Join us on Thursday 14th December for our monthly Global Health Forum with a focus this month on ‘Migrant health’.
IGHI’s monthly Global Health Forum provides a platform to bring together Imperial researchers, students, and staff from across all of Imperial’s Faculties to highlight, discuss and disseminate findings on current research and innovations on relevant global health topics. The Forums encourage interdisciplinary discussions with the intention that they will foster inter-Faculty research initiatives and leverage the immense strengths of Imperial College to resolve global health priorities of the early 21st Century.
Migrant healthcare
The World Health Organization estimates that globally there are 250 million international migrants and 65 million of the world’s internal and international migrants are forcibly displaced today. Population movement can have a significant impact on the health. Migrant and refugee populations are frequently exposed to problems such as accidental injuries, hypothermia, burns, gastrointestinal illnesses, cardiovascular events, pregnancy- and delivery-related complications, diabetes and hypertension.
Migrants also have an increased vulnerability to non-communicable diseases and are impacted by the lack of access to universal health coverage which means expensive costs can prevent them from seeking help.
Our Forum will take a look at the various issues concerning migrant healthcare:
Speakers include:
- Professor Stephen Matlin, Visiting Professor, IGHI, Former Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research – ‘The Health of Migrants and Refugees’
- Dr Mohammed Jawad, Research Postgraduate, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health – ‘Refugee health in the Middle East’
- Dr Sally Hargreaves, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine – ‘Migration and barriers to care across Europe’
- Professor Jonathan Friedland, Chair in Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine – ‘Migration, tuberculosis and drug resistance’
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