Yale Pediatrics – IRIS Run for Refugees
The Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic aims to provide a medical home for refugees arriving in the Greater New Haven area and to promote clinical innovation, education and research in refugee health care. For residents choosing to become a refugee clinic team member, the clinic aims to provide pediatric and medicine-pediatric residents with an in-depth clinical experience combined with didactics, research, health literacy and advocacy projects to become leaders in pediatric refugee health care. IRIS helps close to 2,000 refugees and immigrants each year. During the pandemic, IRIS helped more than 120 refugees and immigrants find work, provided $200,000 in rental assistance, taught students English, art, and music, helped adults with immigration legal needs, and fed 300+ families per week with essential groceries from our food pantry. The mission of IRIS is to enable refugees, immigrants, and other displaced people to establish new lives, regain hope, and contribute to the vitality of Conne
