Eleanor Emery, MD
Program Officer, Center for Health Equity Education & Advocacy, Cambridge Health Alliance Medical
Officer-Physician, Department of Medicine, Northern Navajo Medical Center
ellie.emery@gmail.com
Shiprock, NM, USA

Area of expertise: Asylum-related medical education including student-run asylum clinics and trauma-informed care, community organizing for health professionals.

Eleanor (Ellie) Emery is an internist with the Department of Internal Medicine at Northern Navajo Medical Center, a Program Officer at the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at Cambridge Health Alliance, and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Ellie’s work includes clinical, advocacy, and research efforts focused on improving access to high quality, trauma-informed care for underserved communities. She has expertise in conducting forensic medical evaluations for people seeking asylum in the United States and is a member of the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Asylum Network. While in medical school, she served as the Executive Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights before going on to found the Massachusetts General Hospital Asylum Clinic and the Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative at UCLA.

Ellie has spoken on asylum and detention in multiple forums and trains other clinicians to conduct forensic medical evaluations. Ellie also serves as a Program Officer with the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, and in this capacity is exploring new ways to incorporate health justice and human rights into medical education.