DGHI Lecture on Refugees and Rehabilitation: Our Fight Against the "Globalization of Indifference"

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), over 70 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced in 2019. These figures represent the highest estimates of absolute, and per capita, population displacement numbers ever recorded. Once a refugee and their family arrive in a host country, many have already been exposed to years of forced displacement, prolonged periods of unmet basic needs, exposure to physical trauma, alongside exposure to infectious and other diseases. Learn about specific and unique competencies necessary for health and rehabilitation providers to be client-centered, effective and efficient in providing quality care to refugee populations in high-income settings on on Tuesday, February 11, in Trent Hall room 040 from 12 to 1 p.m. Michel D. Landry, PhD, will present preliminary data from a large multi-country ERASMUS+ grant. Lunch will be provided. This event is part of Think Global, a weekly lecture series at the Duke Global Health Institute. It is free and open to the public. Read more