Description:
This timely and practical book provides essential guidance for professionals-particularly those new to working in this context-on how to deliver compassionate, culturally responsive, and effective care to forcibly displaced individuals and communities.
Brief description: Dr. Emer McGowan is an Assistant Professor in Interprofessional Learning at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. She coordinates the interprofessional learning programme across the faculty, fostering collaborative practice among healthcare professionals in training. Dr. McGowan teaches in the Discipline of Physiotherapy, with a particular focus on refugee health. Her research and teaching interests center on the intersection of healthcare education and the needs of refugee populations. She is a collaborator on two EU-funded Erasmus+ projects: the Physiotherapy and Refugee Education Project (PREP) and the Persons with Refugee Experience Project - Interprofessional (PREP-IP). She is the lead author of a scoping review titled "Core competencies for physiotherapists working with refugees: a scoping review", published in Physiotherapy (2019, Vol 108, pp. 10-21). Dr. McGowan has also presented her work on refugee health at international conferences, including the World Physiotherapy Congresses in 2019 and 2021.