Intersectoral Collaboration: A Model for Refugee Health and Settlement

Description

This webinar will discuss a long-standing collaborative partnership between a primary care clinic and a refugee shelter.

Co-location and partnership structure of this collaborative care model will be reviewed, in addition to respective roles between these health and settlement providers.

Of unique interest, the synergy of these intersectoral roles will be discussed as well as opportunities where this may be utilized and scaled in alternative setting

About the presenters:

Vanessa Wright, Nurse Practitioner-Primary Health Care, MScN, Doctor of Nursing, Crossroads Clinic, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto

Vanessa Wright is a nurse practitioner at Women’s College Hospital and emerging health systems researcher. Through her decade long work in newcomer health at the Crossroads Refugee Clinic, Vanessa has developed and implemented innovative mod-els of primary care between hospital, community, and social services to support those navigating the refugee process.

Vanessa's professional experience includes working across primary, acute, and public health care domains, as well as facilitating teams in medical outreach and education both locally and globally.

She is a subject matter expert for CAMH’s Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Course and professional practice and nursing faculty lead for the University of To-ronto’s, Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration

Vanessa’s research interests lie in community engagement, interprofessional collabora-tion, learning health systems and integration. She received her Doctor of Nursing from the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and her thesis explored the relationship between cross-sector integrated care and organizational learning.

Mashfiq Sabit, Certified Infection Control Practitioner, Sojourn House, Toronto

Mashfiq is an Infection Control Practitioner and Healthcare Administrator at Sojourn House, with a background in microbiology, psychology, and public health.

He specialized as a certified infection control practitioner from the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology in the United States.

The array of responsibilities that came with working with healthcare and settlement ser-vice providers, swiftly molded his Infection Prevention and Control role at Sojourn House from being strictly focused on the management of communicable diseases, to

the wider focus of healthcare access, wellbeing, and education. Mashfiq did this by fos-tering partnerships with community partners and stakeholders to connect Sojourn House clients to different healthcare services; focusing on health equity and bridging the gaps.