Health Inequities for Undocumented Immigrants

Posted on April 6, 2009

Tuesday April 14, 12:00pm – 1:00pm

Carr Auditorium

San Francisco General Hospital

1001 Potrero Avenue

Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking at this presentation on the growing health crisis for undocumented workers in the United States, highlighting issues like health and human rights in prison, occupational injuries, and social vulnerabilities leading to health inequities for this at-risk group. Orner will discuss some of these inequities raised by Underground America. He will be joined by journalist Sandra Hernandez and, via satellite, by one of the undocumented immigrants depicted in the book.

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Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.