Refugee Health Ed Conference - Intro

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• 00:00Welcome everybody to our last event
• 00:02for the 10th Annual Global Health
• 00:04Day in the Department of Medicine.
• 00:06This is our fifth annual conference
• 00:08physical and mental health of refugees,
• 00:10the COVID-19 update.
• 00:12We are very excited to be able to
• 00:15be here with all of you tonight.
• 00:18Just some acknowledgments,
• 00:19we as always we don't have any corporate
• 00:21support for educational activities,
• 00:23and although this event is much
• 00:25lower budget event than in the past
• 00:27this year I did want to make sure
• 00:30that we think are prior sponsors.
• 00:32The Young Macmillan Center
• 00:33Department of Internal Medicine,
• 00:34the Office of Global Health Education,
• 00:36Department of Pediatrics and
• 00:38Department of Psychiatry.
• 00:41As far as our agenda,
• 00:43so we have a lot to pack into
• 00:45our hour and a half tonight.
• 00:48It's our first session will be
• 00:50my probably giving a welcome and
• 00:52state of the Union on the current
• 00:54US refugee program and an animal I
• 00:57director of the of the Yale Adult
• 00:59Refugee program will be talking
• 01:01briefly about some changes to the
• 01:03refugee clinics after that at 6:15.
• 01:05Jennifer Clem is going to give a
• 01:08talk on challenges and adaptations
• 01:10for adult refugee health care
• 01:12during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 01:15She will be followed by Julia
• 01:17Rosenberg and Trisha McDonald
• 01:18Ryan giving a talk on mental and
• 01:20behavioral health for refugee
• 01:22children in the era of COVID-19
• 01:24challenges and community partnerships.
• 01:26And then we'll finish it off
• 01:28with a panel this evening.
• 01:30I will have two speakers on vaccination
• 01:32outreach in the refugee community.
• 01:34We're very excited to have breeder
• 01:36Roy and Jason's Jason Schwartz
• 01:38talking with us this evening.
• 01:40Since we have a packed agenda
• 01:42and things always tend to run
• 01:44a little bit behind schedule,
• 01:46I wanted to do our thank yous up front.
• 01:49So in addition to the folks who are
• 01:51already have already been recognized
• 01:52who are speaking this evening,
• 01:54we also wanted to thank Doctor
• 01:56Animal I'm director of the Yale
• 01:58Adult Refugee Health Clinic.
• 01:59Camille Brown,
• 02:00director of the Yale Pediatric
• 02:02Refugee Health clinic.
• 02:03Chris Gardner in the Department
• 02:04of Psychiatry who had put together
• 02:06our website and then Brian Brown,
• 02:08Anna Meiler O'Neill, who are two fellows.
• 02:11In the Department of Internal
• 02:12Medicine who work in the adult
• 02:15refugee Clinic and as always,
• 02:16we want to thank the adult and pediatric
• 02:19refugee clinic patients and staff.
• 02:21Without them we wouldn't be here.