Addressing the Public Health Crisis at Border Detention Centers

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A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

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Description

In the last few years, the process through which refugees from other countries seek to gain asylum in the US has been characterized by family separation, extended detentions, and reports of dangerous conditions. What is the role of physicians and other health care providers in these environments, and what sort of ethical and clinical dilemmas do they face? What are the ways out of this crisis?

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The Health Policy and Bioethics Consortia is a monthly series that convenes two international experts from different fields or vantage points to discuss how biomedical innovation and health care delivery are affected by various ethical norms, laws, and regulations.

They are organized by the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in collaboration with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.