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    (NBC) Coronavirus school closures means kids are missing more than class. Here's how to help

    Published 4/26/2020 on NBC Think Because of the coronavirus pandemic and state stay-at-home orders, Western children are experiencing loneliness, fear and co...

    Provide Emotional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Physicians Facing Psychological Trauma

    Published 4/21/2020 on The Healthcare Blog The U.S. now has the highest number of COVID-related deaths in the world, with exhausted, frightened physicians ma...

    (US News) Flatten the Mental Health Curve by Fixing Our Broken Mental Health System

    Published on 4/17 at U.S. News and World Report IN THE MIDST OF THE coronavirus pandemic, we are also on the brink of a mental health pandemic that our curre...

    WUSA9 Local News Interview- Emotional PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

    Had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ariane Datil of WUSA Channel 9 on 4/13/2020 on the emotional toll the pandemic is having on health care workers, and...

    Fighting COVID-19: Don't let health care workers become collateral damage

    Crystal Wong MD, Suzan Song MD, MPH, PhD, and Sara Kerley, MD Published in KevinMD on 4/1/2020 Last week’s death of the first nurse to die from COVID-19 in N...

    Congressional briefing (Napolitano D-CA): Immigration policies are creating a mental health crisis

    On 10/29/2019, I will be presenting a Congressional briefing to Representative Grace Napolitano (D-CA) on the mental health of unaccompanied minors in detent...

    Working clinically with refugees and forcibly displaced people

    As the Spokesperson for Refugee Mental Health to the American Psychiatric Association, I've created a Fact Sheet for Refugee Mental Health as well as a video...

    Promoting family resilience to help youth adjust to an abrupt transition to the U.S.

    On Apr 24-25, 2019, I'll be giving a Spring Symposium talk on "Promoting Family Resilience to help youth adjust following an abrupt transition to the U.S." f...

    Children in Detention: Critical clinical, legal, and human rights issues for health professionals

    Children continue to be separated from their parents when they cross the border, despite the Executive Order to end family separations. I'll be joining an es...

    Mental health of refugees and immigrants

    I'm pleased to do a webinar, "Clinical considerations in mental health for unaccompanied and separated youth at the border" for the Society for the Study of ...

    Barriers and enablers to mental health care for refugees and immigrants

    As technical adviser to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, I conducted a webinar on 8/28/2019 on the barriers and enablers to mental health care for refugee...

    Panelist at the Phillips Collection, "Warmth of the Sun" exhibit

    Child soldiers and Perpetual War (HuffPo)

    Published on HuffPo 12/6/2011 The Child Soldiers Protection Act of 2008 was designed to restrict military and security aid to countries that use child soldie...

    Congressional panel testimony on the mental health effects of human trafficking

    Haiti: Addressing Atrocities Following the Quake

    Published on 5/31/2010 on HuffPo By now, people are aware of the earthquake’s toll in Haiti. Two months later, the smell of dead bodies trapped under the ru...

    Insecurity puts women and girls in Haiti at risk

    Interview on NPR's WBUR Here and Now show: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2010/03/23/rundown-323-3 A psychiatrist just back from Haiti reports that 80% of t...

    NPR/Public Radio International Interview: Sierra Leone Mental Health

    Interviewed on 11/3/2018. Can listen here: https://www.pri.org/stories/2008-11-03/sierra-leone-mental-health In all likelihood, Sierra Leone has not been on ...