description:
This day meeting aims to examine the question of migration and health particularly from a UK perspective and to identify opportunities and challenges in research, policy and service provision for migrant communities.
Topics include:
Migration and health – why does it matter?
Migrant communities in the UK: Current patterns and issues
Migration and health services in the UK- problems and prospects
The health of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
Migration and communicable disease in the UK
The mental health of migrants in the UK
Learning from migration- the HIV VCT project
The way forward: setting an agenda, building a network
Essay prize presentation, “Does ethnicity in health matter”

Location:
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street London, W1G 0AE