The Refugee Healthcare System in Canada: Research & Policy Implications

Gabriel Fabreau is the founding co-director of Refugee Health YYC, a research, education and innovation platform at the University of Calgary O’Brien Institute for Public Health, focused on the health and healthcare of recently resettled refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Clinically, he cares for recently arrived refugees in Calgary at the Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic and as a hospitalist physician at the Peter Lougheed Centre, a tertiary teaching facility. Dr. Fabreau completed his residency training in Internal Medicine in Calgary, an academic fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He conducts health services and public health research on refugee health and high-need socially vulnerable populations.