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Providing Health Care to Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Populations | June 17-19, 2026

This course is back in 2026!     

COURSE FORMAT

Hybrid. The course will be hybrid and live to both the in-person and online participants approximately from 8:00am-4:30pm (Montreal time) each day June 17-19, 2026. Live content will be recorded and accessible to participants until July 1, 2026. The primary teaching language of the course will be English.

DESCRIPTION

This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the approach and management of priority health care issues faced by refugee, immigrant and migrant populations. It will cover the clinical issues and public health implications of key infectious and non-communicable diseases among these populations as well as the barriers and facilitators of accessing care. The importance of implementing culturally adapted care and insights and tools from programs in different regions that have successfully used this approach will be presented.

COURSE DIRECTORS

Christina Greenaway, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Division of Infectious Diseases and Center for Clinical Epidemiology, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical and Geographic Medicine

Lavanya Narasiah, MD, MSc, CCFP

Medical Director - Refugee Health Clinic – Montérégie
Medical Advisor - Tuberculosis; Immigrant and Racialized Population Health - Montreal Public Health
Clinical teaching professor – Faculty of Family Medicine, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and Sherbrooke University

Sapha Barkati, MD, MSc, FRCPC, DTM&H, CTropMed

Associate Professor, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine & Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Health Centre
Associate director-Education, J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical and Geographic Medicine

COURSE FACULTY

• Barkati Sapha, MD, JD MacLean Center for Tropical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Health Centre
• Bui Yen, MD Department of Public Health of the Montérégie, Québec
• Coakley Annalee, MD Co-Director, Migration and Humanitarian Health Collective, O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary
• Fabreau Gabriel, MD  Co-Director, Migration and Humanitarian Health Collective, O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary
• Vaugon Esther, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal
• Khenoussi Dahlia, RN  Tuberculosis Clinic Nurse, Jewish General Hospital
• Greenaway Christina, MD  Division of Infectious Diseases, Jewish General Hospital, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Jeeroburkhan Anissa, RN  The Refugee Centre, Montréal
• Kong Ling, MD  Division of Infectious Diseases, Jewish General Hospital; JD MacLean Center for Tropical Medicine
• Kronfli Nadine, MD  Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Kronik Rachel, MD Psychiatrist, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Li Patricia, MD Division of Pediatrics, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Health Centre, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Morgan Jelissa Assistant Director, Health Operations Division, Migration Health Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
• Narasiah Lavanya, MD  Medical Director, Refugee Health Clinic, Montérégie Public Health, Montréal
• Orcutt Miriam  Senior Advisor, The Global Health Network, University of Oxford; University College London Global Business School for Health
• Ordonez Ana Maria, RN Clinique Migrants, Médecins du Monde
• Palayew Mark, MD Division of Respirology, Jewish General Hospital, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Rashid Meb, MD  Medical Director, Crossroads Clinic, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto
• Rousseau Helen, MD  Goldman Herzl Family Medicine Obstetrics Group, Jewish General Hospital; La Maison Bleue
• Stauffer Bill, MD  Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Theberge Alexis Jobin PRAIDA (Programme régional d’accueil et d’intégration des demandeurs d’asile)
• Ward Brian, MD Senior Scientist, Research Institute, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Health Centre
• Zaharatos Gerasimos, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, Jewish General Hospital, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ

CONTENT

Global Migration is increasing, and providing culturally adapted health care is a challenge facing clinicians, public health and policy makers on all continents. This course will provide an overview of the important health conditions to consider, management issues, and practical

approaches and tools. It will include the underpinning social determinants of health and the importance of a multi-disciplinary multi-sectoral approach.

The content of the lectures will focus on the unique epidemiology and clinical aspects, public health implications and best practice approaches for diverse refugee, immigrant and migrant populations. The following topics will be covered:

1. Migration flows and determinants of migration.
2. Approach to and management of key infectious diseases including tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, HIV, parasitic infections.
3. Vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.
4. Management of key non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiac disease, cancer and cancer screening and mental health issues.
5. Pediatric health issues.
6. Women’s health issues.
7. Health care access barriers and facilitators.
8. Multidisciplinary models of culturally and linguistically competent care and effective stakeholder collaboration.

The course curriculum will include didactic expert lectures, clinical vignettes to highlight key issues, as well as panel discussions and question periods following each half day to encourage lively discussions and active engagement.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding and appreciation of the broad range of the heath needs of diverse migrant populations along with strategies for addressing these needs.

TARGET AUDIENCE

•  Clinicians—both primary care and specialists
• Public health practitioners
• Policy makers

ENROLMENT

Limited to 100 in-person participants and unlimited online.