Refugee Health and Well-being in Buffalo
Courtesy of Jewish Family Services of Buffalo and Erie County
From 2003 to 2014, Erie County's four resettlement agencies resettled 9,723 refugees from Iraq, Somalia, Burma, Bhutan, and now Syria. Refugees receive resettlement support for three months time but post-resettlement face barriers to good health and well-being due to limited english proficiency coupled with a scarcity of interpreters and translators, mental health issues related to trauma and torture, lack of transportation, and a derth of culturally-engaged health professionals, pharmacists, and emergency care providers.
Our Working Solutions
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Our Team
Faculty Fellows
Associate Professor and Chair, History; Associate Professor, Medicine
Department of History
Assistant Professor
Division of Health Services Policy and Practice, Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Alex Judelsohn
Research Associate
Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab
Email: ajudelso@buffalo.edu
Student Associates
Nicole Little
Graduate Student; Graduate Assistant
Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning and Community for Global Health Equity
Biplab Bhattacharya
PhD Candidate; Graduate Assistant
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Community for Global Health Equity
Email: biplabsu@buffalo.edu
Danielle Vasquez
Graduate Student
Management and Public Health and Health Professions
