Displaced Children: "Adverse Childhood Experiences Amongst Refugees from the Horn of Africa: Influences on Development, Attachment, and Risk/Resilience"
by Segen Zeray
Fall 2025 Health and the Unhoused
This event provides a forum for the Global Health community at UC San Diego to discuss relevant issues from an interdisciplinary perspective and increase community interaction. Don't miss the opportunity to engage with various organizations tabling at the event, offering resources and information to support your journey in Global Health.
The UC San Diego Global Health Program and Students for Global Health held our twenty third event in Quarterly Conversations in Global Health on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, at the Great Hall of I-House! This quarter’s panel spoke on the Health and the Unhoused.
Quarterly Conversations provides a forum for the Global Health community to come together to discuss relevant issues in the field from an interdisciplinary perspective and increase community interaction at UC San Diego.
Thank you to the Students for Global Health, the Global Health Program, I-House, the Center of Global Mental Health, and the School of Social Sciences for providing support and sponsoring this event today. We also want to give a big thank you to the Global Forum and their staff for providing the space for our event today at the Great Hall.
Finally, we would like to thank the events committee, led by Global Health student Suhani Pawar and Rebecca Sahagun from UC San Diego Students for Global Health, as well as our Global Health Advisors Jane Eichhorst and Brittany Wright, who all contributed to putting together this afternoon’s conversation.
Panel Recap
We were delighted to have Dr. Thomas Csordas, Director of UC San Diego’s Global Health Program, moderating the event as our Master of Ceremonies.
Dr. Jeffrey Schonberg
Lecturer at UC San Diego, Medical and Visual Anthropologist and Activist
Dr. Jeffrey Schonberg (PhD, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 2013) is a medical and visual anthropologist and activist who works with unhoused communities and on issues of violence and suffering. Dr. Schonberg is a recipient of the G.G Greenhouse 2022 Community Award from Alameda County (California) Healthcare for the Homeless, the Paul Farmer Global Citizenship Award from the Society for Public Anthropology, and a Committee on Teaching Excellence Award from the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. He works on themes of violence, poverty, drugs and visual representation. He is a lecturer and the Academic Coordinator in the Program on Global Health at the University of California, San Diego; and is a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Patty Gonzalez-Zuniga
Wound Clinic Founder and Director, CNICS Clinical Data Analyst, UCSD Owen Clinic
Dr. Patty Gonzalez-Zuniga is a Tijuana native, binational Clinician with more than 30 years of experience working with underserved and marginalized populations in the US-Mexico border region in the field of HIV Care, with interest in HIV prevention from a public health perspective, and the barriers and risk factors (individual, social and structural) that prevent access to prevention and care for individuals that recently acquired HIV infection in the drug-involved populations. She is a co-author in several publications.
In 2014 she became the Founder and Director of the Wound Clinic, and independent mobile street-based effort. She has worked with trainees of all levels, from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Canada and United States, and offered accessible education regarding the clinical aspects of infectious disease management, wound care, trauma informed, structural competence and compassion. She orients volunteer medical residents and students to the nuances and challenges of clinical care and accompaniment for the patients we served, lead outreach efforts to provide clinical care in challenging circumstances, debriefed regarding learning points from the day with learners to provide an overview of the US Mexico Border and principles of harm management. She has also served as a Board Member of Women and Harm Reduction International, the Latino Coalition Against COVID-19 and recently invited as speaker in Global Health Assembly organized by Doctors for Global Health in Santa Monica California Summer 2025.
Kate Pocock
Regional Director of Clinical Operations for Healthcare in Action
Kate Pocock, MHSPA-C is the Regional Director of Clinical Operations for Healthcare in Action (HIA) in San Diego and practices as a street medicine physician assistant. Prior to joining HIA, she was a Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine with USC Street Medicine in Los Angeles, California for three years. Kate has experience in street medicine operations and management, street medicine curriculum development and dissemination, quality improvement, and providing direct clinical care to unhoused patients. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and earned her M.H.S from Duke University (2013) as part of the Underserved Community Scholarship Program. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) with a concentration in Health Policy, Management, and Leadership at Johns Hopkins University.