Overview

The APTR migrant health resource library is designed to assist health professions faculty in addressing the health needs of refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrant populations through their professional work as teachers, clinical and public health practitioners, researchers, and members of a university community. The resource library is an organizing structure and provides resources such as websites, research articles, and recommended readings.

The 'Resource Llibrary' was developed by APTR members to support the APTR Policy released December 2020: Role of Academia in Addressing the Health Needs of Migrant Populations. This APTR policy statement calls upon post-secondary educational institutions in the United States-particularly health professions schools and their academic units that teach prevention and public health — to proactively increase knowledge about migrants and to teach about the scientific and evidence-based perspectives on migrant health.

Migrant Health Co-chairs: Rachel E. Fabi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University and Shanta Rishi Dube, PhD, MPH, Professor and Director of Master of Public Health Program, Levine College of Health Sciences, Wingate University.

Library Curator: Deborah Hume, PhD, Professor of Emerita in Public Health, University of Missouri.

Library Structure

I. Key Concepts in Migration »

II. Domestic and International Policy on Migration »

III. Migrants and the Health Care System »

IV. Migrant Health Challenges »

A. Occupational Health

B. Gender-Based Violence 

C. Human Trafficking

D. LGBTQ+ Health

E. Mental Health

F. Food Security and Nutrition

G. Maternal and Reproductive Health

H. Child and Adolescent Health

VII. Public Health Strategies and Interventions »

A. Community Health Workers

B. Communicable Disease Control and Prevention

C. Trauma-Informed Care

VIII. Ethics, Politics, & Advocacy »

IX. Workforce Development: Cultural Competence »