Oral Presentations: June 5

Advocacy

258
Working Together! How an Interdisciplinary Group of Service Providers Tackled Systems Level Problems
Genji Terasaki, Beth Farmer (bfarmer@lcsnw.org), Jasmine Matheson, Annette Holland, Jonathan Carey Jackson

303
Bridging the gap between Government Assisted Refugees and the Healthcare System in London, ON: Moving beyond Referral.
Sherin Hussien, Bhooma Bhayana, Joanne Veldhorst, Jan Jasnos, Suresh Shrestha, Amal Mahmoud, Sali Khalaf, Mohamed El Khatib

297
Empowering and Self-Sustaining Community Based Model to Help Newly-Arrived Bhutanese Refugees
Sherin Hussien, Jan Jasnos, Esra Ari, Gaurab Tewar, Yasika Jarquin, Lynne Collins

316
Refugees and the Affordable Care Act: Promise and Challenges
Malea Hoepf Young

Global Refugee Health and Migration Settlement

260
Socio-cultural influences on psychosocial stressors and supports: A case study of urban Congolese refugees in Kenya
Julie A. Tippens

184
Frameworks for Understanding and Communicating about Health across Cultural Boundaries
Judith A. Colbert

173
Mercy for Money–Torture for Profit in Sri Lanka
Wendell Block, Jessica Lee

Mental Health / Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

56
Epidemiology of Mental Health and Suicide among Bhutanese Refugees in Ohio
Surendra Bir Adhikari, Jhuma Nath Acharya, Jaclyn Kirsch

61
“Integrated Behavior Health Care for Karen Refugees: A Qualitative Inquiry”
Jennifer Jean Esala, Alison Beckman

183
Mixed methods study of a manualized Mind Body Skills group with Nepali Male Survivors of Torture
Susan Heffner Rhema

Pediatrics

66
Refugee Community Perspectives: Informing Pediatric Standardized Developmental Screening
Abigail LH Kroening, Jessica Moore, Therese R Welch, Jill S Halterman, Susan L Hyman, Jennifer Pincus

201
Risk factors for preterm birth: refugee status and secondary migration
Susitha Wanigaratne, Marcelo Urquia, Donald C Cole, Kate Bassil, Ilene Hyman, Rahim Moineddin

Research

220
Role of Refugee Resettlement Caseworkers in Maximizing Refugee Economic Self-sufficiency Outcomes
Pranaya SJB Rana

237
Aku Anyi Swastha (Help For Help) Initiative for Healthy Burmese and Bhutanese Refugee Communities
Michelle Villegas-Gold, Jeanne Nizigiyimana

245
Health Status of North Korean Refugees in Toronto: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study
Katie Dorman, Nikki Bozinoff, Vanessa Redditt, Enoch, Jiyeon Shin, Rick Glazier, Meb Rashid

152
Quality of life among immigrants in Swedish immigration detention centres: a cross-sectional questionnaire study
Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Magdalena Bjerneld, Beth Maina Ahlberg, Carina Källestål

Screening of Refugees

276
Follow-up for Behavioral Health after the Refugee Health Screener-15 in Massachusetts
Holly Randall, Jennifer Cochran, Jennifer Bradford, Paul Geltman

284
MUN MED Gateway: Bridging Medical Education, Refugee Health Care and Social Accountability
Pauline Duke, Kate Duff

219
Presumptive Overseas Antihelminthic Treatment and the Prevalence of Pathogenic Intestinal Parasites in Newly Arrived Refugees, Minnesota, 2010-2013
Guillaume Onyeaghala, Kailey Nelson, Blain Mamo, Ann Linde

91
Facilitating integration of refugees with specific health needs
Alexander Klosovsky

Women’s Health

114
Refugee women’s experiences with sexual violence and their post-migration needs in Canada
Jessica Silva, Angel M. Foster

120
Responding Dynamically to HIV Positive Pregnant Refugees: Clinical and Programme Responses to Trauma Awareness and the Social Determinants of Health in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health. The Continuing Evolution of Toronto’s Positive Pregnancy Programme (P3).
S. Jay MacGillivray, Mark Yudin

165
Rethinking Informed Consent in Women’s Health Services in Light of Relational Autonomy
Christopher McDowell, Harriet McDowell

185
Midwife Mondays – An Innovative Partnership between Community Health Centers and Midwives for Medically Uninsured Refugee and Immigrant Pregnant Women
Monika Dalmacio, Ashley Raeside, Manavi Handa, Yogendra Shakya, Rachel Spitzer