Refugee Health Primer: Optimizing Primary Care for Refugee Newcomers

This is a collaboration between the University of Toronto, Department of Family & Community Medicine & Women’s College Hospital, Women’s College Hospital

WHEN: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 from 7:30 am – 5:00 pm

WHERE: Women’s College Hospital, (Auditorium) 76 Grenville St, Toronto, ON

Registration opening in May

Conference Details:

The Refugee Primer will provide clinicians with practical skills to address the unique needs of newly arrived refugees to Canada. This one-day conference will allow clinicians to identify common and serious health challenges that confront their refugee patients and describe an approach to management of these conditions. It will also help clinicians identify resources to address the existing resource gaps that arise in the care of refugee populations. The Primer will provide opportunities to health care providers to participate in and join existing networks of refugee serving clinicians.

We believe that the sharing of this knowledge will address systemic and structural health inequities faced by refugees. Embrace a community-serving mindset in the curriculum that pays special attention to health equity in considering population health outcomes and social &structural determinants of health, including training in patient and system advocacy.

Program and Speakers list coming soon.

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 7.5 Mainpro+® credits.

For any questions, please contact anna.loi@utoronto.ca.