Mission
The mission of the Research, Evaluation, and Ethics Committee is to foster refugee health research among members of the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers and to act as a source of research expertise and support for the broader refugee health community.
Vision
The vision of the Research, Evaluation, and Ethics Committee is to create a refugee health evidence base and to support data driven program creation and evaluation in order to improve refugee health outcomes for refugee children, families, individuals and communities.
Charter
Download the Committee charter to learn more about our objectives.
Leadership
Committee Chairs
Sarah Kimball, MD
Co-Director, Immigrant & Refugee Health Center, Boston Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Sarah.Kimball@bmc.org
Gayathri S. Kumar, MD CPH
Medical Officer
Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch/Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
gasuresh@gmail.com
Fatima Karaki, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director, Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI)
Division of Hospital Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Hospital and Trauma Center
Fatima.Karaki@ucsf.edu
Vice Chair
Colleen Payton, PhD MPH CPH MCHES
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Moravian College
paytonc@moravian.edu
Research Agenda Subcommittee Chairs
Sarah Brewer, PhD MPA
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Sarah.Brewer@cuanschutz.edu
Amy J. Zeidan, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
amy.waldner@gmail.com
Ethics Subcommittee Chairs
Julie M. Aultman, PhD
Director, Medical Ethics and Humanities Program, College of Graduate Studies
Professor of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine
Northeast Ohio Medical University
jmaultma@neomed.edu
Brittany DiVito, MPH FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner/Refugee Health
Valleywise Health/District Medical Group
brittany.divito@gmail.com
Members (2019-2022)
- Pooja Agrawal, MD MPH; Yale University; pagrawalmd@gmail.com
- Ibrahim AlMasri, MD; University of Calgary; ibrahim.almasri@ucalgary.ca
- Jacob Atem, PhD MPH; Southern Sudan Healthcare Organization; jacob@sshco.org
- Julie M. Aultman, PhD; Northeast Ohio Medical University; jmaultma@neomed.edu
- Elizabeth Barnett, MD; Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine; ebarnett@bu.edu
- Sarah Brewer, PhD MPA; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; sarah.brewer@cuanschutz.edu
- Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, MD MPH; University of Washington; eedh@uw.edu
- Brittany DiVito, MPH FNP-BC; Valleywise Health/District Medical Group; brittany.divito@gmail.com
- Lisa H. Gren, PhD MSPH; University of Utah; lisa.gren@hsc.utah.edu
- Mahri Z. Haider, MD MPH; Harborview Medical Center; mhaider@uw.edu
- Fern R. Hauck, MD MS; University of Virginia; frh8e@virginia.edu
- Anisa Ibrahim, MD; University of Washington; anisai@uw.edu
- Emily S. Jentes, PhD MPH; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; esjentes@hotmail.com
- Fatima Karaki, MD; University of California, San Francisco; Fatima.Karaki@ucsf.edu
- Sarah Kimball, MD; Boston University School of Medicine; Sarah.Kimball@bmc.org
- Gayathri S. Kumar, MD CPH; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; gasuresh@gmail.com
- Laura Newman, PhD MHS; Washington State Department of Health; laura.newman@doh.wa.gov
- Colleen Payton, PhD MPH CPH MCHES; Moravian College; paytonc@moravian.edu
- Rachel Talavlikar, MD CCFP cTropMed; Mosaic Refugee Health Program; University of Calgary; racheltalav@gmail.com
- Mark L. Wieland, MD MPH; Mayo Clinic; wieland.mark@mayo.edu
- Katherine Yun, MD MHS; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania; yunk@email.chop.edu
- Amy Zeidan, MD; Emory University School of Medicine; amy.waldner@gmail.com