Building Community with Refugee Populations in Atlanta

This panel presentation situates local community building efforts with refugee populations in Clarkston, Atlanta, within the larger discourse of refugee movement, inclusion and integration. Panelists will draw insights from their engagement with refugee children, youth, and adults through various grassroots activities and professional practice, shedding light on some of the ways in which mutual learning has led to a greater understanding of what it means to be in community for all participants.

  • Development

  • Soroosh Behshad

    Soroosh Behshad, MD, MPH is an Ophthalmologist and Professor at Emory University. He has worked with hospitals and ministries of health to develop national eye care plans in developing countries. His research includes improving access to healthcare and developing projects to address health disparities for under-served populations, both locally and abroad.

  • Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz

    Dr. Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz holds a PhD in Cancer Biology from Emory University and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. Her research focuses on investigating the impact of neighborhood-level structural inequities on the tumor epigenome and as a potential driver of breast cancer outcome disparities. She is interested in conducting research at the intersections of molecular biology, epigenetics, and epidemiology to generate insights that can contribute to understanding the social and molecular underpinnings of health disparities.

  • Shadi Salehian

    Shadi served at Research Department Bahá’í World Center Israel for many years. She holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Her main research and work focus on displaced populations and refugees with access to health as vital component of social integration. She also collaborates with the Global Institute for Health and Human Rights in working with displaced populations in Syria.

  • Lauretta George

    No biography available.

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42nd Annual Conference

1,400

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