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
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
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
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
Sami Jelousi, BS, Rubi Danielle Montejano, BS, Katrin Jaradeh, BS, Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH, Kanade Shinkai, MD, PhD, Aileen Chang, MD
Published on January 31, 2022 by Journal of Addiction
Triveni DeFries 1, Jacqueline Kelley 2, Marlene Martin 1, Sarah 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