As both a physician and a human rights researcher, she spends roughly 20% of her time in the operating room and 80% of her time in research, working on advancing the health of forcibly displaced populations.
This research is taking place during a time in which the refugee crisis is worse than in the years following World War II. At the end of 2018 there were 70.8 million forcibly displaced individuals in the world including 3.5 million asylum seekers.
