Addressing the Public Health Crisis at Border Detention Centers
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 2020-06-16

In the last few years, the process through which refugees from other countries seek to gain asylum in the U.S. has been characterized by family separation, extended detentions, forced medication of children, and reports of dangerous conditions. 

On May 8, the Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium gathered speakers to discus the role of physicians and other health care providers in these environments, and the ethical and clinical dilemmas they face? What are the ways out of this crisis?

Speakers:
Katherine McKenzie, MD, FACP 
Faculty Member, Director 
Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, Yale University

Katherine Peeler, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Physician, Boston Children's Hospital
Medical Director, Asylum Clinic, and Faculty,
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

George Annas, JD, MPH 
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Health Law, Bioethics, & Human Rights
Boston University School of Public Health

J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD
Cofounder, Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, Cambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School