History

 

The Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights grew out of the International Mental Health Program established in 1995 by Dr. Piwowarczyk. The program is an interdisciplinary collaboration that was founded in 1998 by Susan Akram, JD, Associate Professor of Law, Paul Geltman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Michael A. Grodin, MD, Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry, and Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, Terence Keane, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Alejandro Moreno, MD, Instructor of Medicine, Raul Garcia, DMD, CAGS, MMSc, Professor, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and Linda Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH, Instructor of Psychiatry. The Center is a member of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP).