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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

4081.1
Global policies and approaches to refugees and immigrants health

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Poster
Session Objectives: Define global policies that impact refugee and immigrant health Identify policies promoting health among immigrants and refugees communities

Board 1
Food Security among Recently Arrived Refugees: Is It Associated with Pre-Resettlement Conditions and Current Social-Support Network   
Suzanne Doad, BA, Lanae Ball, PhD and Jigna M. Dharod, PhD
Board 2
Context, Caring and Connection: Relational Ethics and Tools for Empowering Newly Arrived Refugees   
Heidi West, MA Ethics, Peace, & Global Affairs, Graduate Certificate: Global Health
Board 3
Coalition Building to Address Hepatitis B in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities   
Kate Moraras, MPH, Joan Block, RN, BSN, Jeffrey Caballero, MPH, Pavitri Dwivedi, MPH, Allan Gamboa, Melinda Martin, MPH, Michelle Ninde, MA, Isha Weerasinghe, MSc and Chari Cohen, DrPH, MPH
Board 4
Perceptions of alcohol consumption among transmigrant West Africans   
Daudet Ilunga Tshiswaka, M.S., Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts, Ph.D and Anuoluwapo Osideko
Board 5
Bridge to Care perspectives on engaging with the refugee community; examples from community-needs based refugee education sessions, mentoring program and health fairs   
Alexandria Tran, BA, Ian Parsley, BS, Elizabeth Elliott, Medical Student, Katelyn Jelden, MPH, Tyler Irvine, College of Public Health Research Assistant, Subash Baniya, Pharmacy Student, Ryan Hafner, Medical Student, Ruth Margalit, MD and Laura Vinson, MPH
Board 6
Mental health and quality of life of female foreign domestic workers in Singapore: Isolation, stressors, coping mechanisms and policy implications   
Sabrina Anjara, MSc, Laura Nellums, MSc, PhD and Tine Van Bortel, PhD

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, Socialist Caucus, Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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