Anna S Landau

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• Landau, A., Sanchez, B., Kiser, L., De Zapien, J., Hall-Lipsy, E., Pina Lopez, D., Ingram, M., & Ahumada, J. (2021). Health Sciences Interprofessional Collaborative: A Perspective on Migration, COVID-19, and the Impact on Indigenous Communities. Frontiers in sociology, 6, 618107.
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  At the United States-Mexico border, the impacts of immigration policy are dynamic with political, humanitarian, and health outcomes. This article highlights the experiences at the Casa Alitas migrant shelter in Tucson, Arizona. Casa Alitas aims to meet the needs of the im/migrants it serves, including the unique needs of indigenous asylum-seekers from Central America. We highlight the importance of community-based humanitarian response to support asylum-seekers in a way that acknowledges our shared humanity and implements specific approaches (e.g., language justice and trauma informed care). The effort at Casa Alitas is unique because in addition to other partnerships, Casa Alitas established an interprofessional collaboration between the University of Arizona Health Sciences Colleges and the Arizona State University School of Social Work. The interprofessional collaboration encourages mutual education amongst our professions and the use of our extended networks to meet the needs of im/migrants and asylum seekers in our community and the United States. We recommend the development of best practices in asylum health care, the importance of creating border-wide networks to build on local resources, and highlight the importance of exposing future health practitioners to trauma informed and culturally and linguistically appropriate care.

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• Landau, A. (2021, June). Migrant Health: Collaborating to Care for Vulnerable Populations. Arizona Rural Health Conference. Flagstaff, AZ: UA Center for Rural Health.
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  This presentation will address care for migrant patients, specifically those arriving on the US-Mexico Border. It will touch on work done by clinicians and volunteers at Casa Alitas Welcome Center, a shelter for asylum seekers in Tucson, AZ, as well as collaborative work done in partnership with both interprofessional teams through the University of Arizona and Arizona State University as well as with multiple local and national organizations. The presentation will touch on the specific needs of migrant patients both on an immediate and longer-term basis, on arrival at the Border, as well as once they are settled in their hostcommunities across the country. It will also discuss the creation of a volunteer medical team and how that team, in conjunction with other local partners has served an incredibly vulnerable population before and during COVID-19.
• Hall-Lipsy, E. A., Guernsey De Zapien, J. E., Ingram, M., Kiser, L. H., Koch, B. D., Landau, A., Lebensohn, P., Ahumada, j., Lopez, d., Sanchez, B., & Tucker, K. (2020, March). Developing and implementing an interprofessional training program in the midst of a border crisis: Milagros. Teaching Prevention 2020. San Antonio, TX: Association for Prevention Teaching and Research.
• Hall-Lipsy, E. A., Landau, A., Guernsey De Zapien, J. E., Ingram, M., Kiser, L. H., Koch, B. D., Lebensohn, P., Ahumada, J., Lopez, D. P., Sanchez, B., & Tucker, K. (2020, October). Academic-community partnerships to empower students to address the migrant crisis. APHA 2020: Annual Meeting and Expo. Virtual.
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  Along the US-Mexico border, community organizations have been responding to the migrant crisis by providing shelter and care to migrant families who have been released by Customs and Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At one local agency, as many as 240 travelers have arrived at their shelter in one day; this overwhelming number of individuals and families arriving in our community with little support and resources prompted the academic community to identify ways to assist in this effort. Faculty members from colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and social work, sought ways we could integrate students by creating interprofessional service-learning opportunities that would teach to the larger goal of how to address community crises. A course was developed and students from all five professions were recruited for participation. In this interprofessional educational program, participating students and their faculty advisors engaged in service-learning activities, developed and implemented group projects in response to community-identified concerns, learned about the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their roles as citizens and health professionals in their community.The process of developing and implementing the interprofessional course across two universities and five colleges was evaluated, including the identification of challenges and opportunities. Additionally, outcomes for the over 25 students were measured using reflective discussions and writing assignments, as well as a retrospective pre/concurrent post survey to address the change in their attitudes towards the causes of migration and their empowerment to address community crises now and in their professional practice.
• Landau, A. (2019, October). Ostergaard Memorial Lecture in Global Health: "Global Health at Home: Caring for Migrant Families on their U.S. Arrival”. AAFP Global Health Summit. Albuquerque, New Mexico.