Published in: International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2015

Summary: This paper explores key challenges clinicians face in delivering psychiatric care to refugee populations, particularly around language barriers, stigma, and system-level gaps in continuity of care.

For Dr. Sophia Banu, assistant professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, helping people has always been her passion. With immense compassion and empathy, Banu has traveled all over the world to help people during some of the most challenging times of their lives. In the Q&A below, she discusses her most recent aid trip to Bangladesh as well as her other aid trips.