University at Buffalo (UB)
Community Outreach
Human Rights Initiative at the University at Buffalo
Medical director Kim Griswold, MD (center), works with care coordinators — including Ali Kadhum (left) and Anna Skop — and medical students to address refugees’ needs.
As part of a community coalition, this medical student-run asylum clinic collaborates with licensed healthcare professionals in to provide forensic evaluations for survivors of torture seeking asylum in the United States.
The Human Rights Initiative at the University at Buffalo (formerly the WNY Human Rights Clinic) was founded in 2014 to serve the need for medical and psychiatric forensic evaluations of survivors of torture seeking asylum status in the Buffalo area.