PHR Chapter Advocacy Project: Asylum Seekers and COVID-19
Dear Local PHR Chapter Leadership Team,

The Advocacy Team of PHR’s Student Advisory Committee is starting a project/campaign to gather information about asylum seekers’ or refugees’ experiences in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.  We are hoping to ultimately collect these thoughts into an advocacy and policy document in order to relay the different experiences throughout the US, and possibly create a short video about this topic.

We are asking each chapter who would like to participate to fill out the following questionaire.  Any specific statistics from your clinic and/or specific examples(without names) are welcome additions but not mandatory and should be included in the free text box below or sent to phr.sab@gmail.com.

Please answer questions in regards to refugees or asylum seeker communities you work with but specifiy which group you are writing about.

Additionally, if you have or can create any video footage pertaining to this (whether it be an NGO worker, medical student, asylum seeker, refugee, undocumented immigrant, B-roll, physician who works with asylum seekers or complexes forensic evaluations etc.), please send any clips to us! Remember zoom recordings count. Be creative! We will edit everything into a final piece. We can only do this with your help! We want to tell your stories.

When we advocate we advocate based on evidence. Your answers to this survey testify to your experience during the pandemic and allow us to advocate on behalf of the refugees and asylum seekers you serve.

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What is your name(s)?
What PHR Chapter are you from?
What email should we use to contact you if we have questions?
Give us background information: What does the typical refugee look like in your local area?  What country(s) are they from? What types of things are they fleeing? How did they get the US?
If your team completes forensic evaluations for asylum seekers, were there any differences in your work prior to the pandemic as compared to currently? Describe in detail.
How did asylum seekers/refugees access testing and treatment for COVID-19 during the pandemic? Did they go to a primary care physician, the Emergency Department? What struggles did refugees/asylum seekers face that other groups didn’t in accessing care?
Did some of the asylum seekers/refugees you work with choose not to access COVID-19 related care? If so, why?
How did asylum seekers and refugees in your region access healthcare for chronic and acute conditions during the pandemic( care unrelated to COVID-19 i.e. diabetes, CAD, sickle cell, vaccinations)? What struggles did refugees face that other groups didn’t?
Do refugees in your area receive initial health asessments upon arrival? If yes, were they completed for newer arrivals? Were vaccinations given?
How was telemedicine as a replacement for traditional in person medical consultation accessible to refugees seeking care?  How did refugee families view telemedicine as a way to maintain their healthcare, seek COVID-19 related care, or as a way to seek care referrals for urgent conditions? What were the barriers this population faced with using telemedicine?
Did refugees/asylum seekers receive public information from state and local governments regarding COVID-19 and COVID-19 local public directives? Was it accessible for them? If not, where did they get their information? Was it appropriate or accurate information?
How has federal, state, or local governmental policies affected refugees or asylum seekers in your community?
Did governmental agencies take refugees/asylum seekers into account with public information disseminated during COVID-19, quarantine policies, ect? What were the barriers refugees faced in following quarantine directives?
Free text box: Is there any other information you would like to share with us? Statistics from your clinic?
If you wish, use this space to share a story of a refugee/asylum seeker or healthcare worker trying to help this population during COVID-19.  Remember not to use any personal identifiers!
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