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PRFDHR Seminar: Multisectoral Approaches to Improving Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Humanitarian Settings, Professor Claire Greene

There is consensus that humanitarian actors should respond to the mental health and psychosocial needs of displaced populations through multisectoral action and coordination. Multisectoral programming may enable the integration of mental health and psychosocial support with services designed to address critical social and structural determinants of mental health including poverty, stigma, safety and security, and social connectedness and cohesion. In this presentation, Professor M.

PRFDHR Seminar: Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens, Professor Yang-Yang Zhou

Professor Yang-Yang Zhou will be presenting the research of her new book project ‘Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens’. How are migrants received by host countries and communities? A substantial body of scholarship on migrant reception focuses almost exclusively on majority White citizens in the Global North and their (negative) attitudes towards migrants from the Global South.

The Startup Life: A Fireside Chat with Two Tech Founders

Join the Yale Latino Alumni Network - YLAN (YLAN) for a conversation with two Yale entrepreneurs in the thick of running ambitious tech startups. Norma Padron (PhD’14), Co-Founder and CEO of EmpiricaLab, and Ben Bartolome (YC’16), Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Walkthrough, will reflect on their career path before embarking on an entrepreneurial journey and share insights gained from building their companies and chasing their dreams. This session will be moderated by Wendy Maldonado (YC ‘93).

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PRFDHR Seminar: Climate change and migration, Professor Solomon Hsiang

Using social media data for over 2 billion individuals, Professor Hsiang uses new techniques to study whether climate change is likely to contribute to global migration flows.

Mondays at Beinecke: Empire and Resistance - Transisthmian Views of Central America with Nancy Escalante

A talk in conjunction with the new exhibition in the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America, curated by by Nancy Escalante, PhD student, Department of American Studies, Yale University.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3R92Ule

Gender & Policy Forum (Session 3)

SESSION 3
Sustainable Development
March 3rd 2023 – 2 pm to 3.30 pm (ET)

Public policy challenges: territory, society and gender

Scholars:
Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez,
Professor-Researcher, Center for Multidisciplinary and Regional Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Co-founder Gender, Society and Environment Research Network

Democratic Backsliding in Latin America

Countries in Latin America have enjoyed periods of democratic revival and suffered from periods of democratic decline since their independence. Recent events in Peru and Brazil add to the many cases in which democracy was about to break, but it did not.