HHRI - Health Care Professionals as Advocates: UCSF Advanced Asylum and Refugee Symposium

Date: 
September 12, 2020
Time: 
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (PST)
Place: 
Zoom

Join us in our advanced learning community for clinicians performing asylum evaluations.  The purpose of this training is to increase our competence and improve our practice in medical/psychological forensic documentation. You may join any of three different Tracks as well as join Sessions across Tracks:

  • Legal and Advocacy Issues
  • Advanced Adult Asylum Evaluations
  • Child and Adolescent Issues in Immigrant Court

We will also hear from international colleagues about performing torture evaluations in conflict zones and shared lessons learned, as well as from our Human Rights Cooperative's Medical Student Coordinators.

We welcome participants across the USA and internationally, it is brought to you at no cost for you and your colleagues.

AcCESS RECORDINGS HERE

For any inquiries, contact Stephanie Romero: [email protected]

This training was organized by members of the Health & Human Rights Initiative: Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH, William Martinez, PhD, Cristina Biasetto, LCSW, Stephanie Romero, MPA, Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH, J Raul Gutierrez, MD, Fatima Karaki, MD, Sarah Metz, Psy.D, Zarin Noor, MD, MPH, Adri Jayaratne, MA, Samantha Ybona, MA, Aura Aparicio, MA, Sally Oh, Ali Zahir, Zoë Onion, Nancy Buenaventura, Marcos Armendariz, Cesar Nava Gonzales