Mentoring visit lecture – prof. Michaeli Hynie, York University (Canada)
17 04 2023
Category: Events, I.1.1/IV.1.1
Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw would like to invite you to a lecture of prof. Michaeli Hynie, York University (Canada) “Using social determinants of health lens to understand the impact of policy on refugee integration outcomes”.
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions that affect the health and well-being of individuals and communities. This term also refers to the social factors that distribute these conditions unequally between groups in society (Graham, 2004, World Health Organization, 2008). In this talk, I will review the research on refugee resettlement policies in high-income countries in terms of the social determinants of health, and thus their impact on the health and well-being of refugees and asylum seekers, and how integration emerges as a factor across both the social determinants and the health outcomes for refugees and asylum seekers.
Michaela Hynie – Ph.D. Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interim Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. She is also an Honourary Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Rwanda and the past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. She conducts community-based research on the social determinants of health with communities experiencing social conflict, social exclusion, or forced displacement and migration. She collaborates with communities, community-serving agencies and activist groups in the development and evaluation of social, institutional and policy interventions that can improve mental health and well-being by addressing social exclusion. Her work has primarily been in Canada, and Rwanda, but also in the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Liberia, Nepal, Sierra Leone and South Africa.
The event will take place on 27.04.2023 from 15:00-16:30 in a hybrid format – online and stationary at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw (ul. Karowa 18, room 18).