Moving Global Health Forward
media release: With immigration taking center stage in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars are some of the nation's leading experts on the health risks facing migrants in the Americas.
UW–Madison professors, Sara McKinnon (Communication Arts), Erin Barbato (Law), and Jorge Osorio (Pathobiological Sciences), are leading a multidisciplinary research project aimed at understanding the risks that face people as they move through fieldwork with migrants, legal clinics, and humanitarian organizations in migration hot spots like the Darién Gap of Colombia and Panama and the northern parts of Mexico. Their policy and research collective also focuses on assessing migration policy, gathering and evaluating health data to understand the flow and emergence of infectious diseases, and developing ways to reduce risk and harm to make movement and residence safer for migrants throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The team's goal is to develop interventions to help migrants make informed decisions about the journey based on their health, identities and the likelihood of receiving asylum or other immigration benefits in the U.S. and other countries in the Americas. These could include health screenings and checkups, legal consultations and targeted communication campaigns.
All three researchers will be participating in the UW–Madison Global Health Institute's 2024 Global Health Symposium on April 10, with McKinnon and Barbato giving the symposium's keynote talk at 6:25 p.m. about their project, Migration in the Americas. More information about the symposium, including a full roster of speakers, is available here: https://ghi.wisc.edu/2024-
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