Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences
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Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative. She practices Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She is an Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco in General Internal Medicine, Core Faculty in the Institute of Global Health Sciences, and Affiliated faculty of the Latinx Center of Excellence. She specializes in medicolegal collaboration for immigrant health, and the medical documentation of human rights abuses on behalf of asylum seekers and survivors of persecution. She leads the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative and serves as a Medical Expert for Physicians for Human Rights.

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