Event

Saturday, August 23rd, from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY) in Active Learning Room 1220. The training will be led by local experts in collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights.

The Human Rights Initiative at UB is a medical student-run organization that was founded to address the needs of survivors of torture who are seeking asylum in the Western New York area and beyond. Our expanding network of physicians, medical students, licensed mental health providers, social workers, lawyers, and others works to perform physical, gynecological, and psychological forensic evaluations for individuals who have been tortured or persecuted in their native countries and are now applying for asylum in the United States. These evaluations can be lifesaving for our clients; individuals are more likely to be granted asylum in the United States with documentation of the physical or psychological evidence of the torture they experienced.

Sanjida
Email: szriea@buffalo.edu