Migration Seminar: Sara Snyder, "Building Capacity, Not Walls: Increasing Asylum Medicine Accessibility and Awareness"

"Building Capacity, Not Walls: Increasing Asylum Medicine Accessibility and Awareness"

Sara Snyder, Clinical Trauma Psychologist and Health Equity Researcher, Cambridge Health Alliance; Harvard Medical School.

This is a hybrid event. To attend on Zoom, please register here.
Lunch will be available. If you will attend in person, please sign up below so we order enough food.

Dr. Snyder is a clinical trauma psychologist and health equity researcher. She is the Director of Research and Development for Cambridge Health Alliance Asylum Program (CHAAP) and is a research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital for Dr. Altaf Saadi’s Neurodisparities and Health Justice Lab. Dr. Snyder was a faculty member for three Asylum Medicine Training Initiative modules and holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School.

She completed her 50-50% clinical-research postdoctoral fellowship at CHA/HMS with time divided as in the Victims of Violence Program and the department of Population Health. Prior to receiving her doctorate, Dr. Snyder received two global health degrees from Columbia University; a: MPH in Public Health & Humanitarian Assistance and MA in Global Mental Health & Trauma. Her global work involves measurement adaptation for local idioms of distress, mental health care capacity building, and access to care programs. She works predominantly with displaced persons, such as former child soldiers, refugees, IDPs, and incarcerated persons. Dr. Snyder has worked on projects in the UAE, Jordan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania.