Description: Focusing on that trust--and its deficit--in camps, urban slums, hospitals, and clinics, Zaman combines personal and journalistic accounts of refugees with broad systemic analysis on global health care access to compare problems and solutions in different regions and provide holistic policy and practice recommendations for refugees, internally displaced persons, and stateless populations.
Brief description: Muhammad H. Zaman (BOSTON, MA) is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. He is director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. He is the author of Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs and Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle between People and Pathogens.
Review Quotes: The book should be on the reading list of all NGOs working with refugees and displaced and stateless persons....Accessible and engrossing.
--Anna A. Helm, BS, MPH (Multnomah County), 2023, (c) Doody's Review Service