Expert workshop - Critical interpretive synthesis and migrant health (Bavo Hendriks)

Background

Despite the universal right to health being well established by international law, migrant health disparities persist. With restrictive migration policies being increasingly associated with poor migrant health, these disparities have, however, rarely been put into their structural context. Strengthening research on the impact of restrictive immigration policies on migrant health has therefore recently been called a top priority by the World Health Organisation in creating more inclusive and responsive healthcare systems for migrants, refugees and other displaced populations across the globe.

This interactive, case-based seminar will focus on the critical interpretive synthesis research method as a useful, integrative tool for theory development in the increasingly complex, interdisciplinary field of migration policies and migrant health research.

Speaker

Bavo Hendriks (he/him) is an ITM alumnus and recently graduated as an obstetrician-gynaecologist at Ghent University. As a clinical fellow in social obstetrics at the Antwerp University Hospital, his current clinical work and research concentrates on the intersection between complex social factors and maternal health, with a specific focus on migration.