Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma

04/02/2026

You still have time to register! The 1-day online course starts tomorrow!

Trauma is nearly universal. Trauma-informed training is not.

On April 3, 2026, Harvard Medical School Continuing Education, in collaboration with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital, will host a live online CME course:
Trauma-Informed Care: Optimizing the Role of TIC in Mainstream Clinical Practice

This one-day program equips clinicians with:
• Practical trauma-informed clinical tools
• Culturally grounded strategies for diverse patient populations
• Approaches for working with refugees and survivors of violence
• Self-care strategies to manage empathic distress

Earn up to 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

If you are a clinician encountering trauma in everyday practice, this course is designed for you.

Registration is now open. Secure your seat here:
https://learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/trauma-informed-care

03/13/2026

Trauma is nearly universal. Trauma-informed training is not.

On April 3, 2026, Harvard Medical School Continuing Education, in collaboration with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital, will host a live online CME course:
Trauma-Informed Care: Optimizing the Role of TIC in Mainstream Clinical Practice

This one-day program equips clinicians with:
• Practical trauma-informed clinical tools
• Culturally grounded strategies for diverse patient populations
• Approaches for working with refugees and survivors of violence
• Self-care strategies to manage empathic distress

Earn up to 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

If you are a clinician encountering trauma in everyday practice, this course is designed for you.

Registration is now open. Secure your seat here:
https://learn.hms.harvard.edu/programs/trauma-informed-care

01/19/2024

Global Experts Offer a Multidisciplinary Course on Trauma Informed Care at Harvard Medical School - https://mailchi.mp/3e5b41b8f426/harvard-medical-school-continuing-medical-education-new-trauma-informed-care-course-in-2024-only-day-only-10688461

12/15/2023

Harvard Medical School's Trauma-Informed Care (TIC): Optimizing the Role of TIC in Mainstream Clinical Practice - https://mailchi.mp/d8729784ebe0/harvard-medical-school-continuing-medical-education-new-trauma-informed-care-course-in-2024-only-day-only-10684129

Join us and healthcare providers from around the world for our Trauma-Informed Care one-day course providing advanced training on the role of TIC in caring for patients impacted by trauma.

Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education

10/11/2022

Tomorrow night only! All are welcome to Pedro Halffter's new opera premiere of Klara on Wednesday, October 12th at 8pm to 9:30pm in Paine Hall. We have a great program of operatic works, whose stories and text are inspired by refugees throughout history, and a discussion of HPRT/MGH’s work on benefitting women and children in Ukraine. Reserve your FREE TICKETS now at https://bit.ly/3TeqPj7 🎼

03/08/2022

Dear followers, we'd love to see your work at the North American Refugee Health Conference! Abstract submissions are open until March 18.

2022 North American Refugee Health Conference 2022 NARHC Registration now open! June 23-25, 2022Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, OH 44113 Join 700+ attendees at the North American Refugee Health Conference (NARHC), the annual 3-day conference for healthcare and resettlement professionals wor...

06/21/2020

The North American Refugee Health Conference is going virtual this year & registration is now open! Join health professionals at the largest conference in the world focused solely on caring for resettled refugee populations. 17 hours of CME credit is available for multiple professions. Previously resettled refugees working in the medical field can apply for a scholarship to attend. More information here: http://refugeesociety.org/north-american-refugee-health-conference

05/25/2020

The Psychosocial Effects of Torture, Mass Human Rights Violations, and Trauma: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework

"The present overview examines whether contemporary notions of trauma, and especially a focus on the category of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are adequate in assessing the multiple effects of such experiences. A model is proposed which suggests that torture and related abuses may challenge five core adaptive systems subserving the functions of "safety," "attachment," "justice," "identity-role," and "existential-meaning."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10221552/

05/25/2020

Healing in Camps in Guinea: A Psychosocial Program for Liberian and Sierra Leonean Survivors of Torture and War https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17115852/

"A psychosocial program was developed with 3 main goals: (a) to provide mental health care, (b) to train local refugee counselors, and (c) to raise community awareness about war trauma and mental health. Utilizing paraprofessional counselors under the close, on-site supervision of expatriate clinicians, the treatment model blended elements of Western and indigenous healing. The core component consisted of relationship-based supportive group counseling."

From 1999 to 2005, the Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) served Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors of torture and war living in the refugee camps of Guinea. A psychosocial program was developed with 3 main goals: (a) to provide mental health care, (b) to train local refugee co...

04/03/2020

Artists creating in this time offer aesthetic contemplation, a healing balm to the anesthetizing impact of daily news and a pathway to feeling the truth of our grief and hope. Here is a “letter from the future” written by acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome due to the Covid-19 outbreak, laying out the range of emotions people are likely to go through over the coming weeks.

An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown

04/01/2020

Thank you HPRT Alum Jeanne LeBlanc for sharing this resource on Remote psychological first aid during COVID-19.

English Manual and Guideline on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 23 Mar 2020 by IFRC