Documenting Human Rights Violations Inside and Outside Our Borders

Vinay N. Kampalath, MD, DTM&H, is a global health and humanitarian policy specialist focused on emergency care and child health in crisis-affected settings. With over 15 years of experience across research, humanitarian action, public health, and clinical care in more than a dozen countries, Dr. Kampalath's research seeks to develop evidence-based health care delivery for populations in resource-denied settings, promote the development of emergency care systems globally through policy and praxis, and generate the evidentiary and normative basis to protect children living in these contexts. He has collaborated with the World Health Organization on the development of the H3 Package, a normative package of high-priority health services for humanitarian settings, and co-authored the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement. His work has appeared in the Lancet, BMJ Global Health, and PLOS Global Public Health. He is on the Editorial Boards of Conflict & Health, PLOS Global Public Health, and the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review. Dr. Kampalath is the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) and holds academic appointments at the University of Geneva and the University of Pennsylvania. He practices pediatric emergency medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he did his residency and fellowship. He earned his medical degree from Brown University and trained in tropical medicine and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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.