HHRI Trainings & Events

UPCOMING:

Addiction, in Immigrant Mental Health (March 27, 2025) 

Immigrant Mental Health is live virtual course through Harvard continuing education, presented by the Cambridge Health Alliance, that offers CME training on the prevalence of mental health disorders across immigrant groups, the culturally specific manifestations of symptoms, and how to implement trauma-informed care. Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH will present on Addiction on Thursday, March 27, 2025 12:00-12:50 PM, followed by a Q&A 12:50-1:30 PM with Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH; Ingrid Sarmiento, PhD; Luciana Quintanilha, MSW, LICSW

Addressing Mental Health Concerns of Children and Adolescents (April 2025)

Through a sponsored award by the Supporting Trauma Affected Refugees program of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Dr. Will Martinez will provide a clinical training for the clinical team at the Partnerships for Trauma Recovery to enhance the center's capacity to serve children and adolescent immigrants and refugees at their clinics. 

ONGOING:

Monthly Webinar Series - As part of our ongoing efforts to expand open-access education on topics relevant to displacement and humanitarian protection, the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative hosts monthly webinars that are free to the public and are intended to encourage dialogue. These events are jointly organized and co-sponsored by the Cambridge Health Alliance Asylum Program, UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative, Johns Hopkins HEAL Collaborative, and the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative.

Global Health and Human Rights Webinar Series

 

Past: 2024


Advancing Care for Asylum Seekers: A Multidisciplinary Forum (October 19, 2024)  

The Northern California Human Rights Clinic (HRC)  in collaboration with Partnerships for Trauma Recovery (PTR) and UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative hosted a symposium, Advancing Care for Asylum Seekers: A Multidisciplinary Forum on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at Highland Hospital in Oakland. This forum was aimed to convene professionals providing care for asylum seekers in any capacity including clinicians, lawyers, interpreters, and mental health care providers. 

Dr. Triveni DeFries presented on Global to Local: Serving asylum seekers at the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative (August 29, 2024) 

Dr. DeFries' presentation was a part of the UCSF GME Global Health Pathway course.

Dr. Zarin Noor presented on Pediatric Asylum Medicine (August 15, 2024)

Dr. Noor's presentation was a part of the UCSF Global Child Health Lecture Series 2024.  Zarin Noor, MD, MPH, is the Pediatric Co-Director of the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative, and a co-director of the UCSF Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Noor is a pediatrician at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland primary care clinic and the director of the international clinic within the primary care clinic, which focuses on the medical care of pediatric immigrants and refugees. She is an associate program director for the UCSF Benioff Oakland Pediatric Residency Program, where she teaches medical students and residents. Noor has a United States Civil Surgeon designation and provides medical exams for immigration purposes.

Article by the UCSF Foundation about Dr. Noor's work "Serving Every Child : How UCSF is leading the national effort to care for refugee children"

North American Refugee Health Conference (August 5, 2024) 

The North American Refugee Health Conference (NARHC) took place August 5-7, 2024 in Minneapolis, MN. At NARHC, Drs. Brusca and DeFries presented a poster on resident participation in asylum medicine.  HHRI Executive Director, Dr. DeFries was on two panel discussions, "Testifying as Medical & Mental Health Experts in Asylum Proceedings" and "Meet Your Asylum Medicine Mentors"; HHRI Faculty Evaluator, Herbert Castillo Valladares was on a panel discussion, "Forensic Dermatology: Assessment of Cutaneous Manifestations of Trauma, Injury, and Torture"; and HHRI Director Dr. Jess Ghannam was a panelist on "The Gaza Health Crisis: Centering Palestinian Voices". 

Coordinating with Attorneys to Advance Care for Immigrant Patients: Understanding the Policy & Legal Context (July 29, 2024)

The Immigrant Health Equity and Legal Partnerships (ImmHELP) offered an interdisciplinary, virtual workshop for California health care providers focused on information and strategies to advance care and coordination for immigrant patients, particularly asylum seekers. Speakers included HHRI Pediatric Co-Director Raul Gutierrez (MD),  HHRI's Pediatric Mental Health Director, Will Martinez (PhD, ABPP), Cecilia Candia (JD), Kelly Edyburn (PhD), and Maria Jimenez-Salazar (PhD).

Helix Medical Presentation (July 12, 2024)

Human Rights Collaborative Clinic Coordinator, Shiveny Condor Montes, presented on the Human Rights Collaborative asylum clinic at Helix Medical — a student-run organization at UC Berkeley that provides high school students a 4-week intensive summer medical program to further their interests in medicine.

The Connection between Global Health and Immigrant Health - UCSF Grand Rounds (June 12, 2024)

Institute of Global Health Sciences Grand Rounds with UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative - Current migration trends, the connection between global health and immigrant health, and opportunities to be involved with local efforts supporting immigrant families were presented by Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH, associate clinical professor at UCSF, Jyothi Marbin, MD, a general pediatrician who practices at San Francisco General Hospital and Zarin Noor, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Primary Care clinic.

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ImmHELP & GHRC Roundtable (March 15, 2024)

On March 15, 2024, HHRI participated in ImmHELP & GHRC Roundtable: Best Practices for Mental Health Evaluations in Asylum Cases: Mental health evaluations often serve as critical evidence in an individual’s asylum case. This virtual workshop explored scenarios where mental health evaluators’ credentials or expertise may be challenged in immigration court proceedings, including non-doctoral evaluators and non-psychiatrists performing physical and psychological evaluations. 

National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs 2024 Annual Meeting and the 16th Annual Research Symposium (March 2024)

In March 2024, we presented at the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs 2024 Annual Meeting and the 16th Annual Research Symposium. Dr DeFries co-presented on "Asylum Medicine Training Initiative: A novel online curriculum to define and disseminate best practices in forensic evaluation of immigrants seeking humanitarian protection" and Dr. Kivlahan co-presented on "Intensity of their suffering: Long-term physical and psychological symptoms in detained Syrian men, subjected to CRSV, torture and displacement".

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Global to Local: A journey in community health (April 27, 2024)

Dr. Triveni DeFries presented the keynote address at the UC Community Health Conference on "Global to Local: A journey in community health" at UC Davis School of Medicine on April 27th, 2024

Delivering Humanitarian Health Care for Migrants at the US-Mexico Border, by Cesar Mendez Lizarraga (March 25, 2024)

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Past: 2023 and prior