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Persistent Concerns over the Health of Immigration Detainees

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In July of last year we wrote about the activites of RPSM alumni Dr. Homer Venters to bring attention to the medical conditions in the detention facilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  Two reports issued in March – one from Human Rights Watch and the other from the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center – provide [...]

Homer Venters (RPSM IM 2007) on Immigration Detainee Health Care

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What do Social Medicine doctors do? Dr. Homer Venters, a 2007 RSPM Internal Medicine Graduate, is currently working as an Attending Physician at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and is a Public Health Fellow, New York University. During his residency at Montefiore, Dr. Venters worked with Bronx Defenders, a legal aid organization in [...]




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