November 30 from 14:00-18:00 UTC, 8:00-12:00 CDMX / 11:00-15:00 hrs Brasilia Time
How has COVID-19 pandemic transformed the migration landscape in the Americas? Are we better prepared for the next global emergency?
Opening Remarks & Keynote Speaker
14:00 UTC / 8:00 CDMX / 11:00 Brasília
- Why COVID-19 and Migration: Summary of MSF activities in the region in migration, present objectives of the session
Jennifer Max
BRAMU Director - A call for intersectorial collaboration on research agendas for People on the Move (PoM) especially in pandemics
Dr. Rene Leyva-Flores
Researcher in Medical Sciences of the National Institute of Public
Health, Mexico
Session 01: Mapping and key findings of research at the intersection of COVID-19, health access and outcomes for PoM
14:25 UTC / 8:25 CDMX / 11:25 Brasília
- Introduction
Marcos Tamariz
MSF Deputy Head of Mission CAMINO - COVID-19 Impact on Migration and Health: A bibliometric analysis from the International Organization of Migration
Aleksandar Arnikov
Regional Thematic Specialist on Migration and Health for the
Americas, OIM
Sweetmavourneen Agan
National Migration Health Research Analyst of the Migration
Health Division, OIM - Systemic discrimination and exclusion: COVID-19 vaccination and the health rights of displaced Venezuelans in Latin America
David Cecil Hill
University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- The experience of the COVID-19 emergency response on the Northern border in México
Evelyn Zorrilla
Data Analyst MSF CAMINO
Derek johnson
Manager Epidemiologist MSF - Q&A
All panelists
BREAK
Session 02: Insight into migration plans during the COVID-19 pandemic in LatAm
15:35 UTC / 9:35 CDMX / 12:35 Brasília
- Introduction
Henry Rodríguez
Head of Roraima Project in Brazil, OCB - How the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted migration plans and mental health of Haitians in Chile and Mexico
Teresita Rocha Jiménez
Center for Research in Society and Health, Universidad Mayor,
Chile and SocioMedicine Nucleus (SocioMed) - COVID-19 and migration routes to the Caribbean
Dr. Edwin Matamoros Chávez
Director at the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central
America (IHNCA)
- Q&A
All panelists
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Session 03: Essential lessons learned for improved health care responses for PoM during pandemics
16:40 UTC / 10:40 CDMX / 13:40 Brasília
- Introduction
Johana Vinasco
Former MSF Medical Activity Manager in a migration project in
Northeast Colombia - Health care for international migrants in São Paulo, Brazil: Access and universality in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Denise Martin Coviello
Associate Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo
(UNIFESP) in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Editor of
the magazine Interface Comunicação, Saúde, Educação - Inclusion of migrants in health systems in Latin America: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ietza Rocío Bojórquez Chapela
Professor researcher in the Department of Population Studies of
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and co director of the
Latin American Hub of the Lancet Commission on Migration and
Health
- Migration and refuge: necessary topics for Nursing teaching in COVID-19 times Migration
Regina Yoshie Matsue
Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine at
the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) - How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border
Hannah H. Janeway
International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership
(IDHEAL) Fellow at UCLA - Q&A
All panelists
Summarizing and parting thoughts on PoM voices
- Closing speaker
Celso Bambaren Alatrista
PAHO/WHO Regional Advisor on Health Emergencies