The first installment features the work being done at the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Refugee Health Clinic (CAM). Staffed by acupuncturist Ellen Silver Highfield and Michael Grodin, a professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights at the School of Public Health (SPH), the clinic offers non-Western therapies to help treat torture survivors.  Through the use of traditional healing methods, botanicals, mind-body techniques and traditional Chinese medicine, Highfield and Grodin are helping refugees who have lived through or witnessed unspeakable horrors.

Tomorrow, the series will cover the Haitian Earthquake Long-term Pediatric Support (HELPS) team, an effort by the School of Medicine (MED) and Boston Medical Center to offer social and legal services to Haitians who fled following last year’s devastating earthquake.