March 17th - April 13, 2019
Globally, there are an estimated 258 million international migrants, and 763 million internal migrants. In the past decade, an estimated 65 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes, with developing countries hosting 86% of those forced displaced population. This rapid increase of population movement has important public health implications, and therefore requires an adequate response from the health sector. Unfortunately, refugees and migrants often lack access to health services and financial protection for health.
The course Refugee and Migrant Health: A Global Perspective will be presented over a 4 week period. Participants can expect recorded presentations, live and interactive seminars and reading resources as the course content with discussions boards, case studies and seminar presentations for the assessment.
The course will include live and recorded interviews and QA sessions with various perspectives from the refugee community.
Agot Aleer was born in South Sudan, and grew up in many different refugee camps. When Agot was a teenager, she got the opportunity to be resettled in the U.S. through a refugee program. Agot is now a medical student at SGU and looking forward to sharing her experiences as a young refugee.
Pierre has 11 years of senior-level leadership and field management experience in international relief and development programs in places like Lebanon, Yemen, Chad, Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar. Such experience has involved the management of protection, water/sanitation, shelter, education, food security and livelihoods activities for refugees and host communities affected by various crises.
Janet has worked as a Case Aide for the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI). She has managed the cases of hundreds of refugees who have resettled in North Carolina. She works largely with Swahili speaking refugees for cultural orientation, job interviews and orientations, financial classes,social services,doctor's appointments, etc, in order to lay the foundation for a stable life in a new country.
Ahmad Firas Khalid is a medical doctor, lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, and a PhD candidate in the Health Policy PhD program at McMaster University. Previously, Firas worked as a health policy researcher at the Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Geneva, Switzerland. Firas is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar in Strengthening Health and Social Systems and traveled to Beirut (Lebanon) to work on research that examines Lebanon’s health-system response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Firas attended St. George’s University School of Medicine in 2005 where he graduated MD with Research Distinction. Website
| Length: | 4 weeks |
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| Effort: | 2-3 hours per week |
| Start Date: | March 17, 2019 |
| End Date: | April 13, 2019 (Course will remain open and become on-demand after end date) |
| Price: | FREEAdd 8 continuing education (NBPHE) credits for $50 |
The course and all the content is absolutely free. Only those students who choose to take the exam for continuing education credit will be required to pay a fee.
Join a global community to explore current topics in refugee and migrant health and interact with leading authorities. Throughout the live interviews, Q&A sessions, lectures, forums and innovative assessments will ensure competency attainment towards a pleasant and productive course experience.
All required course material will be made available on SGU Online. You will be asked to download a small, free application called ZOOM to join the video seminar.
To receive a certificate and credit, you must enroll in the course and achieve a passing score (70%). You achieve a passing score by completing course activities including watching the live or recorded seminars, participating in course discussions, and completing the monthly quizzes.
If you have any questions about the series, please contact us directly, and we will respond via e-mail.
