Refugee & Immigrant Health
Leadership
Position:
Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
Randa.Sifri@jefferson.edu
Position:
Associate Director of Research, Family & Community Medicine
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
Amy.Cunningham@jefferson.edu
Positions:
- Assistant Director of Research
- Assistant Director, Primary Care Research Fellowship
Position:
Family & Community Medicine
Email:
Allison.Casola@jefferson.edu
Mission
To achieve equity in healthcare access and health outcomes for refugees resettled in the United States.
DFCM Research Team
- Marc Altshuler, MD (Lead)
- Jessica Deffler, MD
- Colleen Payton, PhD, MPH
- Dhruvi Shah, MPH
Goals
- Deliver compassionate, comprehensive, longitudinal clinical care to refugees and asylees in our community.
- Educate students and providers to procure culturally competent evidence based care for the socio-medically complex population within a collaborative framework.
- Conduct research to evaluate and improve the delivery of care to refugees.
- Advocate for refugees, asylees, and other immigrant populations at the local, state and federal levels.
Recent Projects
- Comprehensive Refugee Surveillance Program (Funder: CDC)
- Wyss Wellness Center (Funder: Hansjörg Wyss Foundation)
Selected Publications
- EMR-based intervention improves lead screening at an urban family medicine practice
- Evaluation of latent tuberculous infection and treatment completion for refugees in Philadelphia, PA, 2010-2012
- Hepatitis b screening and prevalence among resettled refugees — United States, 2006–2011
- Cervical Cancer Screening Outcomes in a Refugee Population
- The refugee medical exam: What you need to do
- Global health at home: A student-run community health initiative for refugees
- An opportunity for coordinated cancer care: The intersection of health care reform, primary care providers, and cancer patients
- Preface
- Vaccine science: a critical field in the control of diseases. Preface.
- Vaccine-preventable diseases and foreign-born populations
- An opportunity for coordinated cancer care: Intersection of health care reform, primary care providers, and cancer patients
- Can the Medical Home Reduce Cancer Morbidity and Mortality?
- Development of unilateral cervical and supraclavicular lymphadenopathy after human papilloma virus vaccination
- The management of keloids: Hands-on versus hands-off
- Erythema multiforme after meningitis vaccine: Patient safety concerns with repeat immunization