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"San Francisco State University hosts it first ever
conference focusing on the women of Afghanistan"
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Mina is an Afghan immigrant with an undergraduate education in International Relations. After studying abroad in Egypt and seeing first handedly the disparities of health on an international scale, it led her to take on the opportunity to serve as chairwoman of the Fundraising Committee for an NGO providing dental relief and education to orphans and widows in Afghanistan through a WHO mobile health system model. She has recently obtained her Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Davis and worked on a practicum in collaboration with VIRTIS in mapping the Afghan immigrant community in the Sacramento and Bay Area. Her interests include using the tools of epidemiology to confront child/maternal health issues, immunizations, infectious diseases and refugee health. She is fluent in Dari, Pashto and English. |
Born and raised in Afghanistan, and educated at Kabul Medical University, Dr. Rohullah Amin is a psychiatrist and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University receiving additional expert training to serve his research work in Afghanistan. Director of VIRTIS’ international service in Afghanistan, Dr. Amin will be conducting transnational research on mental health with several universities in US and Central Asia. Email: Amin@virtis-ptsd.org |