Events & WCM Community

October Pods

October 14, 2025 - 6:00pm

If you want to learn more about trauma-informed care, stay tuned…

WCCHR hosts monthly Pods, where we go through patient cases and discuss the medical context, clinical interview techniques, and more with an expert physician. This month, Dr. Rios, trained in child and adolescent psychiatry, will go through two patient cases from WCCHR. Not surprisingly, she will be reviewing a child and adolescent case. Next, we’ll discuss as a group the differences in clinical presentation between children and adolescents, and explore how we can tailor medical care to each group’s needs. It’ll be a very interesting session, so we hope you can join!

When: Oct 14 6-7 PM
Where: LC 207/208 at 1300 York
Trader Joe’s snacks will be provided!
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/394zUVWhvqiNLt4j7

WCCHR 2025 Immigration & Asylum Medicine Summit

October 11, 2025 - 8:00am

Summit Flyer

The Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (WCCHR) is excited to host the 2025 Immigration & Asylum Medicine Summit on Saturday, October 11th, 2025. In light of ongoing immigration changes, we aim to bring together student-run asylum clinics to share ideas regarding how to adapt, problem-solve, and strengthen our community. Please save the date for our event, which is set to take place from 9 am - 3:30 pm on Weill Cornell’s Campus (1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10065).

Please register for the event here: tinyurl.com/WCCHRSummit

Highlights of this event include the following:

Keynote speaker by Jafar Novruzov, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner whose work focuses on integrative and trauma-informed mental health care. A former WCCHR client, he received a forensic medical evaluation in support of his own asylum case and now serves others by conducting forensic evaluations for asylum-seekers.
Asylum Medicine Career Panel: We are honored to host leaders in human rights work to discuss diverse paths for careers in human rights and asylum medicine.
Discussion on intersections between law and humanitarian crises
Poster session for student research on human rights work, immigration, and asylum medicine

Please submit poster session abstracts at tinyurl.com/wcchrposter
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday, September 26th at 11:59 PM

Small group breakout sessions for problem-solving and community-building, led by leaders from student-run asylum clinics
Breakfast and lunch provided. Breakfast will be served at 8:30-9 am before the event

We will be circulating our speaker lineup soon. In preparation for this event, we ask that representatives from student-run asylum clinics submit problems currently faced by their asylum clinics and other ideas for small group sessions here.

We hope you can join us in NYC to collaborate and share experiences with other student-run asylum clinics!

WCCHR Fall Training 2025

September 6, 2025 - 8:00am

Fall 2025 Training

WCCHR's Fall Training is set to take place on Saturday, September 6th from 8 am - 3 pm at 1300 York.

Please register for the training here: https://forms.gle/WCVW2C5mWiKW7z4A6

Note: We will be offering in-person training to those located on WCM's campus and in NYC. We prefer that volunteers attend in-person if possible as this promotes easier discussion, and lunch will be provided. For those located outside NYC, we will offer a Zoom option for the same training. If you are unable to make either, please email wcchr@med.cornell.edu and we will send a separate asynchronous training.

WCM students are also invited to attend this training. If you are a WCM student and unable to attend the in-person training, please email wcchr@med.cornell.edu

If interested in our Case Management arm, please also sign up on this form: https://forms.gle/XjHyGM8nwSAeL6866

WCCHR Speaker Series: LGBTQ+ Health and Immigration Law Today

June 10, 2025 - 6:00pm

Please join WCM's Clinic for Human Rights, Qlinic, and Queer Health Alliance on a discussion regarding LGBTQ+ health as it pertains to immigration law today. This conversation will be led by Nicholas O'Farrell, staff attorney at New York Legal Assistance Group's LGBTQ+ team. The team has served 770 LGBTQ+ clients on legal issues ranging from name changes to representing immigrants in applications for asylum. Nicholas will be using his expertise to bring us up to date on current challenges faced by LGBTQ+ clients today as well as how we can be better clinicians for them. The location will be on WCM's campus at 1300 York Ave. The exact location details will be sent later to those who RSVP. We will also have a Zoom option for those who cannot make it in person.

Note: Date has been changed to Tuesday, June 10th at 6 pm in LC 209/210!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRfJiGm-P7zzbrUNc23QLwMgRxTVF4...

May Speaker Series Flyer

WCCHR June Pods

June 5, 2025 - 6:00pm

Join us for our final Pods session of the spring on June 5th from 6-7 PM in LC207/208!

This student-led session will focus on gathering your feedback to help shape future Pods sessions into even more impactful, engaging spaces for our WCCHR community. We’ll also open the floor for discussion around our experiences with subjective evaluations, and how we—as students--can feel more comfortable and empowered as patient advocates during these encounters.

Snacks will be provided, and your insights will be incredibly valuable in guiding the continued growth of Pods. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

We hope to see you there!

WCCHR Events

WCCHR Pods

WCCHR Pods is a monthly discussion group discussing cases. WCCHR Pods session has ~5 clinician evaluators with ~10-15 students to learn about human rights advocacy, build skills for conducting forensic medical evaluations, and foster mentorship and community. We meet on the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 pm throughout the year. Please email wcchr@med.cornell.edu if you would like to be added to the listserv.

WCCHR Speaker Series

WCCHR Speaker Series are our monthly speaker events. In the past, we have invited speakers to discuss ethics in human rights and reproductive justice.

WCCHR Training

We hold Spring and Fall training sessions, once a semester, to train new evaluators and student volunteers.

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