Strategies for building non-governmental infrastructure to meet refugee health needs

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Non-governmental and community-based organizations’ role in refugee and immigrant health

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Oral

10:30am

Improving the quality of life of Somali refugees through the East African Health Coalition
Cristina Redko, PhD, Nikki Rogers, PhD, Liban Bule, MSW and Hawa Siad

10:45am

Cambodian American medical home program: Engaging the community in their own care
Thomas Buckley, MPH, RPh, Mary Scully, APRN, Theanvy Kuoch, MA, LPC, Sengly Kong, PhD and S. Megan Berthold, PhD, LCSW

11:00am

11:15am

Healthy eating and wellbeing among somali, cambodian, Mexican, and sudanese immigrants and refugees in the u.s.: A focus group study
Kristina Tiedje, PhD, Mark Wieland, MD, MPH, Sonia Meiers, PhD, RN, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Christine Formea, PharmD, Jennifer Ridgeway, MPP, Gladys Asiedu, PhD, Ginny Boyum, PhD, Jennifer Weis, RN, MS, Julie Nigon, Christi Patten, PhD and Irene Sia

11:30am

Strategies for building non-governmental infrastructure to meet refugee health needs
Lisa Sockabasin, RN, Christine Lyman, MSW, CHES, Kathleen E. Perkins, MPA and Fatuma Hussein

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: International Health