Research

Our research agenda is focused on:

  • Refugee and asylee health
  • Patterns of human rights violations
  • Successful border policies and underlying structural factors which impact health of newcomers, including insecure housing, exposure to violence, and barriers to education and employment.
  • Evaluation and dissemination of our educational and operational models

 

Publications

Published August 2024 by American Pyschological Association

William Martinez, PhD, was a co-author on a recent presidential task force report titled Psychological Science and Immigration Today, which calls for a population health approach to working with immigrants. This resolution was also adopted by the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives.  

 

Published July 2024 by Academic Pediatrics

Immigrant and Refugee Health Curricula in US-Based Medical Training: A Scoping Review to Inform Integration Into Pediatric Residency Programs 

Lisa Gantz MD, FAAP, Suzinne Pak-Gorstein MD, MPH, PhD  Juan Raul Gutierrez MD, MPH, FAAP Zarin Noor MD, MPH, FAAP and Sural Shah MD, MPH, FAAP 


Published on October 22, 2022 by British Journal of Dermatology

Improving Migrant Health in the United States: Opportunities for Dermatologists to 1 Participate in Care Delivery, Asylum Medicine, and Community Partnership 

Penelope Kim-Lim, Herbert Castillo Valladares, Alexia Knapp, Coleen Kivlahan and Aileen Y. Chang 


Published on November 15, 2022 by the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 

Academic Health Centers and Humanitarian Crises: One Health System’s Response to Unaccompanied Children at the Border

Devaskar, Sherin U. MD1; Cunningham, Coleen K. MD2; Steinhorn, Robin H. MD3; Haq, Cynthia MD4; Spisso, Johnese RN, MPA5; Dunne, William6; Gutierrez, Juan Raul MD, MPH7; Kivlahan, Coleen MD, MSPH8; Bholat, Michelle MD, MPH9; Barakat, Suzanne MD10; de Leon Siantz, Mary Lou PhD, RN11; Romero, Stephanie MPA12; Lefteris, Chad T.13; Gaffney, Samantha MSHA, MBA14; Deville, Jaime MD15; Lerner, Carlos MD, MPhil16; Liu, Jasen MD17; Kuelbs, Cynthia L. MD18; Kukreja, Sudeep MD19; Golden, Charles MD20; Nelson, Zoanne MBA21; Elton, Kristie MSPT22; Byington, Carrie L. MD23


Published on November 15, 2022 by the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 

Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum

Jaradeh, Katrin1; Sergi, Francesco MPH2; Kivlahan, Coleen MD, MSPH3; Nava Gonzales, Cesar4; Cury, Mar CMHW, CMA5; DeFries, Triveni MD, MPH6


Published on November 3, 2022 by the Journal of Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture

Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical evaluations​

Aaron Gallagher, Gabriela Steiner, Martha Michel, Cesar Nava Gonzales, Sabrina Mendez-Contreras, Alice Lu, Marcos Armendariz, Triveni DeFries, Suzanne Barakat, Coleen Kivlahan


Published on September 1, 2022 by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 

32934 Evaluation of a pilot clinical forensic dermatology curriculum at UCSF Department of Dermatology​

 


Published on January 31, 2022 by Journal of Addiction 

Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder

Triveni DeFries 1Jacqueline Kelley 2Marlene Martin 1Sarah L Kimball 3 4


Published on October 27, 2020 by the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Treatment of Migrant Children on the US Southern Border Is Torture

Charles Oberg, MD, MPH, Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH, MD, Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, William Martinez, PhD, Juan Raul Gutierrez, MD, Zarin Noor, MD, Jeffrey Goldhagen, MD, MPH