HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL PRIMARY CARE REVIEW

Personal Perspectives

Behind the Wall I Escape

September 29th, 2022

By: Deborah Oniah

 

Behind the wall of unemployment, I escape. I have a right to work. I have a Law Degree and a Life Coaching Certificate.[...]

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Stories

The Salutary Impact of Listening to the Trauma Story

June 8th, 2022

By: Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR

 

I entered the Brighton Marine Public Health Center in Massachusetts in December 1981, where hundreds of Indochinese[...]

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Advocacy

Language Barriers to Optimal Health Care: Caring for Migrant Workers in the Middle East

June 3rd, 2022

By: Saad I. Mallah

 

What good is art when the viewer is blind to the colors you draw in?

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Stories

Refugee Agency and Mobile Health Solutions: The Story of Fatima Connect

April 5th, 2022

By: Ayah Hamdan, BS

 

Refugee, asylum-seeking, and migrant women often experience adverse reproductive health outcomes, and 60% of the[...]

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Stories

Trauma-Informed, Holistic Health Care: A Journey from Patient to Advocate

February 24th, 2022

By: Keisha Walcott

 

PurpLE Health Foundation is a non-profit organization in New York City, which invests in the physical, mental, and[...]

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Advocacy

Whose Trauma? De-Colonizing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Refugee Mental Health Frameworks

January 27th, 2022

By: Suad Joseph, PhD, Osama Tanous, MD, Nadine Hosny, MSc, and Patrick Marius Koga, MD, MPH, FRSPH

 

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma needs in the Arab region

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Sudden Death in the Realm of Possibility: The Psychosocial Trauma, Uncertainty, and Health Care Needs of Migrants Crossing the Mexico-U.S. Border

December 21st, 2021

By: Annekathryn Goodman, MD, MPH, Kristen Giambusso, MPH, Lindsey Martin, NP, Mary Sebert RN, MPH, and Lynn Black, MD, MPH

 

Matamoros, Mexico: The living conditions of displaced migrants

Poverty, violence, natural disasters, and political[...]

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COVID-19 Ravages the COFA Community in Hawai‘i

April 22nd, 2021

By: Nash Witten, MD

 

As of January 31, 2021, Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i had the highest age-adjusted mortality rate in the United States[...]

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Winds of Change: Communicating the Biden Administration’s Immigration Policies Can Help Combat the Pandemic

March 30th, 2021

By: Randy Capps, PhD

 

With rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths falling dramatically from peaks in January, the United[...]

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All Essential Workers Deserve a Path to Citizenship

March 17th, 2021

By: Eva Millona, JD, MA

 

Recently, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) was a proud sponsor of the New England[...]

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