How has COVID care evolved in underfunded communities at the US-Mexican border and what can we learn from it?

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In today’s episode, ‘COVID Testing, Treatment, and Management at the US-Mexico Border: Lessons Learned and National Impacts’, Dr. Roberto Johansson, MD, PhD, FAAP, General and Critical Care Pediatrician at Salud de Familiar La Fe in El Paso, Texas, and episode host, MCN’s Chief Program Officer of International and Emerging Issues, Deliana Garcia, will discuss what has changed with COVID testing, treatment, and management in border communities, and the national impacts it has had.

Clinicians will learn about the current challenges of care in binational settings, the role stigma and discrimination have played in addressing COVID in unique border communities, and important issues for the future of COVID and other infectious diseases.

This is one of several episodes exploring the long-term impacts of COVID in the ‘COVID’s Lasting Impact: Caring for Immigrant, Migrant and Asylee Patients’ podcast miniseries. Find this series, a part of our podcast, ‘On the Move with MCN’, wherever you listen to podcasts, or click one of these. Be sure to subscribe to get notified of future episodes!

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Guest

Dr. Roberto Johansson, MD, PhD, FAAP
General and Critical Care Pediatrician at Salud de Familiar La Fe

Dr. Roberto Johansson is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care. Presently, he works for Salud de Familiar La Fe in El Paso, Texas. He is also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Science Center.

Dr. Johansson completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University followed by a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Cornell University. The American Society for Microbiology has awarded him an ICAAC Young Investigator Award. He has been awarded memberships into Alpha Omega Alpha and the Arnold Gold Humanitarian Society. He is the author of many peer reviewed scientific articles. He was also part of the Child Advocacy Committee in New York State for 20 years.

Johansson, affectionately known as Dr. Bert, is noted for employing child's play and humor as one method for evaluating his patients. He enjoys mentoring young people interested in science and medicine, especially disadvantaged students. Dr Bert also works with Children at the Center Against Family and Sexual Violence, recent Migrants and with homeless children in El Paso.

Episode Host

Deliana Garcia, MA
Chief Program Officer, International and Emerging Issues - Migrant Clinicians Network

As the Chief Program Officer, International and Emerging Issues for Migrant Clinicians Network, Deliana Garcia (she/her/ella) has dedicated more than thirty years to the health and wellness needs of migrant and other underserved immigrant populations. Throughout her career she has worked in the areas of reproductive health, sexual and intimate partner violence, access to primary care, and infectious disease control and prevention. Garcia is responsible for the development and expansion of Health Network, an international bridge case management and patient navigation system to make available across international borders the health records of migrants diagnosed with infectious and chronic diseases. She has served as the Principal Investigator or member of the research team for a number of studies addressing topics, such as sexual and intimate partner violence prevention among Latino migrant and immigrant families, trauma in transit for migrants crossing international borders, and emotionally-charged dialogue between patients and health care providers.

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