Opening Keynotes

• K1: Keynote: Globalization, Migration, and Ethnicity: Opportunities and Challenges, Uma Segal

• K2: Keynote: Superdiversity, population health and health care: opportunities and challenges in a changing world, Jenny Phillimore

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Conference Session Topics

• Diseases and Interventions

• Exclusion, Discrimination and Exploitation

• Health Policy

• Health Services and Providers

• Health Status and Outcomes

• Mental Health and Well-being

• Parents and Children

• Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• Research Methods

• Workshops

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Presentations - Health Status and Outcomes

• 1.1-O2: The Healthy Migrant Effect among migrants to Sweden, Magnus Helgesson

• 1.1-O7: Morbidity-mortality paradox in older male Italian migrants in Australia: the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project, Fiona Stanaway

• 1.1-O8: Mortality trends and differentials by nativity status in the United States, Lihua Liu

• 4.2-O1: Immigrants and refugees’ principal characteristics across Europe: a literature review, Elisa Valía-Cotanda

• 4.2-O2: Using the population structure from the All Ireland Traveller Health Study 2007-2010 to facilitate comparison with other Indigenous Ethnic Minority populations globally, Brigid Quirke

• 4.2-O3: A prospective study of tribal populations in Odisha, India, Vikas Bhatia

• 4.2-O5: Self-reported health status among migrant men and women in Spain. PELFI Study, Elena Ronda

• 4.2-O6: Health status of returning refugees, internally displaced persons, and the host community in a post-conflict district in Northern Sri Lanka, Rachel Burns

• 4.2-O7: Tackling health needs of migrant populations: the experience of the urban area of Milan, Anna Odone

• 5.3-O2: Health status of underprivileged population in Eastern India, Vikas Bhatia

• 5.3-O4: Migrant health in Ireland: a scoping review, Nazmy Villarroel-Williams

• 5.3-O5: Actual data on migrants’, refugees’ and apatrids’ health in Russia from scientific sources: preliminary results of a systematic review, Vitaly Polushkin

• 5.3-O7: Primarily health care needs of vulnerable Chinese immigrants in Vienna, Austria: a descriptive study of 80 outpatient data from 2015, Yuki Seidler

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Presentations - Mental Health and Well-being

• 1.2-O4: Loneliness among elderly migrants in the Netherlands – a qualitative study, Jeanine Suurmond

• 1.2-O6: Identity, islamophobia, and mental health: a qualitative investigation into mental health needs amongst Scotland’s Muslims, Karim Mitha

• 1.2-O7: Substance use among minor-aged unaccompanied refugees in Vienna and its surroundings, Marion Weigl

• 2.2-O1: Low social support satisfaction and incident anxiety and depressive symptoms in older male Italian migrants in Australia, Fiona Stanaway

• 2.2-O2: Labour-market marginalisation in Sweden among young immigrants with mental disorders, Magnus Helgesson

• 2.2-O4: Mental health and family composition after migration to Sweden, Elisabeth Mangrio

• 2.2-O6: Key themes from a study of Polish suicides in Lothian and Scotland 2012- 2016- recommendations for policy and practice, Magda Czarnecka

• 2.2-O7: Understanding race, mental health, and wellbeing: a progressive study of experienced racial othering in the UK and the US, Ifrah Sheikh

• 2.2-O8: Health behaviours and their determinants among migrants in Italy, Teresa Spadea

• 3.2-O2: Lacking occupational network contacts: an explanation for the ethnic variation of depressive symptoms in young adults in Sweden, Alexander Miething

• 3.2-O6: “Big big problem, depression. It has no solution”. Exploration of the perceptions about depression among elderly migrants in the Netherlands, Jeanine Suurmond

• 3.2-O8: Discrimination and mental health among Palestinian minority men in Israel, Nihaya Daoud

• 4.3-O3: Three shades of conformity as empowerment strategy for well-being by women of sub-Saharan African descent living in New Zealand, Oluwatoyin Kolawole

• 4.3-O6: Cultural considerations in healthcare encounters in Australia, Bernadette Brady

• 4.3-O7: When pain means more than pain: the intersectional experiences of living with chronic pain among culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and refugee communities in Australia, Bernadette Brady

• 7.4-O4: Courses on dementia for immigrants in Norway, Inger Molvik

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Presentations - Health Policy

• 1.3-O1: Why is the problem of inadequate health care coverage for migrants so persistent?, David Ingleby

• 1.3-O2: A systematic review of evaluations of the health impacts of migration-oriented public policies, Helena Honkaniemi

• 1.3-O3: Migration and health: a review of policies and initiatives in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), Anjali Borhade

• 1.3-O6: Health policies for tackling inequities in migrant health. What can the United Kingdom and Italy learn from each other?, Flavia Sesti

• 1.3-O7: Universal health coverage in ‘One ASEAN’: are migrants included?, Renzo Guinto

• 1.3-O8: Universal health coverage for undocumented migrants. The Spanish case, Maria Dalli

• 4.1-O5: Roma health governance in Spain: an assessment of policy implementation, Marta Escobar-Ballesta

• 4.1-O7: Fit, or not fit to fly? Medical and ethical dilemmas about migrants’ deportation following the European Council’s Dublin regulation, Sophie Durieux-Paillard

• 4.1-O8: Commercial health insurance: a barrier to health care access for non-European Union migrants in the Czech Republic, Karolína Dobiášová

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Presentations - Diseases and Interventions

• 1.4-O7: Interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type II diabetes in migrants and other under-served populations: a qualitative systematic review and narrative synthesis - Kate O’Donnell

• 2.1-O3: Type 2 diabetes in the Métis population of Alberta, Canada: a mixed methods study, M. Jill Sporidis

• 2.1-O5: The contribution of short sleep duration to ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands – the HELIUS study, Kenneth Anujuo

• 2.1-O7: Cardiovascular disease risk prediction in sub-Saharan African migrant and home populations – comparative analysis of risk algorithms in the RODAM study, Daniel Boateng

• 3.4-O3: How an innovative statutory and voluntary sector partnership met the increased need for refugee health assessments in the context of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme(27/50), Diane Nurse

• 3.4-O6: A qualitative intervention approach to increase the participation of Pakistani and Somali women in cervical cancer screening program in Norway, Samera Qureshi

• 3.4-O8: Access and utilization of cervical cancer screening services among four African immigrant communities in Finland: a qualitative study, Esther Idehen

• 5.5-O1: HIV and viral hepatitis knowledge and information needs among migrants from sub-Saharan Africa residing in Germany – results of a multi-center cross-sectional survey, Claudia Santos-Hövener

• 5.5-O4: Place mediated negotiation of vulnerability to the risk of HIV by migrant women of sub-Saharan African descent in New Zealand, Oluwatoyin Kolawole

• 5.5-O8: HIV and mobility in Australia: creating a coalition and a road map for action Josephine Shearer

• 6.5-O4: Management of hepatitis a cases among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in hosting facilities in Greece, January to September 2017, Kassiani Mellou

• 6.5-O5: Enhanced malaria diagnosis capacity in camps hosting migrants/refugees in Greece, Agis Terzidis

• 6.5-O6: A qualitative study of acceptability of rapid screening for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C among migrants in France (STRADA study), Martin Duracinsky

• 7.1-O1: Ethnic differences in the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and young people with type 1 diabetes – a prospective longitudinal study in the UK, Amal Khanolkar

• 7.1-O2: Physical activity, sedentary time, and fatness in a biethnic sample of young children, Paul Collings

• 7.1-O8: Parental beliefs of family health, diet, physical activity and weight: findings from a qualitative study in an ethnically diverse population in the UK, Marie Murphy

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Presentations - Research Methods

• 1.5-O5: Using data more effectively to describe ethnic health inequalities in the UK, Lynne Carter

• 1.5-O8: Afro-descendants in health studies in Colombia: What the researchers say, Yoseth Ariza-Araújo

• 2.3-O1: Gaining trust among the migrant and minority communities throughout the research process in Finland, Anneli Weiste-Paakkanen

• 2.3-O2: Is respondent driven sampling an effective strategy for recruiting research participants in superdiverse neighbourhoods in Germany?, Tilman Brand

• 2.3-O3: Unveiling participation of ethnic minorities and other stakeholders in heath research decision- making in Ireland, Maria Roura

• 2.3-O4: Participatory development and evaluation of a refugee health promotion programme in Germany, Christine Faerber

• 2.3-O5: Involve everyone! Developing a community engagement policy for research in an ethnically diverse city, Aamnah Rahman

• 2.3-O6: Recruitment and research participation of Black and ethnic minority citizens in health research in the UK: A toolkit for good practice, Raghu Raghavan

• 2.3-O8: Utilizing community-based participatory health research in a survey on sexual health with migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in Germany—lessons learned, Claudia Santos-Hövener

• 5.4-O2: The influence of contextual factors on granular ethnic classifications in Europe: results from the Heterogeneity/Granularity in Ethnic Classifications (HGEC) project, Emma Davidson

• 5.4-O5: Assessing the reliability of recording ethnic group at death registration in Scotland using a cross-check with the 2011 Census, Frank Dixon

• 5.4-O6: The challenge of using routinely collected data to compare use of health services by ethnic group in Scotland, Emma Mcnair

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Presentations - Parents and Children

• 2.4-O1: The influence of length of naturalisation on low birth weight among immigrants in Belgium, Judith Racape

• 2.4-O3: The role of ethnicity as determinant of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Latin American and the Caribbean, Marilia Mesenburg

• 2.4-O4: Gender disparities in infant immunization rates in Ontario, Canada across maternal countries of origin, Ariel Pulver

• 2.4-O5: Ethnic inequalities in stunting prevalence in Guatemala from 1995 to 2014, Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez

• 3.3-O3: Birthweight of babies born to migrant mothers – what role does destination country play?, Ingvil Krarup Sørbye

• 3.3-O4: Refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants and parenthood: living transnationally, Lisa Merry

• 3.3-O7: Extreme Dilemmas of Child Migration and Child Neglect in Ghana: An Endemic Proliferation of Child Beggary – Impact on Child Health, Manasseh Gowk

• 3.3-O8: Measuring social gradients in maternal and infant health for ethnic minorities – lessons learned from the Born in Bradford cohort in the UK, Eleonora Uphoff

• 4.4-O1: Access to Emergency Rooms of Italian and foreign women for conditions and complications related to pregnancy and reproduction: the case of five hospitals in Rome, Italy, 1999-2014, Livia Salvatori

• 4.4-O5: Discrimination against Romani women in maternity care in Europe – a mixed methods systematic review, Helen Watson

• 4.4-O6: Inequity in contraceptive care between refugees and other migrant women?: a retrospective study in Dutch general practice, Liselotte Raben

• 4.4-O7: Tailored communication interventions targeting Somali community in Sweden regarding MMR vaccination, Asha Jama

• 6.4-O6: Astonishing new insight into the relationship between health literacy and health practices of adolescents with Turkish migration background in Germany, Zeynep Islertas

• 7.3-O2: Access to Maternal and Child Health Services among Interstate Migrant Women in Maharashtra, India, Anjali Borhade

• 7.3-O3: Contraceptive use among immigrant and non-immigrant women seeking abortion care in Stockholm County, Sweden, Elin C. Larsson

• 7.3-O5: Japanese women’s experiences of prenatal screening and diagnostic testing for detecting foetal disorders in Austria, Yuki Seidler

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Presentations - Health Services and Providers

• 2.5-O2: Cross-border health services utilization and the role of trust in the Danish healthcare system and among immigrants in Denmark, Kristine Sorgenfri Hansen

• 2.5-O3: Transnational healthcare usage in superdiverse neighbourhoods: survey results from European countries, Hajo Zeeb

• 2.5-O5: Health care choices of immigrants in Canada: a study among adult Ghanaian immigrants in Calgary, Alberta, Evans Oppong

• 2.5-O6: Uptake of hearing-health services among older people of Pacific Island ethnicity in New Zealand, Ravi Reddy

• 3.5-O1: Undocumented and detained in Belgium: how access to health care should be granted for undocumented migrants in prisons?, Marie Dauvrin

• 3.5-O3: Opportunities and challenges of an ethnic doctor-patient-relationship by the example of physicians and patients of Turkish origin in Germany, Lisa Peppler

• 3.5-O8: Multilingualism in the hospital in Germany – demands, resources and practices, Mike Mösko

• 4.5-O2: Amsterdam Public Health, Global Health program – health professionals’ perception of implicit bias towards minority patients in health care in the Netherlands and Hungary. Katja Lanting

• 4.5-O3: A qualitative evaluation study of the Sleep Project for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent, UK: listening to practitioners’ experiences, Eleni Hatzidimitriadou

• 4.5-O5: Training in community interpreting: a systematic review of evaluated programmes, Jessica Terese Mueller

• 4.5-O6: Beyond medical practice: cultural and linguistic training of refugee doctors for integration and employment in the UK, Ceri Butler

• 5.2-O2: Appropriateness of ER utilization and emergency admissions of Romanians before and after their entry into European Union: the case of five large hospitals in Rome, Italy, Carolina Di Paolo

• 5.2-O4: Refugee health in Germany – access to health care and health promotion, Christine Faerber

• 5.2-O5: Access to health care among female Mixtec farmworkers of the Central Coast of California, United States, Lourdes Camarena-Ojinaga

• 5.2-O6: Governing healthy migrant families: migrants’ and health workers’ views and perceptions of child health and wellbeing services in the UK, Stuart Mcclean

• 5.2-O7: Unmet needs for healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods: results from the UPWEB study, Tilman Brand

• 5.2-O8: Access to healthcare and unmet health needs among Syrian asylum seekers in transit and at arrival in Norway, Jasmin Haj-Younes

• 6.2-O3: How to overcome language barriers in health examination surveys with migrant populations in Germany, Ursula Von Schenck

• 6.2-O4: Fully functioning international medical graduates are not free of charge, Patricia Haenel

• 6.2-O5: Health situation of migrant and minority nurses: a systematic review, Benjamin Schilgen

• 6.2-O7: Recruitment and retention of migrant blood donors in the Netherlands; an intervention mapping based development, Elisabeth Klinkenberg

• 6.2-O8: “I simply haven’t given it a thought before!” – health care providers’ experiences regarding cervical cancer screening among immigrant women in Norway- a qualitative study, Kathy Ainul Møen

• 7.5-O1: Access to health care for undocumented migrants in Belgium: why are we still waiting for progress?, Marie Dauvrin

• 7.5-O4: Italian guideline on “Health checks and protection pathways for migrants on arrival and while hosted in reception centres”, Maria Elena Tosti

• 7.5-O5: Healthcare for migrants in irregular situations: descriptive study on diagnoses, service use and costs at a voluntary clinic in Helsinki, Finland, Paula Tiittala

• 7.5-O6: Looking beyond access: an examination of health care experiences among Mexican migrants by migration phase and context, Ana Martinez-Donate

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Presentations - Exclusion, Discrimination and Exploitation

• 3.1-O1: The public health impacts of genocidal practice: a conceptual framework, Nicola Pocock

• 3.1-O4: Migration and the media in the UK: the effect on healthcare access for asylum seekers and refugees, Anna Black

• 3.1-O7: Modern slavery as a public health concern in the UK, Elizabeth Such

• 3.1-O8: Eastern European migrants: contributors to ‘modern slavery’ and a burden on the NHS in Britain, Fathi Bourmeche

• 5.1-O1: Labor exploitation and sexual violence in Latin America: the experience of Central American migrant women, Argentina Elisa Servin

• 5.1-O2: Acceptability of violence against women among the Roma population in Spain, Carmen Vives Cases

• 5.1-O3: Prevalence of cervical dysplasia among migrant women with female genital mutilation, Alicia Azuaga

• 5.1-O8: MiMi – violence prevention with migrants for migrants. Capacity building for refugee women and girls in Germany, Ramazan Salman

• 6.3-O3: The influence of neocolonialism, gender and social class in Latin American migrant women’s working conditions in Spain, Erica Briones-Vozmediano

• 6.3-O4: Victims or suspects? Identifying and assisting potentially trafficked fishermen: a qualitative study with key stakeholders and first responders in Thailand, Nicola Pocock

• 6.3-O6: Beyond silences; young people as minorities and migrant workers in the Scottish Highlands, Patricia Cacho

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Presentations - Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• 6.1-O1: Developing national mental health policies for refugees in Finland (PALOMA), Johanna Mäki-Opas

• 6.1-O3: Indigenous concepts of health and healing in Andean populations. How to model health beliefs and practices for the development of equitable health policies relevant to refugee, migrant and First Nations peoples, Elizabeth Currie

• 6.1-O5: Effective ways to address the unmet NCD needs of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, Sok Teng Tan

• 6.1-O6: Improving access to appropriate health care for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees in Greece, Lenio Capsaskis

• 6.1-O7: Health assessment and the right to health in Sweden: asylum seekers’ perspectives, Robert Jonzon

• 6.1-O8: Experiences of health care providers in reception centers with a patient-held personal health record for asylum seekers: a multi-sited qualitative study in a German federal state, Rosa Jahn

• 7.2-O2: Keeping healthy and accessing primary and preventive health services in Glasgow: the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers from Sub Saharan Africa, Anna Isaacs

• 7.2-O3: Services for refugees in Guatemala, Blanca Lucia Chávez Hernández

• 7.2-O4: Refugee health issues, challenges and responses in Malaysia: a qualitative study, Helena Legido-Quigley

• 7.2-O5: What has happened during the last two decades? A follow up study of unaccompanied Somali girls in Sweden, Magdalena Bjerneld

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Workshops

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• 1.9-W1: Ethnicity, race and Place Nexus – understanding migrant and minority ethnic health and wellbeing in rural areas in the Global North, Ewa Dabrowska-Miciula

• L2-1B – NHS England Asylum Health Pilot: Improving Access to Healthcare – What works best ? Professional or Lived Experience led GP Registration schemes, Ruth Passman

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• 4.7-W1: The challenge of training health professionals in health care oriented towards cultural and ethnic diversity, Ainhoa Ruiz-Azarola

• 4.8-W1: Racism, xenophobia and prejudice against migrants and ethnic minorities – imperatives for action for societal well-being, Nicola Pocock

• 4.9-W1: How did health monitoring in Germany respond to the refugee movement of 2015? A critical analysis, Claudia Santos-Hövener

• 5.9-W1: Right to care and mechanisms to resist restrictive policies: an activist workshop, Jessica Potter

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