Immigrant Health & Climate Change: Caring for Displaced Children and Families
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
In this chapter chat, co-hosted by the Immigrant Health Committee and Climate Change & Child Health Committee, pediatricians will learn about the connections between environmental health and immigrant health. We will discuss and provide resources for pediatricians to address the joint impacts of immigration, displacement and climate change on the health of our patients.
Online: Zoom link (Zoom Meeting ID Details are in the Calendar invite)
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Meet the Speakers!
Dr. Shazeen Suleman, MD, MPH
Dr. Shazeen is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at Stanford University, where she is also the Co-Director of Community Engagement with the Office of Child Health Equity. She obtained her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and completed her residency at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Following this, she completed an MPH at Johns Hopkins University as a Sommer Scholar. She is an Affiliate Scientist with the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at Unity Health Toronto at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Stanford, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and the founder of the Compass Clinic, which provides low-barrier, trauma-informed and culturally-safe care to refugee and immigrant children with special healthcare needs. She is the Chair of the Newcomer Child Health Special Interest Group and a member of the Caring for Kids New to Canada Taskforce with the Canadian Pediatric Society. Her research is community-based, focused on co-designing and testing interventions with migrant families. Most recently, she was awarded a New investigator Grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to co-design a prospective cohort study to follow growth and nutrition outcomes with migrant families.
Dr. Sonja Swenson, MD
Dr. Sonja Swenson is an Assistant Professor of General Pediatrics at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In her clinical practice, she cares for infants in the newborn nursery and sees children of all ages at UCSF Primary Care clinic at China Basin. She earned her medical degree at UCSF, and completed her residency in Pediatrics at UCSF. She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the Climate Change and Child Health Committee, inspired by the role pediatricians can play as climate advocates. She has worked with the California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to create materials for parents and families to protect their children from summer heat. She has been a contributing author on Climate Resilient California Schools: A Call to Action, a state policy roadmap to guide California public schools in becoming more sustainable and better prepared to address climate change’s impact on students’ health and education. She’s also been an invited speaker on the podcast Kids Considered, for a series on “Climate Change & Pediatric Health”.