Location:
LG03 Lecture Room (Lower Ground), Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW Australia
Open to
All
Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph, +61 (0)2 9385 0900 or rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Booking
https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/content/rsvp-unsw-grand-challenge-refugees-and-migrants
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
UNSW Grand Challenge on Refugees and Migrants: Health Needs of Refugees and Migrants.
Presenters:
- Dr Stewart Condon: Refugees and forcibly displaced people - the global situation.
- Associate Professor Mitchell Smith: Current research, gaps and priorities.
- Associate Professor Karen Zwi: Social and emotional wellbeing of refugee children.
- Madeline Gleeson: Refugee and migration law and policy in Australia.
Lunch will be served from 12.30 on lower ground floor. Please RSVP before COB Wednesday 7th December 2016 for catering purposes and registration.
Dr Stewart Condon (President MSF Australia) was elected to the Board in May 2011, and was elected President in June 2014. Dr Condon is a medical generalist with a diploma in paediatrics. He has worked in emergency departments around NSW and Queensland, as a rural medical practitioner in indigenous communities of Central Australia and also has experience working in Sydney prisons. Dr Condon has had various field placements with Médecins Sans Frontières since 2004 in Sudan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as medical doctor, field coordinator and country medical coordinator. He currently works in emergency departments as a senior non-specialist, and continues to support the Central Australian Remote Health team with on-call work.
Associate Professor Mitchell Smith is a public health physician who has been involved in the health care of refugees for 25 years, both overseas (Pakistan and Hong Kong) and in Australia. Since 1999 he has been Director of the NSW Refugee Health Service, a state government-funded unit which undertakes health assessments, health education, teaching and research regarding people from refugee backgrounds living in NSW. He has conjoint appointments at UNSW Australia and The University of Sydney. Dr Smith provides advice on refugee health policy at local, state and national levels. He is a member of the NSW TB Advisory Committee, and spent two years on the Blood-Borne Viruses Advisory Panel to NSW Health.
Associate Professor Karen Zwi is a Consultant Community Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital (SCH), the Head of the Department of Community Child Health, and a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia. She is a Clinical Director at the Community Ambulatory Rehabilitation Population Health and Allied Health Directorate. She has been involved in service development for refugee and Aboriginal children in South Eastern Sydney and the Illawarra, and has recently completed a study of the well being of refugee children over the first 2 - 3 years of settlement in Australia.
Madeline Gleeson is a lawyer and Research Associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Australia. She specialises in international human rights and refugee law, with a focus on the law of state responsibility, extraterritorial human rights obligations, offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island, and the protection of children. Madeline has extensive experience with forcibly displaced people around the world, including her work on statelessness, refugees, human trafficking, labour migration and land grabbing with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Cambodia, and with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) in Geneva. She also has human rights and refugee experience in South Africa and Indonesia, and previously practiced as a solicitor in Australia.