Episode Details

CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series

Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations

Show Notes by Kiersten T. “Gillette” Gillette-Pierce

May 2, 2023

Summary: This episode highlights the psychosocial and cultural considerations for providing healthcare to immigrant and refugee populations. During this episode, we hear from Dr. Altaf Saadi, a neurologist who focuses on neuropsychiatric health disparities and addressing the needs of displaced populations at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Naweed Hayat, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of California San Diego, who applies his own lived experience of resettlement to his clinical practice. Together, our guests explain how trauma shows up in those who experience resettlement, and the role of trauma-informed and culturally-responsive care for refugee, asylee, and immigrant population in clinical practice.. This discussion is hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Ashley Cooper, and LaShyra Nolen. 

Episode Learning Objectives

After listening to this episode, learners will be able to…

1. Explain how the current state at the border is informed by historical immigration injustices.
2. Describe how physiological and psychological trauma show up among immigrant and refugee populations as a result of the violence and injustices experienced during migration, at the border, during the resettlement  process and across the lifecourse thereafter. 
3. Identify the role of trauma-informed, culturally-responsive care for refugee, asylee, and immigrant populations and how it can be operationalized in clinical practice.

Credits

• Written and produced by: Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Ashley Cooper, LaShyra Nolen, Kiersten Gillette-Pierce, Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH,  Dereck Paul, MD, Jazzmin Williams, Victor A. Lopez-Carmen MPH, Naomi F. Fields, Jennifer Tsai MD, MEd, Chioma Onuoha, Ayana Watkins, Michelle Ogunwole MD, Utibe R. E