Topic Area: Immigrant health

The Leah Zallman Center is providing technical assistance services to the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) to learn from their new pilot program, Immigrant Assistance Services (IAS).

LZC evaluated the second round of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement’s (MOIA) Weaving Well-being initiative. Weaving Well-being aims to support immigrant-serving community-based organizations in caring for their staff and providing non-clinical mental health services to their communities. Weaving Well-being 2.0 followed a successful pilot in 2022, of which LZC was the evaluator.

The Leah Zallman Center is partnering with Southern New Hampshire University’s Center for New Americans and New Hampshire Equity Collective to conduct an analysis of English language instruction needs for immigrants in Manchester, NH.

LZC is conducting a study of the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Asylum Program’s (CHAAP) asylum medicine residency elective in partnership with CHAAP and the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy (CHEEA).

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) partnered with No Kid Hungry to evaluate a No Kid Hungry grant aimed at addressing food insecurity in immigrant communities and thawing the chilling effects of the public charge ruling.

ICH is conducting a qualitative research study to understand the drivers of disparities in substance use disorder treatment among Black and Latinx patients at Mass General Brigham.