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Day-1: Thursday, December 13, 2018

8:00 AM	Registration (School of Health Professions / School of Nursing - SHP/SON Lobby)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Plenary Session (A): Paradox of the Migration-Development Nexus (SHP/SON 1.304) Chair Ben G. Raimer – Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Legislative Affairs (HPLA), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Speakers Human Mobility, Migration and the Current dominant Model of Development Karen Carpio - Regional Office for Central America, North America and the Caribbean, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Structural Factors Driving Migration and What It Means for Migrant Health Michelle Sternthal - Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
10:00 AM	Break (SHP/SON 1.402)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (1): Research: what we know and what we do not? (SHP/SON 1.202) Moderator Cara Pennel - Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB Speakers Risk of Obesity-Related Cardiometabolic Complications in Special Populations: A Crisis in Asians Nicola Abate – Professor and Chair, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, UTMB Risk and protective factors for cognitive impairment and decline for older U.S. Hispanics Brian Downer- Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB Evaluation of abreast cancer screening program in refugee women Sammer Ghannam - Medical student, Baylor College of Medicine
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (2): Implementation: Creating Safer Spaces for Health Care – Lead by Doctors for Cahnge (SHP/SON 1.408) Moderator Sarah Wart - Executive Director, Doctors for Change (DFC) Speakers Video and facilitated discussion All participants
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (3): Policies: Civic Engagement and Public Action (SHP/SON 1.442) Moderator Matthew Dacso – Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Director, Center for Global and Community Health, UTMB Speakers Immediate and latent consequwences of child detention Karla Fredricks – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Program for Immigrant and Refugee Child Health (PIRCH), Section of Global and Immigrant Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital The role of civic engagement: the experince of Living Hope Wheelchair Association Frianciso Arguelles – Executive Director, Living Hope Wheelchair Association
12:00 PM	Lunch (SHP/SON 1.402)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Poster session (SHP/SON Lobby)
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Plenary Session (B): The health of migrants: Determinants, gaps, and solutions (SHP/SON 1.304) Chair Laura Rudkin – Professor and Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB Speakers Screeting for trauma in adolescents Joseph Cohen – Assistant Professor in Clinical/Community Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Healthy Immigrant Effect and Aging in the United States and other Western Countries Kyriakos Markides – Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB What shapes the health of migrants and how to address these determinants? Umair A. Shah - Executive Director, Harris County Public Health
3:00 PM	Break (SHP/SON 1.402)
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Panel Discussion (1) (SHP/SON 1.304) How to close the gap between the health needs of immigrants and policies and practices impacting their access to health care? Which stakeholder groups should be involved -- who should do what? What are the most urgent tasks? Moderator Premal Patel - Associate Director at Center for Global Health Education and Assistant Professor at Department of Internal Medicine, UTMB Special event Radio program by youth of Ball High school at Galveston Panelists Karen Carpio - Regional Office for Central America, North America and the Caribbean, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Umair A. Shah - Executive Director, Harris County Public Health Christine Kovic - Professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, College of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston-Clear Lake
5:00 PM – 5:45 PM	Keynote Presentation (SHP/SON 1.304) Keynote Speech Violence against women: From Nicole Brown Simpson to Malala Yousafzai Jeff Temple - Professor and Psychologist, Director of Behavioral Health and Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UTMB
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM	Reception (SHP/SON Lobby) Host Ben G. Raimer – Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Legislative Affairs (HPLA), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

Day-2: Friday, December 14, 2018

8:00 AM	Registration (SHP/SON Lobby)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Plenary Session (C): Beyond Health Care: What Shapes Migrant Health? (SHP/SON 1.304) Chair Alexandra (Lexi) Bambas Nolen - Senior Executive, Population Health, Health Equity & Health System Innovation Speakers Health of Migrants in the Middle East: Status, Determinants Gloria Paolucci – Hospitalization Consultant on behalf of Akihiro Seita – Director of Health, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Moral Advocacy in Health Care for Refugees and Immigrants Facing Conflict and Genocide Cheyenne Darlene Martin - Distinguished Professor at UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Nursing, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Addressing the the Health and Social Determonats of Health of Migrants in Great Houston Andrea Caracostis - Chief Executive Officer of the Asian American Health Coalition dba HOPE Clinic
10:00 AM	Break (SHP/SON 1.402)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (4): Refugee Health: (SHP/SON 1.202) Moderator Sarah Ward – Executive Director, Doctors for Change Speakers Addressing the health needs of Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East: A Vidio presenation Gloria Paolucci - Hospitalization Consultant on behalf of Akihiro Seita – Director of Health, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) The Health and Determinats of Health of Syrian Refugees Samer Jabbour - Profesor of Public Health, American University in Beirut (AUB), Lebanon Health of Palestinian Refugee School Children Layth Alzubaidi - Medical student, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (5): Documentation and Legal Status (SHP/SON 1.408) Moderator Alexandra (Lexi) Bambas Nolen - Senior Executive, Population Health, Health Equity & Health System Innovation Speakers Health Systems and Health of Migrants: Example of Texas Children’s Hospital Karla Fredricks – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Program for Immigrant and Refugee Child Health (PIRCH), Section of Global and Immigrant Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Professional organiztions and the health of migrants: Doctors for Global Health Shamsher Samra – Doctors for Global Health Addrrssing Social determinants of Health: the need for cross-sectoral action Christine Kovic - Professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies, College of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston-Clear Lake
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Parallel Session (6): Health care (SHP/SON 1.442) Moderator Jerome Crowder - Associate Professor, Institute for the Medical Humanities, UTMB Speakers Addressing the physical and mental consequences of torture: the experience of Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition Léonce Byimana - Executive Director, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition The social responsibility of health systems and community health centers: the experidce of Hope Clinic Kara Green – Clinical Director, Hope Clinic
12:00 PM	Lunch (SHP/SON 1.402)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Poster Session (SHP/SON Lobby)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	Conference Synthesis (SHP/SON 1.304) Chair Shannon Guillot-Wright - Community Health Research Fellow, Center for Global and Community Health, UTMB Moderator Michael Goodman - Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, UTMB Panelists Michelle Sternthal - Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America Sarah Ward – Executive Director, Doctors for Change Hani Serag - Health System Research Fellow, Center for Global and Community Health and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UTMB
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Panel Discussion (2) (SHP/SON 1.304) How to address the gaps that were highlighted in the synthesis (in relation to policies, practices, and structures) What are some opportunities to use to address these gaps What are the challenges and how to overcome them Moderator Hani Serag - Health System Research Fellow, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UTMB Panelists Frianciso Arguelles – Executive Director, Leving Hope Wheelchair Association Michelle Sternthal - Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America Carlos Duarte - Texas State Director, Mi Familia Vota Shamsher Samra – Doctors for Global Health Karen Carpio - Regional Office for Central America, North America and the Caribbean, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Closing Remarks: What is Next? (SHP/SON 1.304) Ben G. Raimer – Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Legislative Affairs (HPLA), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)