Academic and Research Skills
Advocacy Pathway
Children with Chronic Conditions
Community Pediatrics
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Education Pathway
General Pediatrics
Global Neonatal & Children's Health
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Health Services Research
Immigrant Health
Public Health
Highlighted Theme: Effects of Climate Change on Child Health
Paul Wise, MD, MPH
Professor
Stanford University
stanford, California, United States
This session would bring together an expert group of pediatricians to discuss the dynamic reality of custodial care for migrant children in US detention and the most prominent opportunities for academic pediatrics programs to help shape systemic reform. The number of migrant children apprehended at the US/Mexican border is unprecedented. During 2021, almost 150,000 unaccompanied children, many climate refugees from Central America, were encountered by US authorities at the southwest border, a challenge that has overwhelmed systems of custodial care largely built to hold adult males seeking work in the US. This session will provide insight into the rapidly evolving nature of the challenge, including analyses of demographic, health, and COVID-19 trends, as well as policies that have had profound humanitarian implications, such as family separation, COVID-19 expulsion and Remain in Mexico protocols. Most of the session will address the capabilities and inadequacies of current systems of care and explore potential directions for substantial reform. This will include examination of how academic programs could help restructure the care children receive in Border Patrol detention facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement family detention facilities, Department of Health and Human Services shelters for unaccompanied children, and access to follow up care upon release into the US, particularly for children with special needs. These considerations will be directed at providing the essential evidence base and pediatric program perspective necessary to craft new, more coherent policies, procedures, and custodial systems that can better meet the profound needs and rights of this vulnerable population.
Speaker: marietta Vazquez, MD, FAAP – Yale School of Medicine
Speaker: Pritesh Gandhi, MD, MPH – Department of Homeland Security
Speaker: Lisa Ayoub-Rodriguez, MD – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
Speaker: Karla Fredricks, MD, MPH – Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
Speaker: Marsha R. Griffin, MD – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Speaker: Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH – Stanford University