Documenting Human Rights Violations Inside and Outside Our Borders

Vinay N. Kampalath, MD, DTM&H is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kampalath has worked in several development and humanitarian contexts as a clinician and educator, and is a researcher studying humanitarian emergencies, universal health coverage, and emergency care development. Dr. Kampalath earned his medical degree at Brown University and finished his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine and global health at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He earned his diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 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.