Renee Hsia

Renee Hsia

As a recipient of a 2019-2020 Fulbright Schuman European Union Affairs award, Renee Hsia will spend the 2019-2020 academic year conducting research on how undocumented migrants access healthcare in Spain and Italy. She will be based at the University of Alicante. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, Master’s of Science from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Stanford University. She is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco.

Country:
United States
Home institution:
University of California
Objective:
Research in Public Health at University of Alicante (Spain), Research Division, Task Force on Migration, Diversity & Equity, Regional Health Unit, Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
Research project:
This project seeks to evaluate the regional variation in policy implemention regarding access to healthcare services for irregular migrants in the decentralized health systems of Spain and Italy. Current work in this field is limited by a focus on national policies (neglecting known reports that regional health authorities may deviate sharply from these); or centered around the initial phase of migrant health issues (e.g., public health screenings). This project will describe and synthesize the array of policy options at the local/regional level to improve access to health care for displaced migrants in their host countries.
Date:

March 4, 2020

Category:
The Fulbright Schuman Program, administered by the Fulbright Commission in Belgium and jointly financed by the U.S. State Department and the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission awards grants to European citizens to conduct research in the United States and to American citizens to conduct research in the European Union.