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Oakland, California

June 14-17, 2016

11th Summer Institute on migration and global health

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Tuesday June 14Location: The California Endowment, 7th Floor

1111 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607

8:00 – 8:45 AM Registration & Coffee

8:45 – 9:00 AM Welcoming RemarksStefano Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

9:00 – 9:15 AM Participant Introductions

Plenary Sessions (Eastmont Room)9:15 – 9:45 AM Migration and Global Health: Historic and Current Trends

Marc Schenker, Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine, UC Davis9:45 – 10:00 AM Discussion

10:00 – 10:15 AM Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:30 AM Global Perspective and Current Actions on Migration, Human Mobility and Public Health Panel presentation:• Davide Mosca, Director of Migration Health Department, International Organization for Migration (IOM)• Santino Severoni, Coordinator of Public Health and Migration, Word Health Organization Europe (WHO)

11:30 – 12:00 PM U.S. Strategies on Migrant HealthAlfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Migrant Health Specialist, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers forDisease Control and Prevention (CDC)

12:00 – 12:15 PM Discussion

12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 – 4:00 PM Simultaneous Workshops:1. Studying Migrant Health: Approaches and Data Sources (Uptown Room) Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Migrant Health Specialist, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)2. Photovoice as a Research Instrument among Migrants (Lake Merritt Room)Regina Day Langhout, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz3. The California Health Interview Survey to Assess Migrant Health (Eastmont Room)Bogdan Rau, Online Dissemination Manager, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), UC Los Angeles

5:00 – 7:00 PM Welcoming Reception


Wednesday June 15Location: The California Endowment, 7th Floor


8:00 – 8:15 AM Coffee

Plenary Sessions (Eastmont Room)8:15 – 8:45 AM Infectious Diseases among Migrant Populations

Marc Schenker, Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine, UC Davis8:45 – 9:00 AM Discussion9:00 – 9:30 AM Farmworkers in the U.S.: Immigration Trends and Health Status

Jorge Nakamoto, Field Director and Trish Hernandez, Data Analyst for the National Agricultural Worker Survey, JBS International, Inc.

9:30 – 9:45 AM Discussion

9:45 – 10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:30 AM Climate Change, Environmental Migration, Health and Human SecurityCristina Tirado, Professor, Institute of Environment and Sustainability, UC Los Angeles

10:30 – 10:45 AM Discussion10:45 – 11:15 AM Refugee Health

Nuny Cabanting, Epidemiologist, Office of Refugee Health, California Department of Public Health11:15 – 11:30 AM Discussion11:30 – 12:00 PM Human Trafficking and Health

Rachel Silvey, Associate Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto 12:00 – 12:15 PM Discussion

12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 – 4:00 PM Simultaneous Workshops:1. The National Agricultural Workers Survey (Eastmont Room) Jorge Nakamoto, Trish Hernandez, and Leith Lombas, JBS International, Inc. 2. Climate Change and Migration: Case Studies (Lake Merritt Room)Cristina Tirado, Professor, Institute of Environment and Sustainability, UC Los Angeles3. Outreach and Health Promotion among Migrant Populations (Uptown Room)Alina Shaw, Health Communication Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Liliana Osorio, Deputy Director, Health Initiative of the Americas, UC Berkeley

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Thursday June 16 Location: The California Endowment, 7th Floor


Wednesday June 15

8:00 – 8:15 AM Coffee

Plenary Sessions (Eastmont Room)8:15 – 8:45 AM Sexual Partnerships and HIV Vulnerability in the Context of Internal and

International MigrationAnisha Gandhi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavior Studies, Columbia University

8:45 – 9:00 AM Discussion9:00 – 9:30 AM The Ulysses Syndrome: Migrants with Chronic and Multiple Stress Symptoms

Joseba Achotegui, Professor, University of Barcelona9:30 – 9:45 AM Discussion

9:45 - 10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:00– 10:30 AM Access to Healthcare for Immigrants in the U.S. Carmela Castellano-Garcia, President and CEO, California Primary Care Association (CPCA)

10:30 – 10:45 AM Discussion10:45 – 11:15 AM Understanding the “Latino Paradox”

Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, UC Los Angeles

11:15 – 11:30 AM Discussion11:30 – 12:00 PM Violence and Unaccompanied Minors: Trauma and Fleeing the Northern Triangle

Elizabeth G. Kennedy, Doctoral Candidate, UC Santa Barbara/ San Diego State University

11:15 – 11:30 AM Discussion

12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch and poster presentations (See page 7)

1:15 – 4:00 PM Simultaneous Workshops:1. A Methodological Strategy to Describe Transnational Spaces of Care for Chronic Illnesses (Lake Merritt Room)Alejandra Lizardi Gómez, Professor, Department of Social-Urban Studies, University of Guadalajara 2. Evaluation and Intervention on Stress and Migratory Mourning (Eastmont Room) Joseba Achotegui and Dori Espeso, Professors, University of Barcelona3. Moving from Research to Public Policy (Uptown Room)Steven P. Wallace, Associate Director, Center for Health Policy, UC Los Angeles and Xavier Morales, Executive Director, The Praxis Project

4:00 – 4:20 PM Closing Event: Presentation of Certificates and Group Picture

6:00 – 10:00 PM Optional Social Activity: Ferry trip from Oakland to San Francisco and dinner (not included in registration fee)


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Simultaneous Activities: Please choose one option.

Different Locations

Option 1 Site Visit “Ventanilla de Salud” ProgramLocation: Mexican Consulate in San Francisco (532 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA) *Transportation not provided, meet there

Option 2 University of California Graduate Students & PIMSA Research WorkshopsLocation: UC Berkeley, Genetics and Plant Biology Building room 103

9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcome and Introductions Heather Riden and Adrian Arellano, Center of Expertise on Migration and Health (COEMH)COEMH Presentations-Faculty Discussants: Annie Ro, UC Irvine and Steven Wallace, UC Los Angeles

9:45 – 10:15 AM Mind the Gap in Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children: The Effects of Parent Immigration StatusPaulette Cha, UC Berkeley

10:15 – 10:45 AM Stress and Coping among Asian and Pacific Islander Women Immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area Brittany Morey, UC Los Angeles

10:45 – 11:00 AM Break11:00 – 11:30 AM The HIV Risk Environment of Deported Migrants who Inject Drugs in Mexico: Police

Targeting and VictimizationMiguel Pinedo, UC Berkeley

11:30 – 12:00 PM An Ethnographic Study of Substance Use Risk among Latino Immigrant Families in the Eastern Coachella ValleyAnne Cheney, UC Riverside

12:00 – 12:30 PM Citizen Children in Undocumented Immigrant FamiliesJessie Pintor, UC Davis

12:30 – 1:15 PM LunchPIMSA Presentations

1:15 – 1:45 PM Health and Migration on the Southern Border of MexicoCecilia Rivas, UC Santa Cruz

1:45 – 2:15 PM Some Elements to Understand the Hispanic Paradox: Depression and Anxiety among Unemployed and Underemployed Latin-American Immigrants in the U.S. Maritza Caicedo Riascos, UNAM & Edwin van Gameren, El Colegio de Mexico

2:15 – 2:45 PM A Sociocultural Epidemiological Profile of the Mexican Migrant Elderly in Jalisco and TexasSilvia Torezani, University of Texas at El Paso

2:45 – 3:00 PM Break3:00 – 3:30 PM Health Status and Risks of Among the Tunkaseño Transnational Community: Contexts

and Correlates of International and Domestic Migration Miguel Pinedo, UC Berkeley

3:30 – 4:00 PM The Climate Refugees that Weren’t: Creativity, Well-Being, and (Im)mobility in Oaxaca David Kyle, UC Davis & Federico Castillo, UC Berkeley

4:00 – 4:15 PM Closing

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Poster Session - thursday June 16

12:15 - 1:15 PM

• Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children of Immigrants: Effects of Parent Immigration Status

Paulette Cha, UC Berkeley, Department of Demography, Health Services and Policy Analysis

• Statewide Promotores Training on Pesticide Safety Graciela Mendoza, BSW, Program Specialist; California Department of Public Health, Office of Binational Border Health

• Oral Health Care: An Unmet Need for Refugees Zahra Goliaei, University of San Francisco

• Long Working Hours and Self-reported General Health: Differences by Gender in Immigrant and Native workers in Spain

Ana Cayuela, Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Spain

Location: The California Endowment, 7th Floor1111 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607

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Dr. Achotegui is a professor of the University of Barcelona, Director of SAPPIR (Psychopathological and Psychosocial Support Service for Immigrants and Refugees) at the Hospital of Saint Peter Claver in Barcelona. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Postgraduate Course “Mental health and psychological support for immigrants, refugees and minority group members” at the University of Barcelona. He was awarded the Solidarity Award by the Catalan Parliament in 1997 for his work with immigrants groups. He is also coordinator of the international task force on “The Ulysses Syndrome” sponsored by the European Parliament Committee on Citizens’

Freedoms and Rights. Dr. Achotegui is also Secretary General of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, and author of the online blog “Salud mental en tiempos difíciles.”

Joseba Achotegui

Hiram Beltrán-SánchezDr. Beltrán-Sánchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at UC Los Angeles. His research focuses on the demography of health and aging. He has written on health patterns and trends in low- and middle-income countries; on aging in high-income countries including issues about compression of morbidity; on the links between early life experiences and late life outcomes; as well as on biomarker data from Mexico to study physiological patterns of health and their link with sociodemographic factors. He co-founded the Latin American Mortality

Database, the largest repository of aggregate mortality data for countries in Latin America (including data from around 1850). Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Dr. Beltrán-Sánchez was Research Associate at the Center for Demography of Health & Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a David E. Bell Fellow at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University from 2011 to 2013 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California from 2009-2011.

Nuny Cabanting, MPH, is currently the Epidemiologist of the Office of Refugee Health, California Department of Public Health. She received her B.A. in Psychology and B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Public Health from Des Moines University. She has over 15 years of public health experience in research design, data analysis and surveillance, and program management. She was involved in implementing quality assurance activities and evaluation tools among county health clinics, analyzing data trends of pregnancy and birth outcomes for the California Birth Defects Registry and leading efforts for early interventions of patients

with developmental disorders. For the past 4 years she has worked for the Office of Refugee Health in designing and maintaining an infectious disease surveillance system known as the Refugee Health Electronic Information System. Furthermore, she conducts research studies highly developed in scope and complexity to assess the health status among refugees in California. Other areas of public health interests include improving health disparities among populations with various cultural backgrounds and addressing health literacy concerning health promotion and prevention.

Nuny Cabanting

Speakers (alphabetic order)

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President and CEO of the California Primary Care Association (CPCA), overseeing a membership association of more than 1,100 nonprofit, community clinics and health centers (CCHCs) which serve more than 5.6 million patients a year. Ms. Castellano-Garcia has been committed to advancing multicultural health policy issues for 24 years, focusing on cultural and linguistic competency in health care delivery, ensuring the viability of safety net providers, health care reform, and access to care for vulnerable populations. During her tenure at CPCA, community health centers have had significant income growth, more than tripling their collective income. Patients

served increased 100 percent during this same period from over 2 million to 5.6 million, and total annual encounters grew by more than 8 million. Under her leadership, federal funding to CCHCs has increased 212 percent.

Carmela Castellano-Garcia

A professor at the University of Barcelona, she teaches the Master’s program in “Mental Health and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities.” She is also a Professor for Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists in the Public University of Catalan Health Service. She has a PhD from the University of Valencia in Spain and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Dr. Espeso has been Head of Section at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Child Psychiatrist in the Institute of Healthcare in Girona, Spain; and a child psychiatrist

at Service Psychopathological and Psychosocial Immigrant and Refugees. She is also a member of the Communitarian Program for Immigration and Health in Girona, Réseau Européen, the World Psychiatric Association -Transcultural Section (WPA-TP), and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WCPA).

Dori Espeso Montagud

Regina Day LanghoutRegina Day Langhout is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Oakes College Provost at UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on critical empowerment in educational and neighborhood settings. Her primary research takes place in elementary schools and neighborhoods that serve working class and working poor African American, Latina/o, and white students. For the past 9 years, her primary collaborators have been fourth and fifth grade Latina/o students, mostly from immigrant families. She uses a participatory action research (PAR) paradigm to critically examine schools and neighborhoods. With PAR, stakeholder groups

collaborate to determine problems and interventions. Photovoice is a method of PAR, and she has successfully used it with children and adults. She has published approximately 40 articles and book chapters, several using photovoice as a method. She has discussed photovoice as a keynote speaker at the Mesoamerican and National Conference on Early Childhood Education at the Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador, and given a workshop on PAR (including photovoice) at the Conference for the Progress of Research with Children and Youth in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Speakers (alphabetic order)


Anisha Gandhi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She received her BA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on how structural forces and social environments shape sexual behavior, HIV/STI vulnerability, and key outcomes on the continuum of HIV care. She is particularly interested in exploring these relationships in marginalized and minority populations, both globally and domestically. She has conducted CDC and NIH-funded research in Central America and with Latino communities in the U.S., and has worked within non-academic

institutions including the World Health Organization and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop and evaluate services for persons most vulnerable to and living with HIV.

Anisha Gandhi

Ms. Trish Hernandez is an experienced data analyst who has worked with large and complex state and national level data sets for a number of survey research and program evaluation projects. Currently, she serves as a Data Analyst for the National Agricultural Worker Survey. Her expertise includes quantitative analysis, technical report writing, and instrument development. She has provided technical training and assistance in data management and statistical analysis techniques to a number of individuals and groups, both domestically and internationally. Ms. Hernandez holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from Humboldt State University.

Trish Hernandez

Elizabeth Kennedy is a social scientist who focuses on the experiences and needs of child, youth and forced migrants. From 2013 to 2014, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in El Salvador, in which she and Karla Castillo conducted interviews with over 650 child migrants, 200 adult migrants and numerous government officials, NGOs and researchers throughout the Northern Triangle. She also has over a decade’s experience in youth programming and has consulted for UNHCR and the Open Society Foundation. This year, she has published a series of reports on deportees to the Northern Triangle who were murdered. In previous years, she published articles, briefs and editorials on why Central American children are leaving, their potential unmet mental health needs

in detention, and high rejection rates of Central American asylum claims. She speaks with print, radio and television media outlets regularly about this research and also provides expert testimony in Central American asylum seekers’ cases in Canada, Sweden, the UK and the U.S. She has presented upon invitation to various United States and Salvadoran government agencies.

Elizabeth G. Kennedy

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Alejandra Lizardi-Gómez is a Professor in the Socio-Urban Studies Department of University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She received a Bachelor’s degree on Nursing, and a Social Sciences Doctoral degree at the University of Guadalajara. She has been collaborating with the Mexican Migration Field Research Program of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at University of California San Diego, and with the Transnational Migration Program at California State University, Fullerton.Her research focuses on the illness experience of transnational migrants. She has published on issues such as social support, access to health services and space perception

when living between Mexico and the United States. One of her latest research projects, focus on space representation by chronically ill transnational migrants. She is a current member of the Mexican National Researchers System, administered by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology.

Alejandra Lizardi Gomez

Prior to becoming executive director of The Praxis Project, Dr. Xavier Morales was executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and was in his second year of serving on the Praxis board of directors. He is an advocate for community-driven initiatives to achieve health equity and environmental justice. He diligently works to enable opportunities for youth development, workforce development, college access, prisoner reentry, early childhood development, affordable housing, and expanding access to culturally and linguistically appropriate heath care for all. Xavier currently serves on the boards of The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and the Urban Peace Initiative. He was a member of the Berkeley vs.

Big Soda steering committee that passed the first local tax on sugary drinks in the country to begin to address the diabetes epidemic in vulnerable communities. He has been a leader in the campaign to pass legislation to create a dedicated revenue source to combat diabetes and other preventable chronic diseases at the state level in California. Xavier often provides testimony in the California State Legislature and is a frequent speaker at legislative briefings, health conferences, health justice gatherings, and in college/university settings. Xavier, a former Peace Corps volunteer (Hungary), is originally from Sanger, California and studied environmental sciences at UC Berkeley and city and regional planning at Cornell University.

Xavier Morales

Leith Lombas has over 15 years of experience in social science and nonprofit research, and has expertise in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research, specifically survey design, quantitative data collection, ethnography, qualitative interviewing, and focus group research, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. He also has expertise in developmental, formative, and summative evaluation. He has conducted data collection among the homeless, with indigenous populations in the global South, human rights workers, people living with AIDS, and single parents living in poverty. He served as project coordinator for the evaluation plan review process for CNCS’s Social Innovation Fund, and worked on a

study of motivations for volunteerism among VISTA Alumni. Most recently, he helped to implement a national impact study on education and employment of disconnected youth. In this study, Dr. Lombas implemented the evaluation and provided technical assistance on evaluation procedures and data collection processes for AmeriCorps programs. He has worked extensively in education and employment among people living with AIDS and served as a community health educator with the U.S. Peace Corps. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Leith Lombas


Dr. Jorge Nakamoto has done research and evaluation with farmworkers and farmworker programs for more than 25 years. He is currently employed by JBS International and is best known as the Field Director of the National Agriculture Workers Survey. He has worked with Migrant Health, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, Migrant Education, NIOSH, and EPA. Dr. Nakamoto’s expertise focuses on bilingual English-Spanish evaluation technical assistance, instrument development, and implementation of surveys, interviews, and focus groups. Dr. Nakamoto holds a PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a specialization in Comparative and International Education.

Jorge Nakamoto

Liliana Osorio is the Deputy Director of the Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA), a program of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Since joining HIA in 2002, she has been involved in several projects including the coordination of Binational Health Week, the Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Public Health, and the Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health. She has also managed several projects and campaigns at a state level, such as the “H1N1 Influenza Outreach and Education Campaign to Reach the Hard-to-Reach Latinos in California”, and more recently a state-wide program to educate and refer Latinos to enroll in health insurance through California Covered. Liliana is the editor of four editions of the “English - Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms”. She

has also collaborated in the development of several other publications including educational manuals for community health workers and fact sheets on migrant health issues. Liliana received her Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication and Journalism in Bogota, Colombia and currently is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Health at San Diego State University.

Liliana Osorio

A native of Taranto, Italy, Dr. Mosca specialized in Emergency Surgery at the University of Modena. Initially, he worked for the Italian Technical Cooperation as a surgeon but eventually shifted his focus towards public health. In 1994, he joined the International Organization for Migration, where he designed programs for the reintegration of internally displaced people, mostly refuges and demobilized soldiers. In 1996, he relocated to Angola to aid with post conflict programs of the UNAVEM III Mission. From 1998 to 2008 he worked in Nairobi as Regional Medical Officer for Africa and the Middle East; during this time, he coordinated emergency health programs where he assisted in the medical evacuation of civilians affected by the war in Iraq. In 2008, Dr. Mosca was appointed as the Director of Migration Health Department at IOM, headquartered in Geneva, where he continues providing health to migrants worldwide.

Davide Mosca

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Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Schenker has over 30 years of experience in medicine and public health. He is the founding director of the Davis Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety and the Migration and Health Research Center. He is co-director of the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health of the UC Global Health Institute. His specialty is occupational and environmental disease. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and occupational health. He conducts epidemiologic research and teaches in these areas, with a particular focus on lung disease, reproductive

hazards, and the health of immigrants and farm working populations. Dr. Schenker has published over 150 scientific manuscripts and 5 textbooks. He has conducted work on occupational health hazards in the U.S. and Latin America, and has worked on global health committees and programs with collaborators around the world.

Marc Schenker

Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz Dr. Rodriguez is a Migrant Health Specialist for the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Dr. Rodriguez’s main responsibilities include acting as a liaison, coordinator, planner and project lead for domestic migrant health activities. Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Rodriguez was the senior epidemiologist for the California Office of Binational Border Health, California Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in coordinating cross-border surveillance and public health projects between California, Mexico and Latin America. Dr. Rodriguez has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Davis. He has co-authored many peer-reviewed publications and several

border and migrant health reports. He also teaches courses on migrant health, global surveillance and international epidemiology at SDSU Graduate School of Public Health.

Bogdan RauBogdan is the Online Dissemination Manager for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). He manages the development, implementation and maintenance of multiple public health surveillance tools powered by The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), including AskCHIS, CHIS’ flagship online dissemination product, and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition, a new health query system that provides health information and visualizations for California’s zip codes and cities. Bogdan earned his MPH with a concentration in epidemiology from the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, and his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine.


Rachel Silvey, Associate Professor, Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto works on critical development studies, migration and immigration politics, geographies of gender and inequality with a specialization in Indonesia. She has co-edited special issues of journals, and published over 30 articles and book chapters in the fields of critical development studies, cultural geography, feminist geography, and diaspora/transnational studies. She has also organized and co-directed funded workshops on gender and globalization (funded by the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy), securitization and

migration (Asian Institute), and the organization of intimate labor industries in Asia (SSHRC). Her current work with collaborator Rhacel Parrenas compares Indonesian and Filipono/a

domestic workers’ employment in Singapore and the UAE (NSF), and leads the ‘sending country perspective’ sub-project of Ito Peng’s partnership project, “Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: Comparative Perspectives” (SSHRC). This work has drawn her increasingly into public forums and debates about the global politics of gender, immigration, and human trafficking in Southeast Asia and North America.

Rachel Silvey

Alina Shaw grew up in San Diego with a unique bicultural experience that has shaped her career in migration and health. After completing a degree in Latin American and Hispanic Studies, Alina worked in Medellín, Colombia conducting maternal health research at the Universidad de Antioquia. She returned to Atlanta, GA, where she worked at The Carter Center on health issues from Guinea Worm in Sudan to River Blindness in Guatemala. Alina earned an MPH from Emory University with a specialty in Global Health. As a Program Specialist with CARE, she led maternal and child nutrition activities in Peru and

Nicaragua. Alina now has over three years of experience with CDC’s US-Mexico Unit as a Health Communication Specialist. She coordinates communication on infectious diseases between health agencies in the United States and Mexico, participates in emergency responses such as Ebola and Zika, and collaborates with state and local partners serving binational populations. Alina is passionate about providing Spanish-speaking audiences with relevant, easy-to-understand health information.

Alina Shaw

Dr. Santino Severoni, has held senior positions at the World Health Organization European Office since 2000. In the last 22 years he has been working in several countries in Eastern Africa, Balkans, Central Asia and Europe, dedicating his professional work to public health, health sector reforms, health system strengthening, health diplomacy, aid coordination/effectiveness, management of complex emergencies and coordinating the public health aspect of migration work for the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Santino Severoni

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Dr. Wallace is a professor and chairperson of the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Wallace has studied immigration issues since the mid-1980s. His interest in migration issues now focuses on access to health care and services for the elderly. His work includes studies of Latin American and Asian immigrant elders, as well as analyses of access to health care and preventive services for nonelderly adults. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, 25 book chapters, and dozens

of policy briefs. His current research includes projects to build community-based participatory research skills among environment health science researchers and immigrant communities in Los Angeles, an analysis of the impact of health care reform on undocumented immigrants, and several studies that identify gaps in health policies for underserved elders.

Steven P. Wallace

Dr. Tirado has been working on food, nutrition, climate change and sustainable development with state and federal government agencies. She has served as a food adviser for Latin America WHO (World Health Organization) Regional Food Adviser in Europe, Coordinator of the WHO Surveillance Program and Director of the PHI’s Center for Climate and Health in California. She is also an adviser for several United Nations organizations and lectures at the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability. She focuses on policy analysis and on the co-benefits of climate adaptation and

mitigation. Along with her many other accomplishments she was contributing author of the health chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 4AR and she has authored numerous research and policy publications and books. She is a DVM, with MS/PhD degrees in environmental sciences from Cornell University.

Cristina Tirado-von der Pahlen

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