Child Immigrant Health

Guest Bio: Janine Young, MD

Dr. Janine Young is a general pediatrician and Medical Director of one of the four refugee clinics in Colorado. She is on the board of the Colorado chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was an undergraduate at Columbia University, received her medical training at Harvard Medical School, and pediatric residency training at the Boston Combined Program and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.  

Her career focus is health care and access to care for new immigrants and refugees and has presented talks nationally and internationally regarding the development of standard of care medical screening guidelines for these populations.  She is the lead author of the pending Centers for Disease Control Medical Screening Guidelines for Pediatric Refugees, the AAP Clinical Report on management of female genital cutting in children, the American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant and Refugee Toolkit screening guidelines and has consulted for the Office of Refugee Resettlement on medical screening of unaccompanied children.

Currently, she serves as the Medical Advisor for the State of Colorado Refugee Services Program.  Also, she is a grantee working with the Minnesota Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control to develop a Refugee Centers of Excellence.