12th Summer Institute on Migration & Global Health · PDF fileProgram Los Angeles, California,...

Program

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.June 26 - 28, 2017

12th Summer Institute on Migration & Global Health

AM

8:00 Registration/Coffee

8:45 Welcome remarks Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Xóchitl Castañeda, Director, Health Initiative of the Americas, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Plenary Sessions8:55 Migration and Global Health: Historical & Current Trends Marc Schenker, Distinguished Professor, Medicine and Public Health, UC Davis

9:40 The Role of International Organizations in Addressing the Health of Migrants and Refugees Santino Severoni, Coordinator Public Health and Migration, World Health Organization - Europe

10:25 Break

10:40 How Healthy/Unhealthy are Migrants and Why? Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Migrant Health Specialist, Global Migration and Quarantine, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

11:20 Bioethical Aspects of Immigration Policy, the Case of Mexico – U.S. Manuel Ruiz de Chavez, President, National Commission of Bioethics of MexicoPM

12:00 Lunch and Poster Session

1:30 Panel I Migrant’s Health Under the Current Political Environment: Opportunities and Setbacks Moderator: Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Panelists:

• Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Office of US Senator for California Kamala Harris • Sandra Martinez, California Wellness Foundation

3:00 Break

Simultaneous Workshops & Discussion Tables3:15 1. Moving from Research to Public Policy Steven P. Wallace, Professor, UC Los Angeles 2. California Health Interview Survey: Data Tools to Assess Migrant Health

Bogdan Rau, Professor, School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles 3. Migration Survey at Mexico’s Northern Border (Presentation in Spanish) Luis Enrique Calva Sanchez, Researcher and Specialist in Migration and Health, Colegio de la Frontera Norte

4:45 End of Monday’s presentations

5:30 – 7:30 Welcome reception Chiguacle Sabor Ancestral de Mexico 103 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012, U.S.A

112th Summer Institute

on Migration & Global Health

Monday, June 26Location: The California Endowment

Conference Center

Agenda

june 26-28, 2017los angeles, california

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Tuesday, June 27Location: The California Endowment

Conference Center

Plenary Sessions AM

8:30 Coffee

8:45 2nd Global Consultation on Migrant Health: Resetting the Agenda, Davide Mosca, Migration Health Director, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

9:30 Mexican Efforts to Improve the Health of their Migrants Carlos Garcia de Alba, General Consul, General Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles

10:20 Break

10:35 Migration and Mental Health Jaenne Miranda, Professor, Health Policy and Management, UC Los Angeles

11:15 Immigrant Workers: Health and Safety in the Workplace Kevin Riley, Director of Research and Evaluation, Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, UC Los AngelesPM


1:15 Panel II Refugee Health Moderator: Emily Wen, Refugee Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Panelists:

• Marisa Ramos, Chief, Refugee Health Assessment Program, California Department of Public Health • Martin Zogg, Executive Director, International Rescue Committee • Wael Al-Delaimy, Division Chief, Global Health, UC San Diego

2:45 Break

Simultaneous Workshops 3:00

1. Overview of Research Methodologies for Migrant Populations Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Migrant Health Specialist, Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC 2. Violence, Migration, and Public Health Michael Rodriguez, Professor and Vice Chair, Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UC Los Angeles 3. The Role of Civic Society in Addressing Migrant Health Issues Moderator:

Xóchitl Castañeda, Director, Health Initiative of the Americas, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Panelists:

• Cynthia Buiza, Executive Director, California Immigrant Policy Center • Stella Kim, Senior Manager of Community Advocacy, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network • Anabella Bastida, Executive Director, Council of Mexican Federations

4:20 Closing remarks, presentation of certificates

4:45 End of Tuesday’s presentations



Plenary Sessions AM

8:30 Coffee

8:45 2nd Global Consultation on Migrant Health: Resetting the Agenda, Davide Mosca, Migration Health Director, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

9:30 Mexican Efforts to Improve the Health of their Migrants Carlos Garcia de Alba, General Consul, General Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles

10:20 Break

10:35 Migration and Mental Health Jaenne Miranda, Professor, Health Policy and Management, UC Los Angeles

11:15 Immigrant Workers: Health and Safety in the Workplace Kevin Riley, Director of Research and Evaluation, Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, UC Los AngelesPM


1:15 Panel II Refugee Health Moderator: Emily Wen, Refugee Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Panelists:

• Marisa Ramos, Chief, Refugee Health Assessment Program, California Department of Public Health • Martin Zogg, Executive Director, International Rescue Committee • Wael Al-Delaimy, Division Chief, Global Health, UC San Diego

2:45 Break

Simultaneous Workshops 3:00

1. Overview of Research Methodologies for Migrant Populations Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Migrant Health Specialist, Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC 2. Violence, Migration, and Public Health Michael Rodriguez, Professor and Vice Chair, Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UC Los Angeles 3. The Role of Civic Society in Addressing Migrant Health Issues Moderator:

Xóchitl Castañeda, Director, Health Initiative of the Americas, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley Panelists:

• Cynthia Buiza, Executive Director, California Immigrant Policy Center • Stella Kim, Senior Manager of Community Advocacy, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network • Anabella Bastida, Executive Director, Council of Mexican Federations

4:20 Closing remarks, presentation of certificates

4:45 End of Tuesday’s presentations

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Wednesday, June 28

Field Trip9:00 AM – 2:00 PM • Ventanillas de Salud Program, Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles Address: 2401 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057

• White Memorial Medical Center Address: 1720 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033

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Poster SessionMonday Detection of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Migrant Farmworkers Along the US-Mexico BorderErika Barrett, University of Arizona

Knowledge of MediCal Eligibility Among US and Foreign-Born Youth in Los AngelesBlair G Darney, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Assessing the Impact of a Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration on Cancer Screening and Vaccination Rates Among the Medicaid, Low-Income, and Uninsured Population of the City of El Paso and Surrounding U.S./Mexico Border RegionRosemary Hash, MPH, Health Researcher, City of El Paso Department of Public Health

Migration and Health in the Southern Border of Mexico: Care Cases in the Soconusco Region, ChiapasClaudia Morales, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Neighborhood Environment and Depression Symptoms in a Low-Income Migrant Community on the U.S.-Mexico BorderEmily Wolfsohn, Research Assistant, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego

TuesdayShort-term Mobility and Sexual Behavior – Testing the Selection, Enabling, and Influence Hypotheses Susan Cassels, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara

Immigration, Residential Mobility, and HIV RiskColin Loustalot, UC Santa Barbara

Public Health Implications of U.S. Deportations and Return Migration to HondurasJuliane E. Morris, MD, EdM, UC San Francisco/SFGH Family and Community Medicine, PGY2

Valley Fever Among California Hispanic Farm WorkersCate Portillo-Silva, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced

Visions and Voices: Using Photovoice to Document International Migrants’ Health Needs in Santiago, ChileMellissa Withers, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

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Speakers

Wael Al-Delaimyis a professor and division chief of Global Health at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Director of the Institute for Public Health in UC San Diego. He has worked and trained in 4 different continents with the most notable scientists in these countries. He Joined UC San Diego in 2004 as an Assistant Professor coming from the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston where he was a Scientist and Research Associate, respectively. He finished his PhD from New Zealand’s Otago University and his medical and post-graduate diploma from his native country; Iraq. His work in epidemiology and global health is focused on non-communicable diseases, mental health, climate change, tobacco, human rights, public health advocacy, ethics, and environmental health. His recent work involved mental health assessment in refugee populations in San Diego with special focus on Somali and Iraqi mother-child pairs and has established a consortium of 4 universities on Global Mental Health in the Middle East.

Anabella BastidaAs the Executive Director for the Council of Mexican-American Federations (COFEM), Anabella Bastida serves one of the most dynamic movements empowering immigrant families. COFEM is one of the largest member-based organizations in California striving to develop active community leaders and mobilize its membership to improve the educational and socioeconomic attainment of Latino and immigrant families in the state and nationally. Ms. Bastida, has developed and implemented many of COFEM’s major projects as a lead staff member with the organization since its founding in 2005. She has successfully built upon the strength of immigrant-led organizations by further developing their leadership through initiatives and services. Through her vision and leadership since being named Executive Director in 2012, Ms. Bastida has helped COFEM expand its membership base to not only 14 Mexican Federations, but, also two Latina women’s organizations and a youth sports league—all important trust-centers with the Latino immigrant community. Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Bastida has successfully engaged this base in the struggle to defend undocumented families. She holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies and a Masters in Multicultural Education from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Stefano Bertozziis dean and professor of Health Policy and Management at the UC Berkeley, School of Public Health. Previously, he directed the HIV and tuberculosis programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Bertozzi worked at the Mexican National Institute of Public Health as director of its Center for Evaluation Research and Surveys. He was the last director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS and has also held positions with UNAIDS, the World Bank, and the government of the DRC. He is currently co-chair of the Health Working Group for the UC –Mexico Initiative and co-editor of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) volume on HIV/AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis. He has served on governance and advisory boards for WHO, UNAIDS, the Global Fund, PEPFAR, the NIH, Duke University, the University of Washington, and the AMA. He has advised NGOs, and ministries of health and social welfare in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in health policy and management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his medical degree at UC San Diego and trained in internal medicine at UC San Francisco.



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Cynthia Buizais the Executive Director of the California Immigrant Policy Center. Cynthia has over two decades of experience in nonprofit management and human rights advocacy. She worked on international refugee, migration, human rights and civil rights issues in Southeast Asia before working with ACLU as Policy Director for its San Diego regional affiliate. She was also Policy and Advocacy Director at CHIRLA in Los Angeles from 2007-2010. For the past three years, she worked as a consultant with various immigrant rights and civil rights institutions and social justice organizations in California and the U.S., helping shape their strategic direction and plans for sustainability. Most recently, she managed a statewide capacity building project involving nine regional coalitions in California, which aims to strengthen these coalitions’ viability through a combination of highly customized training, grantmaking and leadership coaching. An immigrant from the Philippines, she worked with various international organizations, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Open Society Institute-Burma Education Project in Thailand, and the Jesuit Refugee Service before moving to the U.S. She earned a Masters in International Affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, with a concentration on human security studies. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work from the Philippines and a Certificate in Refugee and Migration Studies from the Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre in England.

Luis Enrique Calvacompleted his actuarial studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM for its Spanish acronym) and his postgraduate studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He is interested in the skilled migration of Mexicans to the United States and the methodology for the study of migratory flows. For the past four years, he has collaborated in the Survey on Migration in the Northern Border of Mexico (Emif Norte for its Spanish acronym). He is currently part of the prestigious Cátedras-CONACYT program in Mexico and is a member of the National System of Researchers. His most recent work in collaboration with Dr. Marie-Laure Coubès, is titled “Deceleration of migratory dynamics: a general decline of the outflow and return of Mexican migrants.”

Xochitl Castañedais the Director of Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the School of Public Health, University of California (UC) Berkeley since 2001. Her leadership has resulted in the creation of binational programs to improve the health and quality of life of migrants in the United States. Among them, are the Binational Health Weeks and “Ventanillas de Salud” in several consulates of Latin American countries. Through these strategies, thousands of people receive medical care and counseling on how to obtain health services by government and community agencies in the United States. A medical anthropologist by training, Xóchitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in reproductive health at UC San Francisco; and a post-doctoral in social science and medicine at Harvard and at Amsterdam Universities. In 1999 she received the National Award for Research in Social Sciences and Health and recently the California Legislative Caucus recognized her work with a national recognition. She has published more than 150 scientific papers and has served as a consultant for more than 30 international organizations, and a board member of 9 international organizations.

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Julie Chavez Rodriguezis the State Director for United States Senator Kamala D. Harris. Julie oversees all office operations across five district offices and serves as the Senator’s principal representative among constituents and elected leaders throughout California. Previously, Julie was Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Deputy Director of Public Engagement at the White House. In that capacity, Julie managed a team of associate directors working with leaders in the LGBT, AAPI, Latino, Veterans, Youth, Education, Labor, and Progressive communities and supported efforts to reform the nation’s immigration system, improve services for veterans, and increase access to affordable, quality health care. Prior to joining the White House, Julie served as the Director of Youth Employment at the Department of the Interior and the Deputy Press Secretary to former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Julie was born and raised in California’s Central Valley, attended UC Berkeley, and worked for the Cesar E. Chávez Foundation in Los Angeles for 9 years prior to joining the Obama Administration.

Carlos Garcia de Albawas born in the city of Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico. He has a BA in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco. He has a Masters Degree in Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Rome, Italy. He joined the Mexican Foreign Service in 1987 and was promoted to Ambassador in 2006. He was ratified by the Mexican Senate as Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles in April 2016. He also served as Executive Director for the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (2009-2011), and as Ambassador of Mexico to Ireland from 2011 to 2016. He has published numerous articles on foreign policy issues, youth, environment, agricultural economics and public administration. He has given over 300 lectures and courses on various subjects in several countries. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the national section in the newspaper Reforma in Mexico City (2009).

Stella Kimis a graduate of UC Berkeley and holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Prior to CPEHN, she worked as the Western Director of Strategic Campaigns at Young Invincibles and advanced statewide policies and legislation to fight poverty at the Center for Community Change’s California Partnership project. She is passionate about building community-based social justice movements and was an Economic Justice Fellow with the Women’s Policy Institute in 2010. Stella also worked as an International Trade Policy Fellow at the AFL-CIO’s Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Sandra Martinezis director of public policy at The California Wellness Foundation. In this capacity, she plans, coordinates and oversees Cal Wellness’ public policy activities as a means of advancing its mission, achieving its goals and amplifying the impact of its grantmaking. She is responsible for grantmaking related to advancing public policy, which addresses health issues from a systemic perspective and supports efforts focused on improving policies or conditions using activities such as education, advocacy, civic engagement, and policy analysis. Martínez joined Cal Wellness as a program director in January 2002 and became the director of public policy in 2011. Previously, Martínez directed the Progressive Los Angeles Network and directed other community-organizing efforts at the Community Coalition in South Los Angeles. Currently she serves on the advisory board for the California Health Interview Survey and on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Trade Tech College Foundation. She received her bachelor’s degree from UCLA and her master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.



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Jeanne Mirandais a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She has focused her research on providing mental health care to low-income and minority communities. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Kansas and completed post-doctoral training at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Miranda’s major research contributions have been in evaluating the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority communities. She is currently working to evaluate an intervention her team developed to provide care for families adopting older children from foster care. She is adapting depression interventions for young women in Uganda and evaluating a government micro-finance program in Uganda. She has recently been funded to develop and test a resilience intervention for low-income and minority LGBT populations. She was the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, published August 2001. She became a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2005. Dr. Miranda is the 2008 recipient of the Emily Mumford Award for Contributions to Social Medicine from Columbia University.

Davide Moscaa native of Taranto, Italy, specialized in Emergency Surgery at the University of Modena. Initially, he worked for the Italian Technical Cooperation as a surgeon but eventually shifted his focus towards public health. In 1994, he joined the International Organization for Migration, where he designed programs for the reintegration of internally displaced people—mostly refugess and demobilized soldiers. In 1996, he relocated to Angola to aid with post conflict programs of the UNAVEM III Mission. From 1998 to 2008 he worked in Nairobi as Regional Medical Officer for Africa and the Middle East; during this time, he coordinated emergency health programs where he assisted in the medical evacuation of civilians affected by the war in Iraq. In 2008, Dr. Mosca was appointed as the Director of Migration Health Department at IOM, headquartered in Geneva, where he continues providing health to migrants worldwide.

Marisa RamosPhD, has been with the California Department of Public Health, Office of Refugee Health (ORH) for 10 years and currently is the chief of ORH. She has 20 years of experience managing and working on multicultural health programs and has authored multiple publications and presented at local, state, national and international conferences on refugee and Latino health issues. Prior to coming to CDPH, Dr. Ramos was an Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of California, Davis, where she currently serves as a volunteer Professor of Public Health. Dr. Ramos completed both Masters and Doctoral programs in Biological Nutrition with an emphasis in Epidemiology from the University of California, Davis.

Bogdan Rauis the Online Dissemination Manager for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). He manages the development, implementation and maintenance of multiple public health surveillance tools powered by The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), including AskCHIS, CHIS’ flagship online dissemination product, and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition, a new health query system that provides health information and visualizations for California’s zip codes and cities. Bogdan earned his MPH with a concentration in epidemiology from the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, and his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine.

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Kevin Rileyis Director of Research and Evaluation at the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (UCLA-LOSH). His research focuses on workplace hazards and work-related injuries/illnesses with the goal of informing public policy. He has overseen a number of projects examining safety and health conditions for migrant workers in Southern California—including those working as day laborers, domestic workers, taxi drivers, carwash workers, and in-home caregivers. He received his MPH from the UCLA Community Health Sciences department and a PhD in Sociology from UCLA.

Michael Rodriguezis Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America and Co-Director of the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health. His research activities include ethnic/racial health disparities, immigration, food insecurity, violence prevention, and development of research capacity in low and middle income countries. He has published widely and lectured internationally on the topics of intimate partner violence, medical education, cross-cultural medicine and collaborative development of domestic and international research capacity. He has consulted for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine.

Alfonso Rodriguez-LainzPhD, DVM, MPVM, is a Migrant Health Specialist for the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Dr. Rodriguez’s main responsibilities include acting as a liaison, coordinator, planner and project lead for domestic migrant health activities. Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Rodriguez was the senior epidemiologist for the California Office of Binational Border Health, California Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in coordinating cross-border surveillance and public health projects between California, Mexico and Latin America. Dr. Rodriguez has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Davis. He has coauthored many peer-reviewed publications and several border and migrant health reports. He also teaches courses on migrant health, global surveillance and international epidemiology at SDSU Graduate School of Public Health.

Manuel Ruiz de Chavezis the National Bioethics Commissioner of Mexico since 2009. He has assumed various positions at the highest levels of health institutions in the areas of public health, primary care and health research in the national and international field. He is currently the official representative of Mexico at the Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), Council of Europe, as well as UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC). He was one of the founders of the Health Initiative of the Americas, UC Berkeley, and from 2008 to 2010 he served as Member of the Advisory Board. In recent years, Dr. Ruiz de Chavez has focused on migration from a bioethical approach, fostering the protection of fundamental rights of migrants, while promoting their social inclusion, as well as raising awareness about the health needs of the migrant population in Mexico and Mexican migrants aboard.



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Marc Schenker is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the UC Davis, School of Medicine. Dr. Schenker has over 30 years of experience in medicine and public health. He is the founding director of the Davis Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety and the Migration and Health Research Center. His specialty is occupational and environmental disease. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and occupational health. He conducts epidemiologic research and teaches in these areas, with a particular focus on lung disease, reproductive hazards, and the health of immigrants and farm working populations. Dr. Schenker has published over 200 scientific manuscripts and 5 textbooks. He has conducted work on occupational health hazards in the U.S. and Latin America, and has worked on global health committees and programs with collaborators around the world.

Santino SeveroniMD, Coordinator of Public Health and Migration, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has held senior positions at the World Health Organization European Office since 2000. In the last 22 years he has been working in several countries in Eastern Africa, Balkans, Central Asia and Europe. He has dedicated his professional work to public health, health sector reforms, health system strengthening, health diplomacy, aid coordination/effectiveness, management of complex emergencies and coordinating the public health aspect of migration work for the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Steven P. WallacePh.D is a professor and chairperson of the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Wallace has studied immigration issues since the mid-1980s. His interest in migration issues now focuses on access to health care and services for the elderly. His work includes studies of Latin American and Asian immigrant elders, as well as analyses of access to health care and preventive services for nonelderly adults. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, 25 book chapters, and dozens of policy briefs. His current research includes projects to build community-based participatory research skills among environment health science researchers and immigrant communities in Los Angeles, an analysis of the impact of health care reform on undocumented immigrants, and several studies that identify gaps in health policies for underserved elders.

Emily Wenhas served as the administrator of the Refugee Health Assessment Program, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health since 2011. This program provides a clinic-based comprehensive health assessment for newly arrived refugees and other eligible persons. Prior to that, she worked at the Massachusetts Refugee and Immigrant Health Program coordinating outreach health education services for newly arrived refugees in the Greater Boston area. Her overseas experience includes a short internship with the International Organization for Migration in Kenya and a stint in the Marshall Islands as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She has a Masters in Public Health degree.

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Martin Zoggis the Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee in Los Angeles. He started his nonprofit career with IRC in 1992 as its Country Director in Yugoslavia, where he did the start-up for IRC’s Belgrade office as the war in Bosnia & Herzegovina began. Thereafter he was a Refugee Affairs Officer for the United Nations in the West Bank and Gaza and was the long-time Director of International Operations for International Medical Corps, where he managed IMC’s relief operations around the world. He rejoined IRC in 2012 to lead its Southern California operations. He is the current chair of the State Advisory Council for Refugee Assistance and Services and the past chair of the Refugee Forum of Los Angeles. Mr. Zogg has advanced degrees in law and journalism.



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