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9/12 InCHIP Lecture Series: Health Care Access for Immigrant Populations

InCHIP Lecture Series: Health Care Access for Immigrant Populations

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Virtual

Heide Castañeda, Ph.D., University of South Florida

Topic: Health Care Access for Immigrant Populations

September 12, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx

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Heide Castañeda is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include critical border studies, political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, migration, migrant health, citizenship, focusing on the U.S./Mexico border, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco.
She is the author of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (NYU Press, 2018). Her latest book is Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2023).
Dr. Castañeda has also published dozens of research articles on migration and health care access for immigrant populations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

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10/10 InCHIP Lecture Series: Effects of Multiple Minority Identities on Emotion Regulation, Mental Health Outcomes, and Access to Care

InCHIP Lecture Series: Effects of Multiple Minority Identities on Emotion Regulation, Mental Health Outcomes, and Access to Care

Thursday, October 10th, 2024

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Virtual

In Recognition of World Mental Health Month
Shalini Sivathasan, Ph.D., Boston College
Topic: Effects of Multiple Minority Identities on Emotion Regulation, Mental Health Outcomes, and Access to Care
October 10, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx
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Dr. Shalini Sivathasan (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department at Boston College. She completed her Ph.D. in School/Applied Child Psychology at McGill University in Canada and an APA-accredited clinical internship in Health Service Psychology (Pediatrics) at the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Sivathasan is trained as a child psychologist, having specialized in psychodiagnostic, psychoeducational, and early autism assessment, as well as in cognitive-behavioral interventions for diverse child and adolescent populations. She then gained additional training in mental health and suicide risk assessments among autistic adults through a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.

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11/14 InCHIP Lecture Series: The Impact of Neocolonialism on Global, Maternal, and Child Health

InCHIP Lecture Series: The Impact of Neocolonialism on Global, Maternal, and Child Health

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Virtual

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., Yale School of Public Health

Topic: The Impact of Neocolonialism on Global, Maternal, and Child Health

November 14, 2024 | 12:30 PM | WebEx
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Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Office of Public Health Practice, the Global Health Concentration, and the Maternal Child Health Promotion track at the Yale School of Public Health. He is the PI of the Yale-Griffin CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC). His global public health nutrition and food security research program, supported with over $90 million in extramural funds, has contributed to improvements in breastfeeding and other maternal, infant and young child nutrition outcomes, iron deficiency anemia among infants, household food security, and early childhood development. He has co-led innovative mixed-methods implementation studies assessing the impact of community health worker person centered interventions on breastfeeding, type-2 diabetes, post-partum hypertension and mental health outcomes among vulnerable communities. He has published over 350 research articles. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (elected in 2019).

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