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Through the RHP-AWE Refugee Health Partnership Health Navigation Practicum, clients are matched with school of medicine students who act as health navigators.

In this Q&A, Bazaz, who became a full-time faculty member at Loyola four years ago, shares more about the HEAL Collaborative and how it is serving asylum seekers in the Baltimore area.

In collaboration with the New England Journal of Medicine and Vox TV, HEAL is featured prominently in a new thirteen minute documentary, Health Care on the Edge - Challenges of Refugee Medicine.

Two pediatricians with empathy for the plight of asylum-seekers have found a way to help. Each one teamed up with a colleague to establish a forensic medical exam clinic. ! e exams help document evidence of the physical and psychological consequences of torture, human trafficking, sexual abuse and other suffering that spur migrants to flee their countries. Such documentation can significantly increase the chance that the individuals are granted approval for legal protection in the U.S.

The Johns Hopkins, Esperanza and Loyola Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative provides refugees with trauma-informed care and helps prepare affidavits to include in asylum applications.

The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute Baltimore Health Equity Impact Grant stimulates and advances community–university collaborations around research and program development. Thanks to the Urban Health Institute, we will be working on a Trauma Informed Care program alongside Esperanza Center and led by Dr. Katie O'Conor.

The Hopkins, Esperanza and Loyola (HEAL) Refugee Health and Asylum Clinic opened last November, and is the first asylum clinic of its type in Baltimore.