Cville Tulips: Creative Approaches to a Global Health Challenges

Cville Tulips and the International Family Medicine Clinic work with students, faculty, and staff across grounds to offer culturally responsive English, Health Education, and youth programming to recently arrived Afghan and Syrian women. Our humanitarian work embeds culturally responsive health education in English learning circles. Cville Tulips emerged as a local effort to ameliorate some of the painful consequences of a humanitarian crisis, the massive displacement of Afghan people. Our research aims to mitigate the barriers that Afghan and Syrian women face in accessing healthcare and to provide global opportunities for undergraduates, medical students and Residents.