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Published on April 15, 2019
Community Scholar Linn Biorklund Belliveau recently returned from Mexico, where she conducted research on the health of Honduran migrants in Mexico, towards her major project Health of Displaced People in the Context of Climate Change & Restrictive Migration Policies.
In this Lunch and Learn, Linn will present an initial analysis of how environmental and political determinants of health endanger personal safety, health and dignity and share impressions from a recent visit to the southern Mexican state Tabasco.
April 24, 2019 | 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm | Dahdaleh Institute Boardroom
Click here for the event page.
Image Credit: (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images) Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the U.S., hold a demonstration demanding authorities to allow the rest of the group to cross, in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico after crossing from Guatemala, on Oct. 20, 2018.
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism, Planetary Health |
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Related Work |
Morbidity & Mortality Patterns of Migrants in a Warming World | Project, Research
Health of Displaced People in the Context of Climate Change & Restrictive Migration Policies | Project, Research |
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Linn Biorklund Belliveau, Graduate Student Scholar, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change - Alum
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