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No faculty has any financial relationships to disclose.

Marisa Chiang, MPH - Speaker

Marisa Chiang is the Associate Director of MDPH's Bureau of Infectious Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention where she oversees a contracted network of community health centers and hospitals delivering refugee health assessment and tuberculosis outpatient services. She has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in refugee health since 2006 supporting community health worker programs in providing health outreach and education to new refugees and immigrants.  Marisa moved from California to Boston and received her MPH degree from Boston University’s School of Public Health, with a focus on maternal and child health.   The strengths that refugee and immigrant communities bring as they build a life for themselves and their families in the United States are at the center of her work, as are the challenges that new arrivals face

Paul Geltman, MD- Speaker

Dr. Paul Geltman brings over 25 years of experience to his role as the first CMO of the Upham’s Corner Health Center in Dorchester. Dr. Geltman started his career as a pediatrics resident at Upham’s Corner and then continued on as a full staff member before moving on to the Whittier Street Health Center and then Cambridge Health Alliance.  Over the course of his career, he has become a nationally recognized expert on immigrant and refugee health issues.

After graduating from Princeton University, Dr. Geltman received his M.D. and M.P.H degrees from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  He completed his pediatric residency at the Floating Hospital for Children (Tufts Medical Center) and then a post-doctoral fellowship in child advocacy and community pediatrics with a focus on immigrant and refugee health at Boston Medical Center.

With over 50 publications to his name, Dr. Geltman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and of Health Policy and Health Services Research at BU’s Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. In addition, he is the Medical Director for Refugee Health in the Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Jeffrey P. Winer, PhD- Speaker

Jeffrey P. Winer, PhD, is an attending psychologist within the Trauma and Community Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and an instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Winer’s work is primarily focused on developing, disseminating, and implementing culturally responsive and trauma-informed psychological interventions for youth and families of refugee and immigrant backgrounds. The values of equity, anti-racism, and structural systems change are at the center of this work. He is the recipient of a Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award and is co-author of Mental Health Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth, published by the American Psychological Association in 2019. Outside of his work at Boston Children’s Hospital, he continues to work at the McLean Hospital 3East Adolescent DBT Partial Hospital Program and maintains a private practice. For more information, visit www.drjeffwiner.com.

Faculty

Karen Robitaille, MBA, MSN, RN, NCSN

Director of School Health Services 

MA Department of Public Health

Planners

Jennifer Cochran

Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention

MA Department of Public Health

Ashley Romero

Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention

MA Department of Public Health

Marisa Chiang, MPH 

Associate Director

Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention

MA Department of Public Health

Erin Sivak, MSN, BSN, RN 

 Assistant Director, BU SHIELD

Speaker, Course Advisor 

Beverly Heinze-Lacey, MPH, BSN, RN

Director, BU SHIELD

Nurse Planner 

CNE Program Manager: Lesly Zapata