Wake Forest School of Medicine Immigrant Health Advocacy

09/05/2018

Denying women the abortions they seek leads to poor maternal bonding w/ the child & greater financial challenges for the household. New results available in JAMA Pediatrics ANSIRH

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2698454

06/23/2018

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Statement-on-Executive-Order-on-Family-Separation.aspx

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06/19/2018

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html

Lawyers, translators, donations, protest.

06/05/2018

https://www.revealnews.org/article/immigrant-families-face-new-threat-to-childrens-health-uncertainty/

A year later, the legacy of California’s first immigration raid under Trump still ripples through the local school and within families as well.

02/08/2018

"In medicine, the network for care must not only include the child but the family. Taking that to a broader level, it includes the community. And when I consider the impact of policy on the children I see –the risk of family separation due to threatened deportation, educational inequity based on race or zip code — I recognize that clinical care too falls within a broader network. And that is where my daily human connections intersect with the power to combat inequity with networks."

Julie M. Linton, MD, FAAP

02/06/2018

Q&A with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris on childhood traumas

In “The Deepest Well,” Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explores how adverse childhood events can have repercussions years or decades later.

01/25/2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVS8xYhBM0A

Rose O’Brien is a senior Politics and International Affairs major from Winston Salem, NC. In addition to being a Carswell Scholar, she also received the Rich...

01/08/2018

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eat-for-a-cause-ethiopian-tickets-39634446697?aff=es2

**ALL MONEY COLLECTED FOR THIS CLASS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE REFUGEE TEACHING IT!** Join us for a unique experience as we team up with RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Society of Entrepreneurs) and the Y's ESL programs for a memorable night around the table. Refugee women will prepare a meal and share th...

12/22/2017

12/11/2017

Equally as important in immigrant kids and populations

Bringing trauma-informed treatment to children suffering psychological trauma, rather than sending them elsewhere for it, can ease damaging toxic stress.

11/18/2017

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood trauma stays with us for our entire lives

10/07/2017

http://abc7news.com/health/bay-area-physicians-say-immigrant-families-fearful-of-trips-to-the-doctor/2500997/

Doctors in the East Bay say they are seeing the effects that fear is having on the health of their immigrant patients. They say sometimes those patients are even scared to go to the doctor.