Drs. Henna Qureshi and Arshia Qaadir of Inova Health System present on the social determinants of health and policy for resource allocation in immigrant and refugee health.
Arshia Qaadir is a pediatrician at the Inova Cares Clinic for Children in Falls Church. Prior to this, she was a community pediatrician in private practice for several years. She has been involved in child health advocacy through the Virginia Chapter of the AAP, serving as co-chair for Government Affairs and Child Immigrant Health since 2018. Her advocacy work included collaborative efforts toward establishment of the Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) and lobbying at the state legislature on various bills related to children’s health policy, including gun violence prevention, nutritional access, tobacco prevention and access to health coverage.
Dr.Henna Qureshi is a board certified pediatrician at the Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in Virginia as well as the Pediatric Associate Clerkship Director for UVA Medicine Inova campus. She also serves as adjunct faculty at Georgetown School of Medicine. Dr. Qureshi performs volunteer humanitarian work, disaster relief work, and refugee medicine. She serves on the Board of Directors of Obat Helpers, as the Pediatric chair for the NGO MedGlobal, as co-lead of the Inova Pediatric Advocacy Committee, and as a Global Health Advisor for Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children’s Pediatric Residency program. Globally, Dr. Qureshi has worked in Haiti, Central America, Pakistan, Malawi, and Jordan and Greece, caring for Syrian Refugees. Over the last few years, her international work has focused on the Rohingya population
