Thematic Focus: Health

Opportunity:

Awards: Health Research Training Awards for Refugees [info]
- Apply for doctoral research award by 4 October 2016 and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award by 1 November 2016.

Publications:

"Access to Health for Refugees in Greece: Lessons in Inequalities," International Journal for Equity in Health, 15:122 (Aug. 2016) [open access]

"Acute Care Hospitalization, by Immigrant Category: Linking Hospital Data and the Immigrant Landing File in Canada," Health Reports, vol. 27, no. 8 (Aug. 2016) [full-text]

"Complex Emergencies," Chapter 7 in Ciottone's Disaster Medicine, 2nd ed. (Elsevier, Nov. 2015) [eprint via ResearchGate]

"Economic Analysis of the Impact of Overseas and Domestic Treatment and Screening Options for Intestinal Helminth Infection among US-Bound Refugees from Asia," PLoS: Neglected Tropical Diseases 10(8): e0004910 (Aug. 2016) [open access]

"Excess Mortality in Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Resident Populations in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (1998-2012): Insights from Operational Data," Conflict and Health, 10:15 (July 2016) [open access]

Guidelines for Health Staff Caring for Gender-based Violence Survivors: Including Protocol for Clinical Management of Rape (Global Protection Cluster & Health Cluster, Aug. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Health Service Access and Utilization among Syrian Refugees in Jordan," International Journal for Equity in Health, 15:108 (July 2016) [open access]

Humanitarian Emergency in Northeast Nigeria (BMJ Blog, Aug. 2016) [text]

"Migrant and Refugee Patient Perspectives on Travel and Tuberculosis along the Thailand-Myanmar Border: A Qualitative Study," PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160222 (Aug. 2016) [open access]

'Moving on' Violence, Wellbeing and Questions about Violence in Antenatal Care Encounters: A Qualitative Study with Somali-born Refugees in Sweden," Midwifery Journal, vol. 40 (Sept. 2016) [open access]

"A Step toward Tuberculosis Elimination in a Low-incidence Country: Successful Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Refugee Clinic," Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2016:7980869 (Feb. 2016) [open access]

"Systemic Violence against Syrian Refugee Women and the Myth of Effective Intrapersonal Interventions," Reproductive Health Matters, Article in Press, 6 June 2016 [free full-text]

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- Thematic Focus: Health (18 July 2016)

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