Join us for a conversation with colleagues from Boston Medical Center’s Immigrant and Refugee Health Center to learn about programs and services designed for and with immigrant women. A light lunch will be served during this event.
The Partnership for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being is co-led by Instructor and Health and Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan,FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN, and FXB Faculty Affiliate Jocelyn Chu, MPH, ScD. This project aims to examine the mental healthcare landscape in Massachusetts and learn from immigrant-led, culturally rooted, community-based approaches to mental health.
Main talk from 1:00pm-2:00pm EST at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kresge 200 (677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115).
The conversation will continue at the Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
Speaker Information
Margaret (Maggie Sullivan) FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN
is an Instructor and Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Program on Immigrants and Unhoused Communities, a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Nursing, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).
Johanna Milord, PhD
is a lecturer in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College and the Associate Director of the developing Counseling Psychology Training Center, working with fellow colleagues to form a community-based culturally responsive doctoral training clinic. Dr. Milord's research focuses on how race, gender, class and immigrant background interact with career outcomes for youth and general mental health for populations of color.
Kalo Sokoto, PhD
completed her pre- and postdoctoral clinical training at Boston Medical Center/Boston University. She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from West Virginia University in 2023. As an advocate for health equity, her dissertation looked at racism in US dental care settings and its relationship to dental anxiety and dental visits.
Audrey Montgomery, MSW
is the Program Coordinator for the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic (RWHC) at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She holds a Masters in Social Work focused on global social work and community change.
