This presentation focuses on recently-initiated interdisciplinary research focusing on the impact of immigration policy and climate on international medical graduates (IMGs) working in underserved areas in the United States. Drawing on policy analysis, review of grey and published literature, and qualitative interviews, It highlights ethical and other challenges that arise from physician shortage and IMGs’ role in building health care delivery infrastructure, particularly in contexts of economic, social, and environmental vulnerability. The research, funded by the Greenwall Foundation, centers on West Virginia, among the poorest and most underserved states, and reliant on IMGs to meet healthcare needs.

Kata Chillag has a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh, and postdoctoral training in applied epidemiology and public health as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During her time at CDC, she worked on public health programs and research including polio eradication in Bangladesh, biomedical HIV research in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Emergency Operations Center during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Dr. Chillag also worked in the Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, focusing on HIV/AIDS. In 2013, she began working on the staff as a senior policy analyst and then as associate director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, under President Barack Obama. In 2019, She is currently the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Health at Macalester College. In January 2020 will join the faculty of Davidson College as the inaugural Hamilton McKay Professor of Human Health, where she will be building and heading a new public health program focusing on the social and political determinants of health and relationships with international, national, and local public health experts and institutions. 

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