Alumni Meet 'n Greet - Locked Down, Locked Out, Left Behind: The Neglect of Health Services on Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Migration

Activity Type: 
Information Session
Date: 
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 12:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Virtual - Register Online!

Journalist Eric Reidy and Anthropology PhD Candidate Darius Bittle-Dockery will share insights and engage students and alumni in an informal discussion about the health, economic, and social toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and access to chronic health care on displaced people around the world. Eric Reidy is Migration Editor-at-large for the online news website The New Humanitarian, and Darius Bittle-Dockery is a Medical Anthropology PhD candidate at Pitt who has conducted extensive research on refugee health in Jordan. The discussion will be moderated by GSC's own Elaine Linn and Bethany Flage, PhD candidate in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the Graduate School of Public Health and current president of the Global Health Student Association.

UCIS Unit: 
Global Studies Center
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No