research Methods on Migration and Health
Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2. US-Mexico Collaborations to Improve Migrants' Health (presentation in Spanish)
Gudelia Rangel, US-Mexico Border Health Commision Mexican Section and Liliana Osorio, University of California Berkeley
3. Occupational Health and Safety
Marc Schenker, University of California Davis
2:45–3:00 Break
3:00-4:15 Breakout Sessions
4. Mapping Spatial Inequality in Immigrant Services
Irene Bloemraad, University of California Berkeley
5. Policy Dialogues: Evidence and Engagement for Advancing Health Equity
Lisa Cacari-Stone, University of New Mexico
6. Alcohol & Substances Related Sexual Risk in Latino Migrant Day Laborers
Kurt Organista, University of California Berkeley
4:30 – 6:30 Welcoming Reception at Agave Uptown Restaurant, 2135 Franklin St. Oakland
Thursday, July 11
Location: The California Endowment (TCE), 2000 Franklin St., Oakland, CA
08:15 – 08:30 Coffee
08:30 – 09:15 Regional Coordination and Health Response to Mass Migration in Latin America
Karen Carpio, International Organization for Migration
09:15 – 10:00 Health Disparities among Asian Immigrants in the U.S.
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 How to Integrate Migration Health into Global Health Initiatives
Stefano Bertozzi, UC Berkeley
11:00 – 12:15 Panel on Data Collection on Immigrant’s Health: Benefits vs Harm
- Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
-Deliana Garcia, Migrant Clinicians Network
-Joseph Shin, Weill Cornell Medicine
Moderator: Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley
12:15- 1:30 Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:30 – 2:45 Breakout Sessions
7. Human Trafficking and Health: International Research and Evaluation
Cathy Zimmerman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
8. Conducting Outreach in an Anti-immigrant Climate
Liam Spurgeon & Diana Lieu, Health Outreach Partners
9. Visit to Asian Health Center- Oakland (from 2:00 to 4:00 ) The clinic is located at 101 8th St., Oakland.
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:15 Breakout Sessions
10. Resilience, Faith, & Social Supports in Forced Migrants from Central America and Mexico
Mark Lusk, Samuel Terrazas, Janette Caro and Perla Chaparro, University of Texas at El Paso
11. Mental Health and PTSD in War Refugees
Patrick Marius Koga, University of California Davis
5:45 – 10:00 Optional social activity (not included in registration fee): Ferry trip from Oakland Jack London Square to San Francisco Ferry Building. Dinner in San Francisco.
Friday, July 12
Location: University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health. (2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720. Colloquium Room)
08:15 – 08:30 Coffee
08:30 – 09:15 Gendered Dimensions of Population Mobility Across HIV Epidemics in Rural Eastern Africa
Carol Camlin, University of California San Francisco
09:15 – 10:00 Gender, Vulnerability, and Resilience among children 'Left Behind' by Migrant Kin
Michaella Vanore, United Nations University - Maastricht University
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 Refugee Health
Clelia Pezzi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch
11:00 – 11:45 Returning to the Place of Origin
Andrea Bautista, Colegio de Mexico
11:45 – 12:30 The Ulysses Syndrome: The Immigrant Syndrome with Chronic and Multiple Stress
Joseba Achotegui, University of Barcelona
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch and Poster Presentations
2:00 – 4:00 Breakout Sessions
12. Understanding the Tests to Assess the Migratory Mourning and the Ulysses Syndrome
Joseba Achotegui and Dori Espeso, University of Barcelona
13. Climate Change, Migration, and Health
Federico Castillo, University of California Berkeley
14. Humanizing Deportation (videos and discussion)
Robert Irwin, University of California Davis
4:00 – 4:15 Closing remarks
Saturday, July 13
09:00 – 1:00 pm Field Trip to San Francisco
As part of the learning experience, Summer Institute participants will spend Saturday morning visiting San Francisco neighborhoods where migrants from around the world now call home. The tour will include a presentation at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and a visit to Strut, a health and wellness center in the Castro neighborhood, serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transg
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