Child Refugee and Migrant Health (eBook)

Dr Christian Harkensee, PhD, MSc, DLSHTM, DiMM, FRCPCH

Karen Olness MD is board certified in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Professor Emerita of Pediatrics, Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Ohio.   She has been a field worker, helping children in humanitarian emergencies in many countries. In 1996 she initiated programs at CWRU to train relief workers about the special needs of children in disasters.  These workshops have been replicated in many resource poor settings.  She is past chair of the Global Child Health Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Technical Advisory Group on Children in Humanitarian Emergencies of the IPA.  She is past President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  She has more than 150 publications and has received many awards from universities and professional organizations. 

Emily Esmaili DO MA FAAP, is a pediatrician with global health experience both locally and internationally. After residency at Wake Forest Medical Center, she worked in Laos for two years as country coordinator and pediatric faculty for the NGO Health Frontiers. She then moved to Rwanda to serve as visiting pediatric faculty through Yale University and the Human Resources for Health program. While there, she helped start a 'farm-to-bedside' nutrition program for food-insecure hospitalized children, which she later established as a 501c3, Growing Health, Inc. She then returned to the US to earn her masters in Global Bioethics and Science Policy from Duke University, followed by a fellowship in refugee child health also from Duke. Dr. Esmaili now works for Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, which serves primarily low-income, immigrant and refugee children in the local community, where she also leads a grant-funded outreach program for refugee and immigrant families post-COVID. She has volunteered with humanitarian organizations in Greece, India, Nepal, Rwanda, and along the Thai-Burma border.