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SESSIONS
Live online sessions will be via Zoom, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. PDT (check your local time here).
Session 1 - Tuesday, June 15th
Current Status of Migrants and Health Worldwide
- Welcome remarks
- Migration and Migrants, a Global Overview; Marie McAuliffe, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Migration and Health, Key issues; Santino Severoni, World health Organization (WHO)
Remembering Dr. Steven P. Wallace
- Xochitl Castañeda, University of California Berkeley
Session 2 - Wednesday, June 16th
COVID-19 and Migrant Populations: Burden, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
- Aleksandar Arnikov, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- CDC Public Health Strategies Relevant to the Foreign-born Population; Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Session 3 - Thursday, June 17th
Climate Migration and Health
- Climate Change and Migration: New Insights from a Dynamic Model of Out-Migration and Return Migration; Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Climate change and migration across four continents; David Lopez-Carr, University of California Santa Barbara
- Kate Burrows, Yale School of the Environment
Session 4 - Tuesday, June 22nd
Migrants Occupational Health and Safety
- Marc Schenker, University of Californis Davis
- Erica Briones Vozmediano, University of Lleida, Spain
- Michael Flynn, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)
Session 5 - Wednesday, June 23rd
Access to Healthcare for Migrants
- The Mexican government's policies to provide health care to migrant populations; Ricardo Cortes Alcala, Secretariat of Health of Mexico
- Liz Oseguera, California Primary Care Association
- Gabrielle Lessard, National Immigration Law Center
Session 6 - Thursday, June 24th
Mobile Populations Research and Data
- Kolitha Wickramage, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Challenges and approaches for measuring health and risks in people on the move; Ietza Bojorquez, Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF)
- The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability; Irene Bloemraad, University of California Berkeley
Session 7 - Tuesday, June 29th
Migration and Mental Health
- Lessons Learned from Undocumented Latinx Immigrants: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Distress in the Face of COVID-19; Luz Garcini, UT Health San Antonio
- Karen Carpio, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- The Ulyssess Syndrome: Assessment and Intervention; Joseba Achotegui, University of Barcelona
Session 8 - Wednesday, June 30th
Children and Migration
- Migrant children at the US-Mexico Border; Paul Wise, Stanford University
- Tensions and dilemmas in research on early marriage among Syrian refugee adolescent girls in Lebanon: The Amenah Project; Sawsan Abdulrahim, American University of Beirut
- Michaella Vanore, United Nations University- Maastricht University
Session 9 - Thursday, July 1st
Migration, Inclusion, and Social Cohesion
- Socioeconomic inclusion as a health determinant of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia; Julian Fernandez Niño, Colombian Ministry of Health
- Migration, Inclusion and Social Cohesion in the Context of European Migration: Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives; Zana Vathi, Edge Hill University
- An end of the Hispanic mortality paradox due to cohort changes in obesity during young adulthood; Jennifer Van Hook, Penn State University