Oral Presentations | Session 1

Chronic Diseases

• Did the prevalence of chronic diseases among US-bound refugees from Burma increase during 2007 to 2016?
  Barbara Bardenheie, Christina Phares, Diane Simpson, Edward Gregg, Pyone Cho, Stephen Benoit, Nina Marano
• Resettlement of people living with disabilities from refugee backgrounds in Australia: a needs analysis
  Philippa Duell-Piening, Assunta Hunter, Samantha Furneaux
• Psychological distress and disability among persons aged 60 years and older in government and non-government controlled conflict-affected areas in Ukraine
  Aimee Summers, Eva Leidman, Oleg Bilukha
• Mental illness and its association with Hypertension among recently arrived Refugees and Refugee Claimants to Canada
  Eric Norrie

Syrian/Mental Health

• Supports for Syrian Refugee Families Living in Lebanon: Strengths and Gaps
  Bree Akesson, Dena Badawi
• Medical and Mental Health Issues in Syrian Refugees
  Charles Hui, Kevin Pottie, Tobey Audcent, Tony Barozzino, Meb Rashid, Anna Banerji, Morton Beiser, Louise Auger, Anne Rowan-Legg, Charlotte Hepburn-Moore
• Exploring the health and mental health needs and service use of Syrian refugees in Toronto
  Andrew Tuck, Anna Oda, Branka Agic, Brenda Roche, Michaela Hynie, Kwame McKenzie
• A qualitative investigation of the mental health needs of Syrian refugees and immigrants
  Kwame McKenzie, Michaela Hynie, Branca Agic, Sean Kidd, Rosemary Yachouh

Education/Communication

• Young Australian’s Education and Employment transitions: Comparing immigrants from refugee source countries to their Australian peers
  Alison Childs
• Influence of Income and Education on Health Outcomes of Bosnian Refugees in the United States
  Tanja Zanin, Pooja Agrawal, Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic
• Beyond Borders: Using Communication to Change Lives
  Katherine Hansen
• Strategy for Improving Refugee Care Services – Use of Contract Interpreters
  Abby Davids, Margaret Mortimer, Jamie Strain, Jill Chrisman, Jeanne d’Ar Muhire

Research/Screening

• Reflexivity, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Researcher-Practitioner Identities in Research with Refugees
  Jessica E. Lee
• Center of Excellence in Refugee Health: Lessons Learned in Colorado – Year One
  Carol Tumaylle, Paul Gillenwater, Emily Jentes, Lori Kennedy, Deborah Aragon, Breanna Kawaski,
• Findings From A Multisite Post-arrival Refugee Health Screening Exam Surveillance Pilot
  Clelia Pezzi, Deborah Lee, Emily Jentes
• A Refugee Clinic in a Community Health Center; a Sequel to the Public Health Screening Visit
  Shoshana Aleinikoff

Community

• FGC Community-Centered Health Care and Prevention Program
  Bethlehem Degu, Kristin Brownell
• Beyond Navigation: Improving health seeking experiences of newcomer women in British Columbia (BC), Canada
  Caitlin Johnston, Ann Pederson, Andrea Bever
• Evaluation of the Saskatoon Syrian Refugee Pilot Health Clinic
  James Dixon, Yvonne Blonde, Sunny Lee, Mahli Brindamour, Tina Abellera, Melanie Baerg, Karrie Hammond-Collins, Simon Kapaj, Grace Varga, Lori Verity-Anderson, Anne Leis
• Responding to the Syrian Refugee Influx: Collaboration with a Medical Centre, Reception Centre and Community Agencies
  Neil Arya, Wende Bedirian, and Lynne Griffiths

Advocacy

• (Non)Citizenship and the IFHP: Power and Resistance in Toronto’s Healthcare Sector
  Laura Connoy
• (D)Evaluation of Refugees in Germany: Prevalence and Predictors of Anti-Refugee, Xenophobic, and Islamophobic Attitudes
  Constantin Klein, Heinz Streib
• Politicizing the White Coat: Medical Activism and Refugee Health Policy in Toronto, Berlin and London
  Samantha Jackson
• Discrimination and health for asylum seekers and refugees resettled in South Australia
  Anna Ziersch, Clemence Due, Moira Walsh

Innovation and Interprofessional Care

• Telemedicine: Bridging the gap between refugee health and health services accessibility in Hamilton, Ontario
  Anthony Sandre, K. Bruce Newbold
• The Inter-Professional, Collaborative Practice Approach to Refugee Health Care in Winnipeg Manitoba.
  Kimberley Hiebert, Traicy Roberston, Alfred Koineh Felicien Rubayita
• Embedding occupational therapy intervention within an existing refugee health program
  Stephen Kern, Jessica Nambudiri
• Healthy Partnerships for Healthy Smiles
  Lyne Lafrance

Novel Therapies and Treatments

• ‘I am not deaf’: Arts-based participatory action research with refugee women from Burma
  Hillary Rubesin
• Yoga for Refugees: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
  Danielle Begg, Helen Bibby, Tonet Ortega, David Perez, Kedar Maharjan, Mariano Coello
• Beyond Words — Using Creative Arts Therapies with Refugees: Programs, Methods and Effectiveness, with a focus on Syrian Refugees
  Maya Ross, Julia Puebla Fortier
• A Photographic Inquiry into What Sustains Care Providers Working in Contexts of Displacement
  Nisha Sajnani, Oscar Palacio

Workshops | Session 1

• Advocating for Refugees, Refugee Claimants & Undocumented
  Lee Chapman
• Refugee Dental and Oral Health Services: Toronto Public Health
  Dr Michele Wong
• Rights to health coverage for children of vulnerable migrants: shifting from case by case negotiations to systemic change
  Chloé Cérbon, Marianne Leaune-Welt
• The Case Against Torture Wendell Block, Jessica O. Lee
• Resilience in Asylum, Immigrant, and Refugee Medicine: Self-Care and Support to Promote Long-Term Involvement and Well-Being of Clinicians
  Katherine Mckenzie, Katalin Roth, Sarah Kimball, Dennis Wang
• The Immigration Medical Exam: A Myth-buster Workshop
  Della Faulkner
• OHIP for All: Fighting for Access to Care for All Residents of Ontario
  Ritika Goel, Andrea Bobadilla, Anjara Aery, Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy
• Multi-Method Research on Refugee Health from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Approach of the German Study FlueGe. Quantitative and Qualitative Strategies
  Anne Köhne, Matthias Belau, Constantin Klein, Eva Koch, Anna Nowak, and Alexander Krämer
• Effectiveness of Cross-Sector Service Response to Syrian Refugees: Strategies and Best Practices from Toronto, Peel and Kitchener-Waterloo Regions
  Fatima Mussa, Sideeka Narayan, Yogendra Shakya, Nadia Jamil, Tarek Kadan, Iman Malandi, Elise Yoon, Shirin Dorafshar, Maisah Syed

Workshops | Session 2

• Flushing out the Screening of Enteric Parasites in Refugee Populations
  Meb Rashid, Isacc Bogoch, Vanessa Redditt
• Medical Screening Data Exchange, Integration, and Visualization
  Paul Gillenwater, Deborah Aragon, Emily Jentes, Breanna Kawasaki, Lori kennedy, Carol Tumaylle
• Best practices for providers working with interpreters – and why it’s important
  Sarah Clarke, Janice Jaffe, Raewyn Mutch
• Supporting Syrian Refugees through a Rapid Primary Health Care Response- A collaborative reflection from three Community Health Centres in Ontario
  Kim Cook, Siffan Rahman, Sideeka Narayan
• Building capacity to care for refugees: Nuts and Bolts of setting up refugee health care services in your clinical site
  Olga Valdman
• Engaging Partnerships: Overseas and domestic systems collaborating to receive refugees with significant health needs
  Susan Dicker, Ellen Frerich, Marge Higgins, Alexander Klosovsky, Blain Mamo, Catherine Yen
• Ethical Considerations for Research with Refugees
  Michaela Hynie, Christina Clark-Kazak
• Hot Topics in Refugee Women’s Health: Key Priorities: An Introductory Session
  Praseedha Janakiram, Roseanne Hickey