GEMA HTF's Humanitarian Research Series: Health and Human Rights

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH, is the Associate Chair of Emergency Population Health and Innovation for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. In her current role, Dr. Parmar navigates the continuum between population health and acute emergency care, leading emergency department efforts to innovate healthcare delivery models and optimize patient care efforts. During the first 16 years of her career, Dr. Parmar's research focused on the study of health and human rights violations in refugees and internally displaced populations. Dr. Parmar has worked in multiple settings on issues such as emergency care deliver, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, and primary care provision. She coordinated the investigation of the Rohingya genocide with Physicians for Human Rights in 2018, and most recently has worked to extend care for non-communicable disease to Syrian refugees living in Jordan and internally displaced persons in Myanmar. She also has conducted research on morbidity and mortality among individuals detained in ICE detention facilities nationwide. Dr. Parmar was the Chief of the Division of Social and Global Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine for 8 years prior to joining Harbor UCLA.